United States Quotes - Page 31

• If you want a simple model for predicting the unemployment rate in the United States over the next few years, here it is: It will be what Greenspan wants it to be, plus or minus a random error reflecting the fact that he is not quite God.

  Paul Krugman

  Simple, Errors, Years

  Paul Krugman (2010). “The Accidental Theorist: And Other Dispatches from the Dismal Science”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country — and we haven't seen them since.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, People, Investing

  Gore Vidal (2013). “Gore Vidal's State of the Union: Nation Essays 1958-2005”, p.3, The Nation Co. LP

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• In almost every case (where the United States has fought wars) our overwhelming commitment to freedom, democracy and human rights has required us to support those regimes that would deny freedom, democracy and human rights to their own people.

  Gore Vidal

  War, Commitment, Rights

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• In the United States women develop MS at approximately twice the rate men do, and no one can explain why women are affected most often from the waist down

  Annette Funicello

  Men, Rate, Affected

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• In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don’t care about my cinema. In Europe they don’t know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am only a maverick!

  Jonas Mekas

  Europe, Care, Cinema

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• I think we can end the divisions within the United States. What I think is quite clear is that we can work together in the last analysis. And that what has been going on with the United States over the period of that last three years, the divisions, the violence, the disenchantment with our society, the divisions - whether it's between blacks and whites, between the poor and the more affluent, or between age groups, or in the war in Vietnam - that we can work together. We are a great country, an unselfish country and a compassionate country. And I intend to make that my basis for running.

  Robert Kennedy

  Running, Country, War

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• In Matthew, chapter 6, verse 21, the scriptures teach us that where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. My friends, any man who aspires to be our president should keep both his treasure and his heart in the United States of America.

  Ted Strickland

  Heart, Men, America

  The Former Governor’s DNC Remarks, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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• Finally it should be the earnest wish and paramount aim of the military administration to win the confidence, respect, and affection of the inhabitants of the Philippines by assuring them in every possible way that full measure of individual rights and liberties which is the heritage of free peoples, and by proving to them that the mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation substituting the mild sway of justice and right for arbitrary rule.

  William McKinley

  Military, Winning, Rights

  McKinley's Benevolent Assimilation Proclamation, December 21, 1898.

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• He who takes the oath today to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States only assumes the solemn obligation which every patriotic citizen . . . should share with him. . . . Your every voter, as surely as your Chief Magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.

  Grover Cleveland

  Patriotic, Exercise, Different

  Grover Cleveland, United States. President (1885-1889 : Cleveland), United States. President (1893-1897 : Cleveland) (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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• Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Cutting, America, People

  Time magazine, September 09, 1985.

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• Without good grammar, the United States would have lost World War II.

  Dave Barry

  War, World, Grammar

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• If the United States is to protect itself from the economic and the political threats created by this excessive dependence, we must reduce our reliance on foreign energy sources and on foreign oil as quickly and as efficiently as possible.

  John Shadegg

  Oil, Political, Energy

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• More than one-third of Mexicans in the United States own property in Mexico, nearly 80 percent send money home and 25 percent have a spouse in Mexico. Assimilation and becoming an American citizen are not the objective for many of them.

  John Shadegg

  Home, Citizens, Mexico

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• In fact, street gangs are the primary distributor of illegal drugs in the United States.

  Dave Reichert

  Drug, Facts, Gang

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• Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell

  Irving Layton

  Usa, Looks, Canada

  Irving Layton (1969). “The whole bloody bird: obs, aphs & pomes”

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• When asked to make the formal declaration that I did not intend to overthrow the Constitution of the United States, I was fool enough to reply that I had no such purpose, but that were I to do it by mistake I should be inexpressibly contrite.

  Peter Medawar

  Mistake, Constitution Of The United States, Purpose

  "Memoir of a thinking radish: an autobiography". Book by Peter Medawar, Oxford University Press, p. 117, 1986.

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• Corn is the leading food and feed crop of the United States in geographic range of production, acreage, and quantity of product. The vital importance of a large acreage of this crop, properly cared for, therefore, is obvious.

  David F. Houston

  Corn, Crops, Range

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• Once there were two brothers. One ran away to sea; the other was elected vice president of the United States. And nothing was heard of either of them again.

  Thomas R. Marshall

  Brother, Sea, Two

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• Everyone should understand that when they add their friends to Facebook, they are doing free work for United States intelligence agencies in building this database for them.

  Julian Assange

  Agency, Add, Databases

  "WikiLeaks revelations only tip of iceberg - Assange". Interview with Laura Emmett, www.rt.com. May 2, 2011.

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• Now, is it the case that Facebook is actually run by U.S. intelligence? No, it's not like that. It's simply that U.S. intelligence is able to bring to bear legal and political pressure on them. And it's costly for them to hand out records one by one, so they have automated the process. Everyone should understand that when they add their friends to Facebook, they are doing free work for United States intelligence agencies in building this database for them.

  Julian Assange

  Running, Agency, Hands

  "WikiLeaks revelations only tip of iceberg - Assange". Interview with Laura Emmett, www.rt.com. May 2, 2011.

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• But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Country, Self, Important

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• Surely nowhere in the world do oppression and persecution based solely on the color of the skin appear more hateful and hideous than in the capital of the United States, because the chasm between the principles upon which this Government was founded, in which it still professes to believe, and those which are daily practiced under the protection of the flag, yawn so wide and deep.

  Mary Church Terrell

  Believe, Color, Government

  What It Means to be Colored in Capital of the U.S., delivered 10 October 1906, United Women's Club, Washington, D.C.

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• Eighty-six percent of the gun death of children under the age of 14 internationally is right here in the United States of America. It is madness.

  Nita Lowey

  Children, Gun, America

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• Nobody's going to elect me president of the United States.

  Michael Bloomberg

  President, States, United

  "Rather Says Bloomberg Ruled Out White House Bid". Interview with Dan Rather, cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com. August 17, 2007.

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• As much progress as we think we've made with legislation, litigation and education, anti-Semitism still continues to be the No. 2 hate crime in the United States. You can't eliminate it, but you can try to keep a lid on it.

  Abraham Foxman

  Hate, Thinking, Progress

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