United States Quotes - Page 32

• The United States is not overdeployed or overextended with deployments in 150 countries on any given year. On any given week we have about 65 deployments.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Country, Years, Deployment

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• The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education.

  Jeff Bingaman

  Country, Usa, World

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• It is not so much the United States that is trying to push the European Union in one direction or another, it is developing nations as a whole that are pushing the United States and Europe to open their markets a little more.

  Pascal Lamy

  One Direction, Europe, Trying

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• As long as we're tied to Middle Eastern oil we're tied to Middle Eastern politics. We're hostages to the terrorists and nutcases who want to wipe out Israel and the United States because we support Israel.

  Ben Bova

  Israel, Oil, Long

  Ben Bova (2006). “Powersat”, p.141, Macmillan

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• One out of every five page views in the United States is on Facebook!

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Views, Pages, Five

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• Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.

  T Bone Burnett

  Pregnancy, Civilization, Competition

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• My father was a basketball player, so I loved basketball because he did. It was a direct transference. But, more than that, basketball, in the United States at least, plays the same function that soccer does everyone else in the world. It's the sport of poverty. It's the sport born of poverty. It's the cheapest sport.

  Sherman Alexie

  Basketball, Soccer, Sports

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• American critics of welfare statism are often surprised to learn that countries like West Germany, with a much more comprehensive welfare state and a statistically larger public sector, have fewer government employees per capita than the United States does.

  Robert Kuttner

  Country, Government, West Germany

  Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.23, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• I think I have signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?

  Vida Blue

  Children, Men, Thinking

  Vida Blue, Bill Libby (1972). “Vida: His Own Story”, Prentice Hall

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• I don't think Russia will follow the United States's way. I don't think Russia will follow the French way. I'm sure Russia will find its own way.

  Anatoly Chubais

  Thinking, Russia, Way

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• China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks.

  Virginia Foxx

  Forgiveness, Government, Ideas

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• I think a commission set up to examine slavery and the consequences of it, would probably be a very fruitful, important dialogue for the United States to be involved in.

  Bob Matsui

  Thinking, Important, Slavery

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• I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the United States. Making bigger tournaments, more interesting events. Making it a respectable profession for young people to be able to pursue in the future.

  Maurice Ashley

  Games, Interesting, People

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• Many of the crisis problems which are considered disasters in the United States would only be normal, everyday living conditions in most of Asia.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Everyday, Missionary, Asia

  K. P. Yohannan (2004). “Revolution in World Missions”, Gfa Books

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• I thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United States.

  Richard Ernst

  Jobs, Usa, Forever

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• Contrary to a tenacious myth, France is not owned by California pension funds or the Bank of China, any more than the United States belongs to Japanese and German investors. The fear of getting into such a predicament is so strong today that fantasy often outstrips reality. The reality is that inequality with respect to capital is a far greater domestic issue than it is an international one.

  Thomas Piketty

  Strong, Reality, California

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• And I think Hillary Clinton is able to be elected president of the United States.

  Joe Biden

  Thinking, President, Able

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• Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.

  Don Baylor

  Texas, People, Everyday

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• Any Mexican, would recognise that Mexico was abused, undervalued and downgraded in international circles, most of all by the United States.

  Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

  Circles, Mexican, Mexico

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• Only six electronic digital computers would be required to satisfy the computing needs of the entire United States.

  Howard Aiken

  Would Be, Needs, Digital

  " "Aug. 7, 1944: Harvard, Ibm Dedicate Mark I Computer" by Randy Alfred, www.wired.com. August 7, 2008.

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• And its very strange, but I think there is something very common - not only in Celtic music - but there is a factor or element in Celtic music that is similar in music that we find in Japan, the United States, Europe, and even China and other Asian countries.

  Nobuo Uematsu

  Country, Thinking, Japan

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• But there are 90 million gun owners in the United States. Only 3.5 million want the insurance and magazines and the various things you get for joining the NRA.

  Michael D. Barnes

  Gun, Joining, Magazines

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• The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an occupation force than it did before.

  Jon Lee Anderson

  Medicine, Looks, Occupation

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• In my proper character, an officer of the United States army.

  Zebulon Pike

  Character, Army, Officers

  "The Boy's Story of Zebulon M. Pike".

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• The United States is broke — fiscally, morally, intellectually — and the Fed has incited a global currency war Japan just signed up, the Brazilians and Chinese are angry, and the German-dominated euro zone is crumbling that will soon overwhelm it. When the latest bubble pops, there will be nothing to stop the collapse. If this sounds like advice to get out of the markets and hide out in cash, it is.

  David Stockman

  War, Japan, Advice

  "State-Wrecked: The Corruption of Capitalism in America" by David A. Stockman, www.nytimes.com. March 30, 2013.

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