United States Quotes - Page 4

• If a President of the United States ever lied to the American people, he should resign.

  William J. Clinton

  Stupid, Humorous, People

  "IMPEACHMENT; The Debate on Articles of Impeachment Against President Clinton". www.nytimes.com. December 19, 1998.

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• As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else. It's being drawn to Iraq. You know what? I want to keep it on Iraq. I don't want the eye to come back to the United States.

  Rick Santorum

  Eye, Somewhere Else, Iraq

  "Santorum defends Iraq war" by Alison Hawkes of Bucks County Courier Times, October 17, 2006.

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• George W. Bush is the first Catholic president of the United States.

  Rick Santorum

  Catholic, President, Firsts

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• Right now, the Anglo people are desperately trying to hold on to the United States, like they tried to hold on to Africa

  Edward James Olmos

  People, Trying, Right Now

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• You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it

  Edward James Olmos

  Two, Years, Diversity

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• Everyone town of 100,000 in the United States should have a Classical Theater supported by the town, or the state of the county, or the Federal Government, as they have in every civilized country

  Tony Randall

  Country, Government, Should Have

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• There's a woman in the United States who predicted the plane we were traveling on would crash. Now, a lot of people would like to think we were scared into saying a prayer. What we did actually--we drank.

  Ringo Starr

  Prayer, Thinking, People

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• We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would, except it would put them on the same side as the United States.

  Ann Coulter

  War, Fighting, America

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• The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.

  Gertrude Stein

  Mother, Country, War

  Gertrude Stein (1974). “How Writing Is Written”

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• The division of the United States into federations of equal force was decided long before the Civil War by the high financial powers of Europe. These bankers were afraid that the United States, if they remained in one block and as one nation, would attain economic and financial independence, which would upset their financial domination over the world. The voice of the Rothschilds prevailed... Therefore they sent their emissaries into the field to exploit the question of slavery and to open an abyss between the two sections of the Union.

  Otto von Bismarck

  War, Block, Europe

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• I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money

  Arthur Godfrey

  Funny, Money, Humor

  Quoted in Reader's Digest, Oct. 1951

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• Even while we may at times disagree, as friends sometimes will, the bonds between the United States and Israel are unbreakable and the commitment of the United States to the security of Israel is ironclad.

  Barack Obama

  Commitment, Israel, May

  Remarks by the President at the AIPAC Policy Conference 2011 in Walter E. Washington Convention Center Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 22, 2011.

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• The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is eager to enter into close relationship with the Bank for International Settlements....The conclusion is impossible to escape that the State and Treasury Departments are willing to pool the banking system of Europe and America, setting up a world financial power independent of and above the Government of the United States....The United States under present conditions will be transformed from the most active of manufacturing nations into a consuming and importing nation with a balance of trade against it.

  Louis Thomas McFadden

  Money, New York, Independent

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• Food culture in the United States has long been cast as the property of a privileged class. It is nothing of the kind. Culture is the property of a species.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Animal, Vegetables, Food Culture

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.16, Faber & Faber

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• The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lit under it, there's no limit to the power it can generate.

  Winston Churchill

  Fire, Politics, Limits

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• To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Passion, Black, One Day

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• They said we were soft, that we would not fight, that we could not win. We are not a warlike nation. We do not go to war for gain or for territory; we go to war for principles, and we produce young men like these. I think I told every one of them that I would rather have that medal, the Congressional Medal of Honor, than to be President of the United States.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Fighting, Winning

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• The American people need a strong leader who has the experience and the judgment to be the next President of the United States, and that man is John McCain.

  Katie Barberi

  Strong, Men, People

  "McCain Counters Powell Endorsement With Soap Opera Actress" by Nico Pitney, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2008.

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• The corn that is B something 5 corn thats been genetically altered in the United States, it cant reproduce but it has huge kernels, its very sweet and its wonderful but the winds have blown this across into Mexico. And so the Mexican corn is being infected with the inability to reproduce.

  Nick Nolte

  Sweet, Wind, Mexican

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• This great imperialistic world called the United States has made us believe that an Oscar is the most important thing in the world for an actor. But if you think about it for five minutes you realise it cant be.

  Javier Bardem

  Believe, Thinking, Important

  "'Why am I doing this absurd job?'" by Kristin Hohenadel, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2001.

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• Hip-hop went through different stages, from the beginning in the streets of the Bronx, to the whole Tri-State area and then to the rest of the United States and the rest of the world.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Hip Hop, Different, World

  "Q & A: Afrika Bambaataa Spins Hip-Hop Knowledge". Q&A with Simon McCormack, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 26, 2010.

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• I would be the worst president in the history of the United States. Unless you want the apocalypse to happen really soon then yes, I'll run for president.

  Darren Criss

  Running, President, Would Be

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• This law represents a cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means completed--a structure intended to lessen the force of possible future depressions, to act as a protection to future administrations of the Government against the necessity of going deeply into debt to furnish relief to the needy--a law to flatten out the peaks and valleys of deflation and of inflation--in other words, a law that will take care of human needs and at the same time provide for the United States an economic structure of vastly greater soundness.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Mean, Government, Law

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• I am not the president; instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States.

  Martin Sheen

  Office, House, President

  "Commentary A Celebrity, but First a Citizen". articles.latimes.com. March 17, 2003.

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• We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  States, United

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