United States Quotes - Page 6

• I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States

  George W. Bush

  Oath Of Office, President, Constitution Of The United States

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• This flick is all I have to say about being 17, the United States Navy, Christmas and the Fourth of July.

  Kenneth Anger

  July, Navy, Fourth

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• Where you live in the United States shouldn't determine how long and how healthy you live - but it does, far more than it should.

  Tom Frieden

  Long, Healthy, Where You Live

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• This is a spiritual war. And the Father of Lies has his sights on what you would think the Father of Lies would have his sights on: a good, decent, powerful, influential country - the United States of America. If you were Satan, who would you attack in this day and age?

  Rick Santorum

  Spiritual, Country, Powerful

  "Does Santorum Believe Obama Is Part of a Satanic Plot?" by David Corn, www.motherjones.com. February 22, 2012.

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• This is my maiden voyage. My first speech since I was the president of the United States and I couldn't think of a better place to give it than Calgary, Canada.

  George W. Bush

  Thinking, Giving, President

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• I think all of us have a sense if we imagine the kind of world we would face if the people who bombed the mess hall in Mosul, or the people who did the bombing in Spain, or the people who attacked the United States in New York, shot down the plane over Pennsylvania and attacked the Pentagon, the people who cut off peoples' heads on television to intimidate, to frighten indeed the word 'terrorized' is just that. Its purpose is to terrorize, to alter behavior, to make people be something other than that which they want to be.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  New York, Cutting, Thinking

  "Surprise Trip for Donald Rumsfeld; Interview With Brigadier General James Marks; Christian in Iraq". "News from CNN", www.cnn.com. December 24, 2004.

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• The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.

  Arthur L. Williams, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• States like these [Iran, Iraq, North Korae], and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger. They could provide these arms to terrorists, giving them the means to match their hatred. They could attack our allies or attempt to blackmail the United States. In any of these cases, the price of indifference would be catastrophic.

  George W. Bush

  Mean, Iraq, Mass Destruction

  First (Official) Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 29 January 2002

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• All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: The United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you.

  George W. Bush

  Liberty, Oppression, Hopelessness

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2005

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• We've seen their kind before. The terrorists are the heirs to fascism. They have the same wield of power, the same disdain for the individual, the same mad global ambitions. And they will be dealt with in just the same way. Like all fascists, the terrorists can not be appeased. They must be defeated. This struggle will not end in a truce or a treaty. It will end in victory for the United States, our friends and for the cause of freedom.

  George W. Bush

  Struggle, Ambition, Mad

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• We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States.

  Jay Inslee

  Oil, Addiction, Needs

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• Today at Pearl Harbor, veterans are gathering to pay tribute to the young men they remember who never escaped the sunken ships. And over the years, some Pearl Harbor veterans have made a last request. They ask that their ashes be brought down and placed inside the USS Arizona. After the long lives given them, they wanted to rest besides the best men they ever knew. Such loyalty and love remain the greatest strength of the United States Navy.

  George W. Bush

  Loyalty, Men, Years

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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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• I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.

  Harold Bloom

  Study, States, United

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• It is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies.

  George F. Kennan

  Russia, Usa, America

  "The Sources of Soviet Conduct," Foreign Affairs, July 1947

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• Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.

  Angela Carter

  Dream, Hollywood, Literature

  Angela Carter (1993). “Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings”, Vintage Books

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• Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.

  Ishmael Reed

  Baseball, Chicago, Cubs

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• A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United STates was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Virginia, America, Independence

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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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• 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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• Americans of all ages, all stations in life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations. There are not only commercial and industrial associations in which all take part, but others of a thousand different types-religious, moral, serious, futile, very general and very limited, immensely large and very minute....At the head of any new undertaking, where in France you would find the government or in England some territorial magnate, in the United States you are sure to find an association.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Religious, Government, Forever

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the Soviet Union - like public housing in the United States - look decrepit within a year or two of their construction.

  Milton Friedman

  Years, Two, Political

  Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman (1990). “Free to Choose: A Personal Statement”, p.42, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• We have, in this country, one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board. This evil institution has impoverished the people of the United States and has practically bankrupted our government. It has done this through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it.

  Louis Thomas McFadden

  Country, Government, Practice

  "100 Years Is Enough: Time to Make the Fed a Public Utility" by Ellen Brown, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 23, 2013.

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• Virtually everywhere in the world, people still wake up and want their country to be more like the United States than any other nation. We are the envy of the world because of what we stand for and how our democratic process, flawed as it may often seem to be, operates. We should take pride in that.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Country, Pride, People

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