United Quotes - Page 40

• The United States stock market, the most iconic market in global capitalism, is rigged.

  Michael Lewis

  United States, Capitalism, Iconic

  "Is the U.S. stock market rigged?". "60 Minutes" with Steve Kroft, www.cbsnews.com. March 30, 2014.

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• Playing for Manchester United is something that most people want and very few people do - but there is no harm in having a dream as long as you are realistic with it.

  David Gill

  Dream, Long, People

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• Whenever I speak at the United Nations, UNICEF or elsewhere to raise awareness of the continual and rampant recruitment of children in wars around the world, I come to realize that I still do not fully understand how I could have possibly survived the civil war in my country, Sierra Leone.

  Ishmael Beah

  Country, Children, War

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• I am Michael, and I am part English, Irish, German, and Scottish, sort of a virtual United Nations.

  Michael Scott

  Scottish, United Nations, Nations

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• The United States has the best, deepest, widest, and most transparent capital markets in the world which give you, the investor, the ability to buy and sell large amounts at very cheap prices. That is a good thing.

  Jamie Dimon

  Giving, World, United States

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• I'm convinced after spending three weeks in China and Tibet, unless the United States gets its act together, our grandchildren will be living in a world dominated by the People's Republic. China is simply inexorable in its pursuit of wealth, growth and power. It cares little about human rights, democracy, labor protections, fair trade rules or the environment. It is relentless in advancing its national interests.

  Mort Kondracke

  Grandchildren, Rights, People

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• President Roosevelt and President Truman and President Eisenhower had the same experience, they all made the effort to get along with the Russians. But every time, finally it failed. And the reason it failed was because the Communists are determined to destroy us, and regardless of what hand of friendship we may hold out or what arguments we may put up, the only thing that will make that decisive difference is the strength of the United States.

  John F. Kennedy

  Hands, Differences, Effort

  Speech by Senator John F. Kennedy, Democratic Rally, George Washington High School Stadium, Alexandria, VA, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. August 24, 1960.

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• And lastly, Chairman Khrushchev has compared the United States to a worn-out runner living on its past performance, and stated that the Soviet Union would out-produce the United States by 1970. Without wishing to trade hyperbole with the Chairman, I do suggest that he reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he his caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.

  John F. Kennedy

  Wall, Past, Ideas

  News Conferences, www.jfklibrary.org. June 28, 1961.

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• Suppose that thou hast detached thyself from the natural unity... yet here there is this beautiful provision, that it is in thy power again to unite thyself. God has allowed this to no other part, after it has been separated and cut asunder, to come together again. ...he has distinguished man, for he has put it in his power not to be separated at all from the universal ...he has allowed him to be returned and to be united and to resume his place as a part.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Beautiful, Cutting, Men

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book VIII, (34), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• Poverty" Pitt exclaimed "is no disgrace but it is damned annoying." In the contemporary United States it is not annoying but it is a disgrace.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Poverty, United States, Annoying

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.242, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If the United States and the United Nations truly want peace and security let them fulfill the hopes of the common people everywhere - let them work together to accomplish on a worldwide scale, precisely the kind of democratic association of free people which characterizes the Soviet Union today.

  Paul Robeson

  People, Together, Want

  Daily Worker, November 15, 1945.

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• The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.

  Bill Vaughan

  Forgiveness, Character, United States

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• The most formidable of all the ills that threaten the future of the Union arises from the presence of a black population upon its territory; and in contemplating the cause of the present embarrassments, or the future dangers of the United States, the observer is invariably led to this as a primary fact.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Black, Causes, Facts

  Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve, Francis Bowen, Patrick Renshaw (1998). “Democracy in America”, p.140, Wordsworth Editions

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• In America, conscription is unknown; men are enlisted for payment. Compulsory recruitment is so alien to the ideas and so foreign to the customs of the people of the United States that I doubt whether they would ever dare to introduce it into their law.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, America, Law

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville. Chapter XIII, 1835.

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• A great deal of capital, which appears to-day in the United States without any certificate of birth, was yesterday, in England, the capitalised blood of children.

  Karl Marx

  Children, Yesterday, Blood

  Karl Marx (2016). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume I: The Economist”, p.450, VM eBooks

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• In the United States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the Republic. Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.

  Karl Marx

  Independent, White, America

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.329, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The economy of the United States gross domestic product doubled from 1996 to 2015, doubled, more than, $8.8 trillion to $17.1 trillion. And the median household income went down.

  Mark Shields

  United States, Income, Economy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's very difficult to pin down the President of the United States without subpoena powers.

  Bill O'Reilly

  President, United States, Subpoenas

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The United States is the only advanced economy with no paid parental leave for either mothers or fathers.

  Brigid Schulte

  Mother, Father, United States

  "CNN journalist Josh Levs forced his employer to give new dads more time off. Now he wants others to speak up, too". www.washingtonpost.com. June 15, 2015.

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• I hope to continue to be an activist for kids and teenagers and especially girls who are living with HIV/AIDS, because all over the world, people don't have the same rights that we do in the United States.

  Jenna Bush

  Girl, Teenager, Kids

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• Millions upon millions of people came here full of hope and aspiration to this extraordinary land of liberty and opportunity, and helped build the United States. So the Atlantic Ocean was absolutely critical to the story of America.

  Simon Winchester

  Ocean, Opportunity, Land

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• Dr Dean Burk, who has spent more than fifty years in cancer research, mainly at the National Cancer Institute states: 'More people have died in the last thirty years from cancer connected with fluoridation than all the military deaths in the entire history of the United States.'

  Dean Burk

  Military, Cancer, Years

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• A certain number of Americans are already in Peking and most of us here feel that it would be very useful for the United States and especially for the Left-wing progressive movement in the United States if groups of students such as you mention could make a tour of China.

  Anna Louise Strong

  Wings, Numbers, Groups

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• If "socialism" is defined as "ownership of the means of production"--and this is both the orthodox and the only rigorous definition--then the United States is the first truly Socialist country.

  Peter Drucker

  Country, Mean, Socialist Countries

  Peter F. Drucker (2017). “The Pension Fund Revolution”, p.11, Routledge

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• The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and immunities, of citizens of the United States; and, in the mean time, they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mean, Rights, Liberty

  Thomas Jefferson, Arthur Bishop, United States. President (1801-1809 : Jefferson) (1971). “Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826: chronology-documents-bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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