United Quotes - Page 5

• But Michael Vick killed dogs, and he did in a heartless and cruel way. And I think, personally, he should've been executed for that. He wasn't, but the idea that the President of the United States would be getting behind someone who murdered dogs?

  Tucker Carlson

  Dog, Thinking, Ideas

  "Tucker Carlson addresses Vick role". www.espn.com. December 30, 2010.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have been immeasurably honored to serve the people of Maine for nearly 40 years in public office and for the past 17 years in the United States Senate. It was incredibly difficult to decide that I would not seek a fourth term in the Senate.

  Olympia Snowe

  Past, Years, People

  Olympia Snowe: Why I’m leaving the Senate" by Olympia Snowe, www.washingtonpost.com. March 1, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Doing something that warrants the attention of the President of the United States is super-cool.

  Michael K. Williams

  President, United States, Attention

  "Michael K Williams: my guide to being a Barack Obama-endorsed badass". Interview with Rich Pelley, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• At least since the first petals of the counterculture bloomed across Europe and the United States in the 1960s, it has been fashionable to affirm that all religions are beautiful and all are true...This is a lovely sentiment but it is dangerous, disrespectful, and untrue.

  Stephen Prothero

  Beautiful, Europe, Lovely

  4 Copy quote

• The United Nations has no business in our elections.

  David Vitter

  Business, Election, United Nations

  7 Copy quote

• Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States.

  Anna Louise Strong

  Character, Practice, United States

  8 Copy quote

• Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.

  Tran ?uc Luong

  Equality, Rights, Achievement

  7 Copy quote

• The need for a permanent status resolution approved by Congress is made even more clear to me because of my experience as a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.

  Dick Thornburgh

  Experience, Needs, Resolution

  6 Copy quote

• The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.

  William H. Seward

  Happiness, Government, Political

  7 Copy quote

• At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.

  Olympia Snowe

  Leadership, Determination, President

  4 Copy quote

• With respect to the northeastern boundary of the United States, no official correspondence between this Government and that of Great Britain has passed since that communicated to Congress toward the close of their last session.

  Martin Van Buren

  Government, Sea, Lasts

  United States. President (1837-1841 : Van Buren), Martin Van Buren (1838). “Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress: At the Commencement of the Third Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress”, p.5

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the final analysis, national struggle is a matter of class struggle. Among the whites in the United States, it is only the reactionary ruling circles that oppress the black people. They can in no way represent the workers, farmers, revolutionary intellectuals and other enlightened persons who comprise the overwhelming majority of the white people.

  Mao Zedong

  Struggle, Class, Circles

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.12, Lulu.com

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you need to put your money in a safe and secure place and you want it to earn interest, Treasury bonds are safer than putting it in any bank as a deposit or putting it anywhere else, because they are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Government.

  Jim Cooper

  Ties, Government, Safe

  8 Copy quote

• Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.

  Livy

  Ties, Toil, Pleasure

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book V, section 4,

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Journey, Turkeys, United States

  6 Copy quote

• The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for the Arts. The whole culture in society has made certain films more acceptable. I turned down so many films in the '60s and '70s.

  Alex North

  Country, Art, Turkeys

  4 Copy quote

• Iraq both poses a continuing threat to the national security of the United States and international peace and security in the Persian Gulf region and remains in material and unacceptable breach of its international obligations by, among other things, continuing to possess and develop a significant chemical and biological weapons capability, actively seeking a nuclear weapons capability, and supporting and harboring terrorist organizations.

  Hillary Clinton

  Wmd, Organization, Iraq

  52 Copy quote

• Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Taken, Tyrants, Humanity

  Lajos Kossuth (1853). “Select speeches, condensed and abridged by F.W. Newman”, p.24

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• People who will not turn a shovel full of dirt on the project (Muscle Shoals Dam) nor contribute a pound of material, will collect more money from the United States than will the People who supply all the material and do all the work. This is the terrible thing about interest.

  Thomas A. Edison

  People, United States, Dams

  19 Copy quote

• To lay taxes to provide for the general welfare of the United States, that is to say, 'to lay taxes for the purpose of providing for the general welfare.' For the laying of taxes is the power, and the general welfare the purpose for which the power is to be exercised. They are not to lay taxes ad libitum for any purpose they please; but only to pay the debts or provide for the welfare of the Union.

  Thomas Jefferson

  United States, Purpose, Taxation

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.216, Penguin

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Memories, Usa, United States

  7 Copy quote

• As we all know, no crude oil refineries have been built in the United States since 1976. During that time, close to 100 ethanol refineries have been built.

  John Shimkus

  Usa, Oil, United States

  16 Copy quote

• I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Usa, United States, Ambassadors

  8 Copy quote

• God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it.

  Ely Culbertson

  Winning, Usa, United States

  Ely Culbertson (1946). “Must We Fight Russia?”, Philadelphia ; Toronto : John C. Winston

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself.

  Emanuel Celler

  Usa, Growth, United States

  Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source