Top United States Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of United States quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Eric Schlosser
The United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers.
- Eric Schlosser
Collection: United States
Image of Susan Rice
What we have done is when the threat has been directed at the United States, i.e., the terrorist threat from ISIL or Al-Qaeda in Syria, is to go after them.
- Susan Rice
Collection: United States
Image of Howard Aiken
Only six electronic digital computers would be required to satisfy the computing needs of the entire United States.
- Howard Aiken
Collection: United States
Image of Jalal Talabani
Talabani and Al-Maliki want to keep their seats for ever. Talabani forgets that the side which brought him to power was the United States and it brought him by rigging the elections.
- Jalal Talabani
Collection: United States
Image of Jim Bishop
Perhaps the best thing which can be said about newspapers in the United States is that they are in chronic disagreement with each other. That is what is meant by a free press.
- Jim Bishop
Collection: United States
Image of Mark Shields
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
Collection: United States
Image of Tim Ryan
Listen, were losing so much manufacturing, all over the United States.
- Tim Ryan
Collection: United States
Image of Gary Miller
An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million
- Gary Miller
Collection: United States
Image of Gore Vidal
We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.
- Gore Vidal
Collection: United States
Image of John Kennedy Toole
A firm rule must be imposed upon our nation before it destroys itself. The United States needs some theology and geometry, some taste and decency. I suspect that we are teetering on the edge of the abyss.
- John Kennedy Toole
Collection: United States
Image of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
And God willing, with the force of God behind it, we shall soon experience a world without the United States and Zionism.
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Collection: United States
Image of John Ralston Saul
United States:. A nation given either to unjustified over-enthusiasms or infantile furies.
- John Ralston Saul
Collection: United States
Image of Howard Berman
I have said it before but it bears repeating: Aid is not a gift. The United States provides foreign assistance because it serves OUR interests.
- Howard Berman
Collection: United States
Image of Catherine O'Hara
The United States is one of the only holdouts, not changing to metric.
- Catherine O'Hara
Collection: United States
Image of Robert Reich
Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median wage in the United States, adjusted for inflation, keeps on dropping.
- Robert Reich
Collection: United States
Image of Helen Caldicott
The whole world is being 'deculturalized' into a uniform 'Coca-Cola society,' wanting and needing an American way of life.
- Helen Caldicott
Collection: United States
Image of Gay Mitchell
The EU is not going to attack the United States. Supposedly, China or the EU was doing this on the UScan you imagine what the blowout would be?
- Gay Mitchell
Collection: United States
Image of Linda Chavez
When have handouts ever worked? In the United States, we learned that welfare for our own citizens not only turned into a debilitating crutch, it created a more or less permanent underclass.
- Linda Chavez
Collection: United States
Image of Salmon P. Chase
If Congress sees fit to impose a capitation, or other direct tax, it must be laid in proportion to the census; if Congress determines to impose duties, imposts, and excises, they must be uniform throughout the United States. These are not strictly limitations of power. They are rules prescribing the mode in which it shall be exercised... This review shows that personal property, contracts, occupations, and the like have never been regarded by Congress as proper subjects of direct tax.
- Salmon P. Chase
Collection: United States
Image of Hugh Shelton
It is changing the face of terrorism. It is basically bringing it to the United States, to our great citizens. It is -- we know terrorists are barbaric, and murderers that attack innocent civilians, as they did in this case.
- Hugh Shelton
Collection: United States
Image of Russell Conwell
Let us remember there is not a poor person in the United States who was not made poor by his own shortcomings.
- Russell Conwell
Collection: United States
Image of Lydia M. Child
The United States is a warning rather than an example to the world.
- Lydia M. Child
Collection: United States
Image of John Naughton
To say that Sputnik gave rise to some concern in the United States would be the understatement of the century. The truth is that the US went apeshit
- John Naughton
Collection: United States
Image of Sara Jeannette Duncan
I know Americans talk a great deal about the price of things - more, I consider, than is entertaining, sometimes!
- Sara Jeannette Duncan
Collection: United States
Image of Althea Gibson
I don't consciously beat the drums for any cause, not even the negro in the United States.
- Althea Gibson
Collection: United States
Image of Paul Bremer
[Insurgents] pose no strategic threat to the United States or to the Coalition Forces.
- Paul Bremer
Collection: United States
Image of Robert Gibbs
There's no safer investment in the world than in the United States.
- Robert Gibbs
Collection: United States
Image of Eve Curie
Nothing is impossible in the United States.
- Eve Curie
Collection: United States
Image of David Lange
Will the United States pull the rug on New Zealand? The answer is no. They might polish the lino a bit harder and hope that I execute a rather unseemly glide across it.
- David Lange
Collection: United States
Image of Paul Craig Roberts
The United States has collapsed economically, socially, politically, legally, constitutionally, and environmentally.
- Paul Craig Roberts
Collection: United States
Image of Peter Eisenman
When looking at Germans, I have never felt a sense that they are guilty. I have encountered anti-Semitism in the United States as well.
- Peter Eisenman
Collection: United States
Image of Mohammad Khatami
The policies that the United States has chosen unfortunately have brought about the wrong sentiment toward the United States and has only increased, and will only increase, extremism in our region.
- Mohammad Khatami
Collection: United States
Image of Chuck Todd
The first thing [Donald Trump] does on January 20th is take an oath to defend and adhere to the Constitution of the United States.
- Chuck Todd
Collection: United States
Image of Peter Kuznick
China is doing a lot of things right that the United States is doing wrong.
- Peter Kuznick
Collection: United States
Image of Allan Nairn
It's illegal to be a terrorist in the United States.
- Allan Nairn
Collection: United States
Image of Will Cuppy
We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.
- Will Cuppy
Collection: United States
Image of Michael Oppenheimer
The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States.
- Michael Oppenheimer
Collection: United States
Image of William G. Boykin
I do stand in opposition to those who want to implement Sharia and essentially attack the Constitution of the United States.
- William G. Boykin
Collection: United States
Image of Paul Tough
And in most highly academic environments in the United States, no one fails anything.
- Paul Tough
Collection: United States
Image of Jeff Goodell
Compared to coal, which generates almost half the electricity in the United States, natural gas is indeed a cleaner, less polluting fuel. But compared to, say, solar, it's filthy. And of course there is nothing renewable about natural gas.
- Jeff Goodell
Collection: United States
Image of Michael Beschloss
We [the United States] are the world's only superpower right now, so everyone notices every bit of what we do or don't do.
- Michael Beschloss
Collection: United States
Image of Dianne Feinstein
Women are beginning to feel that they are not fairly represented. As we say, 2% may be fine for fat in milk, but not for the United States Senate.
- Dianne Feinstein
Collection: United States
Image of Oliver Wolcott
The Constitution enjoins an oath upon all the officers of the United States. This is a direct appeal to that God Who is the avenger of perjury. Such an appeal to Him is a full acknowledgement of His being and providence.
- Oliver Wolcott
Collection: United States
Image of Michael Mandelbaum
Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.
- Michael Mandelbaum
Collection: United States
Image of Michael Mandelbaum
The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional powers that, while not preparing for armed conflict, do not fully trust one another.
- Michael Mandelbaum
Collection: United States
Image of Enrique Pena Nieto
I confirm that Mexico and the United States will continue to reinforce the links of cooperation and mutual respect.
- Enrique Pena Nieto
Collection: United States
Image of Gerald Celente
The gap between the rich and the poor is wider in the United States than it is in any of the other industrialized nations.
- Gerald Celente
Collection: United States
Image of Cheikh Anta Diop
Africa can and will only advance through African integration, which can be realized through the Federal United States of Africa
- Cheikh Anta Diop
Collection: United States
Image of Adam Fletcher
The pattern of discrimination that allows this discrimination was set in the founding of the United States.
- Adam Fletcher
Collection: United States
Image of Josef Joffe
Defying History and Theory: The United States as the 'Last Remaining Superpower,'
- Josef Joffe
Collection: United States