Quotes About U.S.

It turns out that the portfolio with the least risk had 18 percent foreign securities and 82 percent U.S. securities. Moreover, adding 18 percent EAFE stocks to a domestic portfolio also tended to increase the portfolio return.

I feel that I'll be buried in Ireland and don't think I'll ever live in the U.S. I'm not comfortable with many aspects of U.S. society - especially the justice system.

In the U.S., search engines are king. That is because everyone already knows what they are looking for. Brands have been around for a long time.

the Soviet leader had hoped that the U.S. president would issue a formal request for the USSR's participation in the East Asian war, providing a pretense for the Russians to abrogate their neutrality pact with Japan.

I consider myself incredibly lucky to live and work in places like Canada and the U.S. where polio no longer threatens to rob the livelihoods of innocent children. As a young woman, I stand behind the women around the globe who are leading the charge against polio and working relentlessly to achieve a polio-free world.

I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.

Once the people of Iraq know when the U.S. troops will leave, their confidence in the U.S. will increase.

I recognize that most Americans are tired of U.S. troops fighting in Afghanistan after more than 18 years of war. I am, too.

All I can say right now is the U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.

No peace will arrive unless the U.S. or Pakistan want it.

We put no condition of any kind to the U.S., we don't want it to change its system, we don't want racial discrimination to cease in the U.S., we put no conditions to the establishment of relations.

Out of the five years I spent in software, I was in the U.S. for two.

Companies are always being bought and sold. The markets are always moving; you have to be on top of your position. And in the U.S., the market is never closed for more than three days. The only time the market was ever closed was 9/11. I think it may have been closed the whole week.

The world can't have a global solution to climate change with U.S. action alone; and the world can't have a global solution without U.S. action.

According to these new rules, the U.S. government was free to use the methods it had developed in the 1950s under layers of secrecy and deniability—only now it was out in the open, without fear of prosecution.

Much of U.S. foreign policy...is an exercise in projection, in which a tiny self-interested elite conflates its needs and desires with those of the entire world.

People talk about immigration, but they won't talk about the corruption that actually exists between Mexico and the U.S.

Mexico will never accept U.S. military intervention. Mexicans always remember 1848.

On taking office in 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama put Israeli settlements at the center of U.S. policy in the Middle East.

I grew up in Atlanta, which meant the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, was a mere 200 miles away.

The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.

REPORTER: Thank you, sir. A simple question. GEORGE W. BUSH: Yes. It may require a simple answer. REPORTER: What's your definition of the word "torture"? GEORGE W. BUSH: Of what? REPORTER: The word "torture." What's your definition? GEORGE W. BUSH: That's defined in U.S. law, and we don't torture. REPORTER: Can you give me your version of it, sir? GEORGE W. BUSH: Whatever the law says.

revealing of its origin as a U. S. Army post before the National Park Service came to be. Elk

Well, we don't think for a moment that either the U.S. or Australia are out to damage the New Zealand economy, but if there were a sustained period in which they had a free-trade agreement and New Zealand didn't have that same arrangement with the States, that could be both trade- and investment-distorting.