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Quotes About Us

If there is any essence of your spirit lingering here, come into our hearts, now, and stay with us, when we leave this place where you left us, so that we can carry you inside us, and always love you.
~ Gregory David Roberts
The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago.
~ James Buchan
The U.S. is not a claimant state in the South China Sea or in the China-Japan dispute over the Senkaku Islands. But, of course, the 7th Fleet has been a presence in the region since the Second World War, and it is the most powerful fleet in the region.
~ Lee Hsien Loong
The freedom to express yourself without fear - that perhaps is something we in the U.S. take for granted. It's almost inconceivable to think we would be afraid to express our opinions or thoughts, but that's not true for all parts of the world now, and certainly not before World War II.
~ Friedrich St. Florian
I want to interpret the natural world and our links to it. It's driven by the belief of many world-class scientists that we're in the midst of an extinction crisis... This time it's us that's doing it.
~ Frans Lanting
In 2018, my biggest worry is actually about North Korea. I worry a great deal that they may do a destructive attack, perhaps against our financial sector, in an attempt to deter a potential U.S. strike against either their nuclear facilities or even the regime itself.
~ Dmitri Alperovitch
Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.
~ Franz Liszt
I grew up training and showing Arabs all over the US. Three of my four were bred on my farm in Texas. Thanks everyone! Hope you'll watch tomorrow. It's going to be another great look back.
~ Catherine Crier
However, the radio and national media depend much more on the hype from a good record label, and from a ' buzz ' about a band, then from just one or two good shows. There are a lot of artists that have a ton of good press going for them, and still do not make it big in the US.
~ Pat Garrett
I'm listening to the audience. Too many people in Hollywood make what they want to see and not what we want to see. I'm about us. Not about me.
~ Byron Allen
The important thing is that government gives the security services the tools that are necessary to keep us safe.
~ Amber Rudd
Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.
~ Edward Kennedy
Every Arab nation votes against us at least two thirds of the time.
~ Paul Weyrich
Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so.
~ George Saunders
The only time Republicans will shake fists and point fingers is over a war delayed, one that isn't led by the US, or a war waged without the necessary conviction (read collateral damage).
~ Ilana Mercer
Why should we break up Our snug and pleasant party? Time was made for slaves, But never for us so hearty.
~ John Baldwin Buckstone
US government button specifications run to twenty-two pages. This fact on its own yields a sense of what it is like to design garments for the Army.
~ Mary Roach
Animals' taste systems are specialized for the niche they occupy in the environment. "That's driven their sensory systems down a certain path," Rawson says. This includes the animal known as us.
~ Mary Roach
For people who want to question whether the US has a racist history, just go back and look at the political cartoons. The history is horrible. (2021 interview with Daily Cartoonist)
~ Matt Wuerker
For us to respond in that way to hateful speech... we empower the worst of us .. to create chaos around the world.
~ Barack Obama
unwillingness to make hard choices and live up to our own ideals doesn't just undermine U.S. credibility in the eyes of the world. It undermines the U.S. government's credibility with the American people.
~ Barack Obama
This was in the before-time, last days of. Still no internet with all the ways of saying, Let's us be better than those guys so we can hate on them.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Some US leaders invited the destitute of the world to cross their leaking borders with assurances that they would be entitled to the same.
~ Steve Martini
impossible is just the kind of challenge we've been waiting for. What the world needs most is Superman. What the world needs most is us.
~ Steven Kotler