Quotes About Us

The US threatened to withhold badly needed loans to the Jewish state, an unconscionable move that is a permanent stain on the record of Bush.

Let's not let the government sell us out. Let's fight for net neutrality.

The people who send us fan mail written in blood say the nicest things, so it doesn't freak us out too much.

Soliciting anything of value from a foreign national to help a U.S. campaign is not just illegal; it is the Founding Fathers' nightmare.

Hamas is regularly described as 'Iranian-backed Hamas, which is dedicated to the destruction of Israel.' One will be hard put to find something like 'democratically elected Hamas, which has long been calling for a two-state settlement in accord with the international consensus'—blocked for over 30 years by the US and Israel. All true, but not a useful contribution to the Party Line, hence dispensable.

The new crimes that the US and Israel were committing in Gaza as 2009 opened do not fit easily into any standard category—except for the category of familiarity.

Of course all such conclusions about appropriate actions against the rich and powerful are based on a fundamental flaw: This is us, and that is them. This crucial principle, deeply embedded in Western culture, suffices to undermine even the most precise analogy and the most impeccable reasoning.

Another problem with the official definitions of terror is that it follows from them that the US is a leading terrorist state.

US relations with the World Court and other international institutions have undergone a similar evolution, to which we return.

In the case of Yugoslavia v.s. NATO, one of the charges was genocide. The U.S. appealed to the court, saying that, by law, the United States is immune to the charge of genocide, self-immunized, and the court accepted that, so the case proceeded against the other NATO powers, but not against the United States.

An enemy combatant can be anyone that the US chooses to attack, with no credible evidence, as Washington concedes.

A well-known Egyptian academic traces hostility towards the US to its support for 'every possible anti-democratic government in the Arab-Islamic world..... ... When we hear American officials speaking of freedom, democracy and such values, they make terms like these sound obscene.

Terrorism, he said is 'a reaction to the injustice in the region's domestic politics, inflicted in large part by the US.

As another example to amplify this point, there's been an enormous amount of coverage in the last week or so of the declaration of an emergency, to justify building a wall on the southern US border.

One is rapidly widening wealth and income inequality. US wealth increased by eight and a half trillion dollars in 2017, with the richest 2 percent getting about $1.15 trillion. That figure is more than the total cost of Medicaid and the complete safety net

Control of Latin America was the earliest goal of US foreign policy and remains a central one partly for resources and markets but also for broader ideological reasons. If the United States could not control Latin America it could not expect to achieve a successful order elsewhere in the world

However, through the 1950s and early 1960s the nuclear mission was paramount and US carriers had large numbers of bombs on board, typically about 200.

In the sky overhead, it's the same sun watching us make the same mistakes over and over. It's the same blue sky..

When we talk about the foreign, the question becomes one of us versus them. But in the end, is one just the opposite side of the other?

Half of all US tornadoes hit in the central plains;

It is to be supposed that the other giants killed him because he had come to us.

There is a saying in the occult community that goes: The Gods need us as much as we need the Gods!

U.S. nuclear technology is one of this nation's most valuable secrets, and it should have been protected.

People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.