Quotes About Us

If the two largest economies in the world don't show us a good example on trade liberalization, then you can't expect the smaller and weaker economies to take the risks. The initiative, the momentum and the drive really do have to come from Japan and the U.S.

My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later.

Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face.

Since 1998, the Administration has begun to upgrade counterintelligence and security at U.S. weapons labs.

As far as U.S. intelligence knows, Iran is developing nuclear capacities, but they don't know if they are trying to develop nuclear weapons or not. Chances are they're developing what's called 'nuclear capability,' which many states have. That is the ability to have nuclear weapons if they decide to do it. That's not a crime.

We need to stop illegal weapons flowing from the U.S. into Mexico.

When I was a young child and before he had left us for the U.S., my father would give me Mark Twain novels. In the characters, the weather and the context, my father must have seen many parallels to his own youth in the Caribbean in the 1930s and 40s.

I think people have always had ambiguous relationships toward the police because of the position in society they occupy. But that anxiety and that animosity isn't as strong in other places as it is in the U.S., partially because the police are armed here.

U.S. society doesn't want to play the role of international policeman.

In order to reverse the maternal health crisis for black women in the U.S., we need concrete policies from our leaders and better protocols from hospitals.

There is obviously a gap between the public's perception of the role of U.S. foreign policy and the elite's perception.

The very things that I would love about Barack and that you would love about Barack is that he is one of us. He's a normal guy. He's not a political animal.

I majored in political science, and my concentration was U.S. involvement in Latin America in the 20th century.

History chalks up Mr. McKinley's War as a U.S. win, and he also polls favorably as a 'near great' president.

Bioscience and biotech offer many opportunities. The U.S. focuses on the rich man; India has rich man diseases and poor man diseases. So you have a much larger set of opportunities.

The U.S. government is losing popularity every day in Europe, and people don't want to see us give in to them.

Europe has united, China is growing speedily and Russia possesses immense power in terms of fuel resources. The US administration cannot do anything about it.

The history of post-war Britain shows us that we are lousy at running our economy. We need someone to do it for us.

I think it's important for us not just to edit the culture that capitalism creates but to create the material basis for a culture that we want.

Hate cultures are not a thing of the past. They're a continuing problem and one cannot blame presidencies for this. Racism in the U.S. began way back, before the time of Abraham Lincoln.

Los Angeles has always been on the table with us.

China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) sees U.S. battle networks—"which rely heavily on satellites and the Internet to identify targets, coordinate attacks, guide 'smart bombs' and more"—as its "Achilles' heel.

The U.S. educational system cannot be the sole cause of the waning educational stature of the U.S.

It breathed between us, what he had said, the pain of a life suppressed, of happiness never to be.