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Quotes About United States

We were American citizens. We were incarcerated by our American government in American internment camps here in the United States. The term 'Japanese internment camp' is both grammatically and factually incorrect.
~ George Takei
I made a movie to explain to the American public what had been achieved in regards to disarmament of Iraq and why inspectors aren't in Iraq today and detailing the very complex, murky history of interaction between Iraq, the United Nations and the United States. It is most definitely not a pro-Iraq movie. It is a pro-truth movie.
~ Scott Ritter
There's no such thing as a legal right to break patents in the United States.
~ Alex Azar
Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.
~ Fidel Castro
Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq.
~ Norman Schwarzkopf
The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
~ Grover Cleveland
We do hereby command the Leaders of the Hebrew, Catholic and Protestant Churches to sanctify and have us crowned Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.
~ Joshua A. Norton
I was born in Taiwan and came to the United States when I was 2.
~ Lisa Su
The ability to be the first African-American painter to paint the first African-American president of the United States is absolutely overwhelming. It doesn't get any better than that.
~ Kehinde Wiley
All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.
~ Desmond Tutu
The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States. Occasionally we have to operate in places where, all considered, one would not normally choose to go. But we go where the business is.
~ Dick Cheney
Progressive music probably wouldn't even really exist if not for the people of the United States having picked up on it and nurtured it in the way they did. It really is an American form of music in the sense that it was nurtured here. So it belongs here. It has become part of the fabric of American musical culture.
~ Greg Lake
If you opened up every single potential drilling opportunity in the United States, it would have the effect of lowering gas prices three cents, maybe. And that's because, of course, oil is traded on a global market.
~ Jennifer Granholm
The United States should not frame its policy options in terms of doing nothing or unilaterally sending in the Marines.
~ Samantha Power
It was the biggest inflation and the most sustained inflation that the United States had ever had.
~ Paul A. Volcker
Securing a sustainable, safe food supply and supporting the agriculture industry at home and abroad enables the United States to serve as a global leader in national security.
~ Will Hurd
As a trusted institution with brick-and-mortar facilities in every corner of the United States, our public Postal Service is uniquely positioned to serve as a communications, finance, and service hub for the 21st century.
~ Marcia Fudge
The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
~ Noam Chomsky
In 1968, 'Liberty Magazine' had an article about George Wallace in which he stated he would suggest me as a possible vice-presidential candidate, along with other choices such as 'Happy' Chandler and General Curtis LeMay. However, I am not interested in any political office in the United States or anywhere, now or back in 1968.
~ Colonel Sanders
In Puerto Rico, we continue to see the perpetuation of second-class citizenship in the United States.
~ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
According to a new survey, 40 percent of adults in Mexico say they would move to the United States if they got a chance. The number would have been higher, but the other 60 percent already live here.
~ Conan O'Brien
I remain terrified of the capacity of the media, the capacity of spin doctors, here and abroad, particularly the United States media, to perpetuate false lies, perpetuate lies.
~ John le Carre
I think that our primary concern is that the membership in our industry become active. I'm not talking about the candidates being active. I'm talking about the few hundred thousand people who work in the industry around the United States.
~ Lew Wasserman
Less than two years after its founding, our Republic inflicted an ignominious defeat on the United States that had been boasting of being the 'strongest' in the world, thus defending its national sovereignty and global peace and security.
~ Kim Jong-un