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Quotes About United States

My responsibility as a "revolutionary" was to hurt the United States.
~ David Horowitz
All this stained cryptology so deeply with the dark hues of esoterism that some of them still persist, noticeably coloring the public image of cryptology. People still think cryptanalysis mysterious. Book dealers still list cryptology under "occult." And in 1940 the United States conferred upon its Japanese diplomatic cryptanalyses the codename MAGIC.
~ David Kahn
Analogously, men value physical attractiveness, and I found that women were most likely to cite enhancing their appearance as one of their primary mate retention tactics—a finding that is replicable across cultures, including Brazil, Croatia, and the United States.40 Out of the nineteen clusters evaluated, enhancing their appearance was the second most effective tactic used by women, after love and kindness.
~ David M. Buss
A heavily armed nation prone to violence finds it only reasonable to give law officers weapons and the authority to use them. In the United States, only a cop has the right to kill as an act of personal deliberation and action. To
~ David Simon
An embittered Douglass declared the United States a tyranny, a nation of corrupted memory, abandoning its victories in favor of power, greed, racial fear, and pride.
~ David W. Blight
A peculiar illusion of global omnipotence emerged in the United States after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
~ Unknown
Son, this is the United States of America. Some would say it's unconstitutional to try to prevent psychopaths from fulfilling their potential.
~ Dean Koontz
I found that the Russians had destroyed much of their country trying to keep up with the United States in their arms race.
~ Yvon Chouinard
Brother Anansi, the Spider, that great cultural hero of West Africa who is personated in Haiti by Ti Malice and in the United States by Brer Rabbit.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
What few realize is the unique role the North Country of New York played in advancing women's rights in the United States.
~ Elise Stefanik
I'm the first girl from Afghanistan to lead a series in the United States.
~ Azita Ghanizada
The United States spends more money on African aid than any nation on earth.
~ Tony Snow
If I was ambitious in my career, then I would have moved to the United States and given it a good go at films.
~ Keeley Hawes
Anytime the President of the United States, in either party, comes to your state, it is exciting.
~ John Bel Edwards
In the Congress of the United States, Cromwell had known a good many men who were possessed of absolute certainty, and this he feared so much that he felt the only real and enduring evil on the face of the earth was unbending certainty, unshakable orthodoxy.
~ Howard Fast
I bet he's hightailed it into Canada. Somewhere into Canada." "Let me put it this way. Basically, there's Canada and there's the United States of America, and Orkney, since he was a boy, never had one spark of interest in going to the latter.
~ Unknown
These broadcasts were of varied content. But all of them took the United States and Canada to task for their anti-Semitism, for not being willing to comprehend and act on the news of the concentration camps early enough, and for continued anti-Semitic policies as they pertained to Jewish refugees.
~ Unknown
Since the world (and the United States) "went off gold," the money supply has been regulated by men in place of the metal. Money supply, therefore, has become a master key of economic forecasting.
~ Unknown
If concerns about national identity led to an emphasis on religious ideology, the need for keeping the military well supplied resulted in Pakistan's alliance with the United States.
~ Husain Haqqani
The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.
~ Colin Powell
I talked about the need for American leadership, I talked about the importance of the United States to a more peaceful world, a world that has been quite turbulent in recent years, and needs a strong American anchor.
~ Condoleezza Rice
For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region, here in the Middle East, and we achieved neither.
~ Condoleezza Rice
We will not choose the path of submission and suffer the most sacred rights of our Nation and our people to be ignored or violated." He spoke of "the solemn and even tragical character of the step I am taking," and accepted that Germany had, in fact, already gone to war against the United States.
~ Conrad Black
No one here wants to admit it, but the United States is part of México's problem. The United States is feeding the beast, man.
~ Cristina Henriquez