Quotes About United States

Law in the United States is at once a powerful medium and a medium for power.

The real threat to U.S. military power is nuclear proliferation, because if every little country has nuclear weapons it becomes very tricky for the United States to engage in military action.

The object of China's strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat us militarily.

Today, nuclear power provides 20 percent of power in the United States.

The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world.

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Henceforth, the United States may have to determine how to cope with regional coalitions that seek to push America out of Eurasia, thereby threatening America's status as a global power.

Well, the United States is a Pacific power. And we have always had a presence in the Pacific.

Great Britain would spend her last guinea to keep a navy superior to that of the United States or any other power.

The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

I never use the concept, multipolar. I use multilateral. Because we have only one global power: whether you like it or not, this is the United States.

Let him who looks for a monument to Washington look around the United States. Your freedom, your independence, your national power, your prosperity, and your prodigious growth are a monument to him.

This accession of territory affirms forever the power of the United States, and I have given England a maritime rival who sooner or later will humble her pride.

By burning nuclear waste as fuel, we believe we can power the United States cleanly for hundreds of years without ever touching new resources.

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death.

I have strongly rejected the proposal to pardon and transfer her to the United States. I do not have the legal power to pardon terrorists and even if I did, I would not use it.

Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that thou wilt keep the United States in thy holy protection.

It appears that the Soviets are now going to allow prayer in school. One wonders how soon the United States will catch up.

Britain and the United States have an enduring and special relationship based on the values of freedom, democracy and enterprise.

I would hope that Europe always has a privileged relationship with the United States. The alternatives are not attractive.

For decades, Japan has been a friend and reliable trading partner with the United States, and I anticipate that relationship will prosper.

The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.

The United States is a land of free speech. No where is speech freer—not even here where we sedulously cultivate it even in its most repulsive form.