Quotes About United States

See, one of the greatest things about living in the United States is that we have the absolute freedom to say whatever we want about our government, while being protected against government retaliation.

As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.

We are a nation of borders and - I mean, that is one of the main things that the federal government is in charge with, and that is protecting the citizens of the United States and our whole nation.

The Attorney General of the United States is, of course, not the president's lawyer. The AG is supposed to be the attorney for the United States, protecting the rule of law.

Protectionism is something that will hurt everybody, but especially the United States.

In Japan, it becomes a huge issue in terms of not just the government and its protest against the United States, but all different groups and all different peoples in Japan start to protest.

In the United States, the last recorded clitoridectomy for curing masturbation was performed in 1948--on a five year old girl.

There was a regulation that if they remained at large in enemy territory for some weeks longer, they could be repatriated to the United States. It was for this that they had made a hazardous parachute jump and destroyed an expensive, very slightly damaged aeroplane.

Communism as I see it has no place in the United States, and the American people will not stand for its teachings.

newly formed group of women fliers known as the WASPs. Female pilots were desperately needed to ferry planes and supplies around the United States and free up the men for combat duty.

Mortality rates in the United States fell by 40% from 1900 to 1940 and life expectancy rose from forty-seven to sixty-three, note researchers David M. Cutler and Grant Miller.

The real test for the United States is political—and it rests not just with America at large but with Washington in particular.

American legislators rarely think about the rest of the world when writing laws, regulations, and policies. American officials rarely refer to global standards. After all, for so long the United States was the global standard, and when it chose to do something different, it was important enough that the rest of the world would cater to its exceptionality.

The new metric worldwide would raise the figure for other nations as well, but the contribution of education, R&D, and consumer durables to total savings "is higher in the United States than in most other countries, except perhaps for a few Nordic countries."*

Denmark's taxes add up to 45% of its GDP, whereas in the United States the figure is 24%. And Denmark doesn't just tax the rich. Like other European countries, Denmark collects a large part of its revenues from a national sales tax. Its sales tax rate is 25%, in line with the European Union's overall average of 20%.

The health-care system in the United States is a vast, complex, and expensive one, but it responds to market incentives.

We have the lowest student-teacher ratio and spend five times as much on schools than war - the opposite of what the United States does. [explaining why Cuba has the highest literacy in the world]

It means a lot to be considered the fastest in the United States.

I do think if we had a draft again, the United States would embark on fewer wars.

The U.S. should be equally responsible for diminishing the cocaine market within the United States as it is in fighting the drug elsewhere.

The whole financial industry is consolidating in the United States.

People may be due the benefits of a democratic electoral process. But in the United States, content curators appropriately have a First Amendment right to present their content as they see fit.

I'm very excited to fight for the first time in the United States and on HBO.

If Israeli intelligence that has been shared with the United States - whether the National Security Agency, the C.I.A., the Defense Department, or the White House - is not safely guarded, Israel faces a major threat to its security. Cooperation with America's agencies is deeply embedded in Israel's intelligence community.