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Quotes About United States

When our economy grows, it is good for the world. When the world economy grows, it is good for the United States.
~ Gary Cohn
In the United States, there is no project so audacious for which people cannot be found to guarantee the cost and find the working expenses.
~ Jules Verne
Under the guise of BDS, Jewish students on college campuses across the United States are being subjected to blatant anti-Semitism.
~ Lee Zeldin
I'd like to think that, in the United States, you can criticize a company that makes hamburgers without having to worry about what might happen to you.
~ Eric Schlosser
There are ten thousand people in the United States in a persistent vegetative state. Just enough to start a small town. Think of them as veggie-burghers.
~ George Carlin
Ladies and gentlemen, we have just begun our gradual descent into the Indianapolis area, a descent similar in many ways to the gradual slide of the United States from a first-class world leader to an aggressive, third-rate debtor nation of overweight slobs, undereducated slob children and aimless elderly people who can't afford to buy medicine.
~ George Carlin
From the beginning, the United States has been based on a nurturant principle: • Citizens care about other citizens and work, through their government, to provide public resources for all. Those
~ George Lakoff
When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.
~ Bobby Fischer
I'm one of those people who believes that part of the greatness of the United States is our private sector. It's what we do as private citizens for ourselves and our companies. And our economy is essentially the wonder of the world because, in fact, it's produced so much for us over the years. That's not government that does that.
~ Dick Cheney
I wonder what it's like to be from a state that is spread across a few islands way out in the Pacific Ocean, only added to the United States in 1959. Not only that but to be the birthplace of America's first black president? Pretty cool, I bet.
~ Henry Rollins
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.
~ Gore Vidal
Just as we can no longer pretend that ducking under wooden desks will keep us safe from a nuclear bomb, we must no longer pretend that a large nuclear stockpile will protect us from the most immediate security threats the United States faces.
~ Mike Quigley
I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
~ Warren Buffett
In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
Here's the thing - if Donald Trump is elected president of the United States, in a kind of historical way, it's exciting because we will see the actual last president of the United States. It just won't work after that.
~ Johnny Depp
What was once a fringe idea - finding a way to use the record levels of overseas capital to finance new projects in the United States - is now mainstream. The support is there; we just have to work out the details.
~ John Delaney
Great Britain had a much different situation than we do and did here in the United States, in that they had literally thousands of infected animals with human health risks. Their infectivity in this disease happened before very much was known about it.
~ Ann Veneman
We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States.
~ Paul Wolfowitz
Barack Obama is a threat to the continued existence of the United States, and he must be impeached, or resign.
~ Kesha Rogers
I used to respect the United States and the American dream. Now I consider the United States the biggest threat to Internet freedom and peace in the world.
~ Kim Dotcom
There is no doubt ISIS poses a clear, direct threat to the United States, and decisive action is badly needed.
~ Bradley Byrne
The threat that ISIL presents and poses to the United States is very different in kind, in type and degree than al Qaeda. ISIL is not your parents' al Qaeda. It's a very different model.
~ James Comey
The threat that ISIL presents and poses to the United States is very different in kind, in type and degree than al Qaeda.
~ James Comey
For too long Hezbollah has been able to conduct its illegal operations unhindered by the threat of a direct response from the United States.
~ Mark Meadows