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Quotes About United States

Despite habitual protests by civil servants and politicians that no such process is under way, the tortured and slow death of Internet privacy in the West, especially in the United Kingdom and the United States, is a sad – albeit visible – reality and is probably inevitable.
~ Misha Glenny
The United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements.
~ Mohsin Hamid
Something about the United States seemed to provide a fertile medium for culturing hate groups, irrational scapegoats, mass shootings, and the blame game.
~ Nancy Kress
But never before in the United States had the objects of envy and the objects of biological prejudice been the same group.
~ Nancy Kress
President Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke out strongly against war profiteers, saying, "I don't want to see a single war millionaire created in the United States as a result of this world disaster.
~ Naomi Klein
According to a 2009 Harvard Medical School study, as many as 45,000 people die annually in the United States because they lack health insurance. As one of the study's coauthors pointed out, this works out to about one death every twelve minutes. It's
~ Naomi Klein
HIV infections, for example, have declined in the United States, but fifty thousand Americans still acquire the virus every year.
~ Carl Zimmer
The "Burbank Seedling," as Gregory generously named it, quickly became one of the best-known crops in the United States. A descendant of that variety, the Russet Burbank, carpets much of the state of Idaho. They are the only potatoes that McDonald's, the biggest purchaser of potatoes in the United States, will accept for its french fries.
~ Carl Zimmer
I am proud to be a member of the Congress of the United States.
~ Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
My message to Washington is the United States has gone through incredible crises, and our leaders have been able to find common ground. And that's what our leaders have to do.
~ Kenneth Chenault
One of the main reasons I came back to Mexico is because I've found freedom and democracy here, something I never found in the United States.
~ Willie Wells
Mexico's making a fortune off the United States.
~ Donald Trump
I've closed factories in Mexico and brought those jobs back to the United States. I've closed factories in Canada and brought those jobs back to the United States.
~ Paul Nehlen
Mexico has a big roster, and there's a lot of talent. The United States is limited in what you can do. 'Lucha Undergound' is the gateway to any luchador who wants to come and be part of this roster.
~ Rey Mysterio
In Mexico, this idea that fathers go away is really deeply accepted because, for so long, so many men have had to leave to work in the United States.
~ Diego Luna
Unless the immigration issue is tackled in a constructive way, Mexico and the United States will probably revert to a historic cycle of confrontation and recrimination.
~ Denise Dresser
There is greater income inequality in the United States than in any other industrialized country. Yes, the debt is a problem that must be dealt with. To me, however, the disappearing middle class is even worse - bad for our economy and really bad for our democracy.
~ Jan Schakowsky
I know that Britain and the United States and others ship arms in the Middle East, 10 or maybe 100 times more than the Russian does.
~ Sergei Lavrov
People make mistakes. And one of the mistakes that the United States consistently made was that it could intervene and somehow adjust people's governments, especially in the Middle East.
~ Wesley Clark
No migrant of any religion has a constitutional right to come to the United States.
~ Tom Tancredo
I mean, the United States has had an eighteen-year military commitment in Afghanistan, and frankly, I can't think of any country other than the United States which is even capable of such a commitment.
~ Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
The president of the United States, Barack Obama, deserves the benefit of the doubt and our support in his decision to use military force in Libya.
~ Ed Schultz
People are frustrated. This is the most generous country in the world when it comes to immigration. There are a million people a year who legally immigrate to the United States, and people feel like we're being taken advantage of. We feel like despite our generosity, we're being taken advantage of.
~ Marco Rubio
The issue of remittances where we have millions of Mexicans working in the United States sending back dollars. He said they send back 10 billion dollars a year.
~ Tom Tancredo