States Quotes

The United States Congress, like a lot of rich people, lives in two houses.

My big focus is China and OPEC and all of these countries that are just absolutely destroying the United States.

[Invading Iraq] is not the best way to make a safer world in which the United States would be a responsible partner, but it also goes against the role of law in the United States.

Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States.

It's sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help.

The United States is dangerously close to being a plutocracy. A third of the private wealth is owned by less than 5 percent of the population.

In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope and skepticism by African-Americans.

United States foreign policy, which includes national security, is literally disintegrating before our eyes.

The strategic partnership between the European Union and the United States is rooted in our shared values of freedom, human rights, democracy and a belief in the market economy.

The United States faces no serious military threats today, yet is constantly at war.

If heads of states fail to seize the opportunity of our entry into the third millennium to provide for a better government of planet Earth, history will not forgive them - if there is a history.

So I promise you that this State of the State, like a good pizza, will be delivered in 25 minutes or less.

Man's wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.

The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States.

Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.

A good debater can be a good communicator. You have to communicate when you're president of the United States, and communicate effectively with the American people, and with the world.

If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the "state of progressive collapse" is precisely that state in which alone we are warranted in considering All Things.

I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term.

We make our discoveries while in the state [of high functioning] because then we are clear-sighted.

When it comes to setting national priorities, determining threats, defining challenges, and fashioning and implementing foreign and defense policies, the United States and Europe have parted ways.

The liberties and freedoms which we hold dear and we recognize and cherish and respect guide the way we gather information in the United States

Illegal immigration continues to be a major problem in the United States. We have people waiting to come here legally. And we should not be rewarding people who have come here illegally.

Its obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

If the Union was formed by accession of States then the Union may be dissolved by the secession of States.

For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.

Equally inured by moderation either state to bear, prosperous or adverse.

Our educational results lag behind other states, and other nations, but worse still, behind the potential of the kids and the devoted teachers in our classrooms.

The major advantage of domestic travel is that, with a few exceptions such as Miami, most domestic locations are conveniently situated right here in the United States.

The most dangerous states in the international system are continental powers with large armies.

The United States did not choose to fight Islamic extremists. These terrorists chose to fight our way of life. They chose to challenge our existence.

After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly but effectively.

Join me in welcoming the next president of the United States, Paul Ryan.

I spent several years in a north Vietnamese prison camp in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all over again as vice president of the United States?

States, virtually all of them, have a constitutional requirement to operate on a balanced budget.

In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness.

This cannot be the United States being the air force for Shia militias, or a Shia on Sunni Arab fight.

The United States has some people in Europe with whom we disagree on this matter and a large number of people in Europe, including governments in Europe, with whom we agree.

We're not that far from being able to plant images, memories, and emotional states directly into the brain.

No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the States and compounding the American people into one common mass.

The social states of human kinds Are made by multitudes of minds, And after multitudes of years A little human growth appears Worth having, even to the soul Who sees most plain it's not the whole.

Our guest tonight is Michelle Obama, first lady of the United States. She's here to announce her run for president.

Nevada's one of the most conservative states in the Union, but you can do what you want in Vegas and nobody judges you.

Colonialism has completed the destruction of the American Indian in the United States - the cultural destruction.

No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, someone else has solved them.

Against the dark background of the atomic bomb, the United States does not wish merely to present strength, but also the desire and the hope for peace.

The national government was itself the creature of the States...Yet today it is often made to appear that the creature, Frankenstein-like, is determined to destroy the creators.

Bashar Assad is a major cause of the refugees which are now flooding Europe and causing such consternation in the United States.

The reality is, the United States has global interests. Our defense budget is about the same as the defense budgets or military budgets of every other country in the world put together.

It's proper and appropriate to remind the Chinese about what they get out of solid relations with the United States.

In the United States, you can put on a cowboy hat and join the country-western neighborhood. If you're down below 14th Street in New York City, that's bohemian; that's left-wing.