States Quotes

Nobody gets to threaten the full faith and credit of the United States just to extract political concessions.

As I said in my State of the Union address ensuring the security of the United States and the safety of our people demands a smart, patient and disciplined approach to the world.

Mexico is going to need the United States to cooperate in order to rid itself of the violence and corruption that results from the drug trade.

The United States has been a Pacific nation for over two centuries. That's not going to change.

I want to make sure that as president of the United States that I'm not asserting in some way that my decisions overrule the decisions of prosecutors who are there to uphold the law.

In fact, the American people did decide, back in 2012, when they elected me president of the United States.

Companies in Mexico are not going to do well if they don't have some connection to not just markets, but also suppliers and technology from the United States.

First of all, I think everybody has to acknowledge don't underestimate the guy [Donald Trump], because he's going to be 45th president of the United States.

I reserve the right, as president of the United States to meet with anybody at a time and place of my choosing if I think it's going to keep America safe.

The United States was proud to stand with the people of Germany as this nation and this continent reunited and rebuilt and reached for a better future.

I'm confident that America's foreign policy rebalance to the region will endure beyond my presidency because it's in the national interest of the United States.

The last thing that I want to do is to have the United States be a foil.

It is my firm belief that it will be in the interests of the United States, especially our economic interests, to pursue comprehensive immigration reform.

As long as I'm president of the United States Iran will not get a nuclear weapon. I made that clear when I came into office.

We have states. And we have cities. And we have counties. And we have the private sector. And - and so the country still works even when Washington's dysfunctional.

Angela Merkel has been an extraordinary partner for me and for the United States throughout my presidency.

I then spoke to chancellor (Angela) Merkel of Germany and we agreed that the United States and our European allies will work closely together in the weeks and months ahead.

There is not a black America and a white America; a Latino America, an Asian America. There is the United States of America.

In the United States, if 43 percent of eligible voters do not vote, then democracy is weakened.

The United States wants a strong United Kingdom as a partner. And the United Kingdom is at its best when it's helping to lead a strong Europe.

We have to be realistic about what we can achieve in Afghanistan. The notion that the United States can build a Western-style democracy there is a myth

The United States government, in figuring our gross national product, defines 'durable goods' as anything that will last three years.

I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.

In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.

There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.

Europe is a state with several provinces

In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state.

It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.

In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.

I read recently that I was born in Arizona. I wasn't born in Arizona. I was born in New Mexico, but I can understand why people might confuse those two Southwestern desert states.

Look at this limp cravet. And the sad state of those cuffs. I can hardly bring myself to look upon them.

Why should you use a term [rebels] in the United States and England and maybe other countries and use another term in Syria ? This is a double standard that we don't accept.

We have to be there to get the evidence like what happened in Aleppo when we had evidence. And because the United States didn't send the team, we sent the evidence to the Russians.

The United States accused Syria, and because you accused you have to bring evidence [of chemical weapons], this first of all. We have to find evidences when we are there.

I don't think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?

The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary.

The States acceded to the Union.

I don't think Israel can accept an Iranian terror base next to its major cities any more than the United States could accept an al Qaeda base next to New York City.

The prime minister of Israel is welcome to speak in the United States, obviously. But we don't want to see this turned into some great political football

The only good thing I can say about the deal with Iran is that it brought the Arab states and Israel closer together.

I think that peace will require two states, a Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state.

The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.

We would get rid of assault weapons. There would not be an assault weapon in the United States, whether it's for a show or someone having it in a collection.

The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.

Nuclear weapons will not be gotten rid of until the United States confronts the magnitude of the horror, the tragedy, and the long-term suffering of the victims

Democrats need to become a 50-state party. You can't have a great party on the West Coast and the East Coast. You need to have a party in all 50 states.

I'm a United States senator, and I have a responsibility to the people of my state - also to the people of this country.

As a United States senator, I've got to do everything that I can to make sure that Trump does not become president.

I move that Hillary Clinton be selected as the nominee of the Democratic Party for president of the United States.

I am the longest- serving independent in the history of the United States Congress. People of Vermont sent me to Washington as an independent. That is true.