States Quotes

We should therefore be opposed to institutional barriers to that freedom: Military dictatorships, for example. Or states run by a Central Committee.

The United States is going to continue to punish Iran because of its defiance.

The United States is the Godfather when it establishes edicts. Others had better live up to them, or else. We have to demonstrate that. So that's what the bombing of Syria was to have demonstrated.

In the United States everyone is an illegal immigrant - everyone except the people in Indian Reservations. This is an immigrant society.

The UN can go as far as the U.S. will allow, and no further. And it's bound by conditions that the powerful states, which means mostly the U.S., impose.

The UN to some extent diffuses U.S. power. Therefore it's less direct an agency of the United States than the U.S. Army is. But still, it can't escape the distribution of power in the world.

In a really business-run society like the United States, the business elites are deeply committed to class struggle and are engaged in it all the time. They're instinctive Marxists.

Procurement is a major technique of state subsidy.

Parts of the United States are taking on a Third World look.

They [the union] were members of the Communist Party - they didn't care one way or another about Russia, they just cared about the United States.

In fact, a rather striking aspect of business propaganda in the United States is the demonization of government, starting after the Second World War.

I don't think that the United States cares. They just assume that North Korea will soon have nuclear weapons.

Yes, and Syrians. There is a horrible crisis there and the United States has admitted virtually none of the refugees.

Real wages for male workers in the United States are about what they were in the '60s.

While the state can coerce, with some exceptions (like North Korea) it seems to me misleading to think of it as capable of "enslavement."

The major organizing centers, like the labor movement, have been severely weakened in the United States by policy.

The Smithsonian Institute is one of the most popular agencies of government in the United States.

There's no show business in Canada, so everybody just did stand-up and we all thought, "Oh, we'll just keep doing stand-up." And then I'm like, "There's more work in the States."

Public opinion in the United States has shifted significantly, not just outside but also within the Jewish community.

English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market.

In his normal state he would not strike a lamb. I’ve known him to do it’ ‘Do what?’ ‘Not strike lambs

The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.

I am indebted to the press of the United States for almost every dollar which I possess.

I grew up a vegetarian. Then, because I grew up in the states, I started slowly eating meat. First it was bologna sandwiches, or pepperoni on pizza.

In the states we all have this idea, everyone who wants to be the next best singer, next best dancer. Those same wants and desires are in India, too.

Nations decide upon their own destinies, and those choices are not the business of the United States if they do not threaten the United States.

The world has changed, and the United States needs to change with it.

The United States has more women and girls in prison than any other industrialized nation on earth.

We have states that are throwing away the DNA of rapists. How can a woman be so inconsequential, that we as a nation aren't standing up and doing something about this intimate, violent act?

In the United States we have more women in poverty than any other industrialized nation.

When the music created by the sounds and ordering of the words matches the thrust of the meanings of the words, then a radiant state of awareness can occur.

To get asked to do stuff like 'United States Of Tara' and 'Caprica' is terrific. I can't complain.

Climate change is very real. It is a serious issue it should be treated that way... It is not just ours here in Iowa or even in the United States.

Guess what - I am one of the ONLY senators in the whole United States Senate that is computer literate!

[Insurgents] pose no strategic threat to the United States or to the Coalition Forces.

These people hate the United States, not for what we do, but for who we are and what we are.

There is $1.4 billion a day in trade that goes back and forth across the border. That means millions of jobs and livelihoods for families here in Canada and for families in the United States.

In a war a totalitarian state has a free hand.

It is better for a country to have a strong leader, this applies to the United States as well as to Rwanda.

The United States being in Asia is unambiguously a good thing for the region.

The United States in particular and the West in general should be feeling a little embarrassed about all that lecturing we did to the Third World.

I am being tried for fighting for the right of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America.

I said it was my feeling that the American people would struggle for peace, and that has since been underscored by the President of these United States.

There's a gaping difference between the United States of America and Putin's Russia.

I want to bring accountability to the federal government. I want the federal government to respect the states.

My state, Scott Walker, our governors, reformed Medicaid so it actually works, so that the doctors will take the program.

'Taxi Driver' wasn't autobiographical in terms of the actual events, but I did draw on my own mental state.

While the United States (US) can view the war as a success, Europe must see it as a failure for it and, in particular, for the institutions of the European Union (EU).

Islamic State is mainly a direct result of the failure in Syria. That's where IS has grown. That's where IS spread from.

We want the world's largest economies, including the United States, to be part of a global arrangement. An approach in which only some are committed to acting cannot be environmentally effective.