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The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got.
How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?
I think there needs to be a meeting to set an agenda for more meetings about meetings.
Social security isn’t a ponzi scheme. It’s not bankrupting us. It’s not an outrage. It is working.
Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.
Anti-Americanism may indeed have grown fiercer than it was during the cold war. It is a common phenomenon that when the angels fail to deliver, the demons become more fearsome.
You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done.
It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.
It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.
Unless government appropriately regulates oil developments and holds oil executives accountable, the public will not trust them to drill, baby, drill. And we must!
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
We all read news stories about the difficulties and tensions that the United States has with our allies and even with coalition partners in Iraq, but we rarely read about the good news.
However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.
After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America.
But I would say if the Security Council is only relevant if it agrees with the United States, then we have come a long way in a direction that I do not like very much.
On the basis of both values and interests, the natural relationship between Islam and the United States is one of friendship.
What is at stake is preserving our relations with the United States. They should not be changed because of what has happened. But trust has to be restored and reinforced.
One might say that the American trend of education is to reduce the senses almost to nil.
If you take the biological weapons in the United States we still will have perhaps a single individual who was able to make anthrax, dry it, and spread it through the mail and cause terror.
It's sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help.
To an American writer, I should think it must be a flattering distinction to escape the admiration of the newspapers.
If I lived in another country, like a country that was, say, an enemy of the United States, I would be more amused than I am.
I have never believed that there is a secret United Nations plot to take over the US... But, for the first time in my life, I think the formation of some sort of world government is plausible.
Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.
The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.
Universities are less constrained by authority and rigid doctrine in the United States than in most other societies, to my knowledge.
Raising the debt ceiling is not additional spending. It is simply saying, you, the United States of America, can continue to borrow the money you need to pay the bills you have already rung up.
The president assured the chancellor that the United States is not monitoring and will not monitor the communications of the chancellor.
United by their clasped hands, they became again the two halves, the light and the dark. The Destroyer and the Savior. A whole.
This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen.
And at home in the United States we found continued and increased persecution, first of leaders of the Communist Party, and then of all honest anti-fascists.
The Constitution of the United States was created by the people of the United States composing the respective states, who alone had the right.
My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States.
The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for a fair shake anymore.
I confirm that Mexico and the United States will continue to reinforce the links of cooperation and mutual respect.
If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be barred from any public office in the United States and the families of the breed would be shipped off to the white slave corrals of Argentina.
Either we stand united and agree to combat climate change or we will all stumble and fall and condemn humanity to a tragic future.
The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for the future.
I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States.
For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe.
What fetched me instantly (and thousands of other newcomers with me) was the subtle but unmistakable sense of escape from the United States.
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.
I think that you hear more opposition to the government in Venezuela than you would here in the United States. That's in the TV, in the radio and in the print media.