A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
Woodrow Wilson

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.
Woodrow Wilson

There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.
Woodrow Wilson

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
James Madison

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
James Madison

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.
Gertrude Stein

The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.
Colin Powell

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.
Colin Powell

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
Harry S. Truman

If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.
Harry S. Truman

Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
Alfred Adler

Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.
Ron White

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.
Elizabeth I

So we really need jobs now. We have to take jobs away from other countries because other countries are taking our jobs. There is practically not a country that does business with the United States that isn't making - let's call it a very big profit. I mean China is going to make $300 billion on us at least this year.
Donald Trump

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

Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.
John Keats

If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don't think there's anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States.
Will Smith

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.
John Updike

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?
Richard M. Nixon