The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.
George W. Bush

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.
George W. Bush

In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.
Alexis de Tocqueville

In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.
Alexis de Tocqueville

There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.
Alexis de Tocqueville

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.
Alan Watts

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

In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea.
Richard Bach

I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

There is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
Samuel Adams

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
Dave Barry

They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
Calvin Coolidge

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
Calvin Coolidge

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.
Lyndon B. Johnson

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me.
Lyndon B. Johnson