Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.
Andrew Jackson

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.
Andrew Jackson

Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down.
Andrew Jackson

Last night the United States dropped four 2,000 pound bombs on Saddam Hussein. I don't know anything about explosives, but, my God, do those things even need to explode?
David Letterman

This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!
Dan Quayle

Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.
Dan Quayle

Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself.
Dan Quayle

I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese aliens into the United States about eight or nine ago.
Rand Beers

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
John Maynard Keynes

I've been to all 50 states, and traveled this whole country, and 90 percent of the people are good folks. The rest of them take after the other side of the family.
Jeff Foxworthy

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

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

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

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

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
Frank Zappa

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Douglas Adams

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.
Thomas Sowell

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

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
Robert Orben

I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
William F. Buckley, Jr.