A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.
Thurgood Marshall

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
John Kenneth Galbraith

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.
John Kenneth Galbraith

We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.
Jimmy Carter

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

Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.
Dag Hammarskjold

We live in such a sheltered environment in the United States. I've been fortunate enough to have traveled all over the world, and I've seen things you only read about and see on the news.
Payne Stewart

A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him.
Gerald R. Ford

The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments is the rule.
Jeffrey Sachs

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.
Ho Chi Minh

United we stand, divided we fall.
Aesop

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
George Balanchine

I suppose that the media and their portrayal of Islam and the almost tribal separations and divisions of the Muslims are the greatest issues confronting Muslims in the United Kingdom.
Cat Stevens

I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
Bell Hooks

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.
Doug Larson

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

There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
Otto von Bismarck

If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.
Steve Allen

People in the United Kingdom and outside the United States share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself.
Bill Hicks

One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.
Mortimer Adler