United States Quotes

The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails.
Federico Garcia Lorca

America, United, Jazz

Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.
Stephen Gardiner

United, Straight, England

We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets.
Alan Dershowitz

Freedom, Important, Act

We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States.
Kim Jong Il

Good, Government, Friends

If I were president of the United States, I'd build a great wall along the Mexican border and not let anybody in.
Dave Mustaine

Great, President, United

I'm making this decision based on whether I believe in my heart that I'm ready to be president of the United States and that I want to be president of the United States right now.
Chris Christie

Heart, Decision, Making

If anybody ran a business like that they would be out of business quickly, and Barack Obama's leadership is driving this business, the United States of America, toward a fiscal cliff.
Chris Christie

Leadership, Business, America

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.
Mary Harris Jones

Him, Said, Once

Would you allow a people to come from somewhere else and occupy a part of the United States, and set up an independent state, and, after 50 years, you would not be able to stay on this land?
Hassan Nasrallah

After, Else, Able

There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States.
Ron Chernow

Country, Find, Easy

There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox.
Jane Smiley

Death, Famous, Before

The transatlantic relationship is vital for both our countries: France will remain a reliable ally of the United States. Nevertheless, ally does not mean aligned.
Francois Hollande

Mean, Both, United

Yes, the United States is still the great meritocracy it's always been; but now, if you aren't brilliant or beautiful or both, there isn't much to do, because they can do it cheaper in Shanghai or Mumbai.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

Great, Beautiful, Both

Readers have told me that their children have learned to read after years of struggle after starting to read Garfield's comic strip and many people who have moved to the United States have said that they, too, learned English by reading Garfield.
Jim Davis

Struggle, Children, After

I think we all share the same goal, which is a United States of America that inspires people and leads.
Tom Vilsack

Goal, America, Same

The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It's been the size of the continental United States for the last 3 million years and now 40 percent is gone and the rest of it is going.
Al Gore

Eyes, Before, Last

If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
Jack Kemp

Change, America, Congress

The fact is, almost every year since the founding of these United States, our government has lived beyond its means.
Paul Gillmor

Government, Fact, Means

Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.
Ice T

Country, United, Falls

A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat.
Allen West

Education, Women, Men

But when I look at the fact that today is 1,000 days that we have not had a budget for the United States of America, you know, the House, one of the things we did, we passed a budget last year. But that is still sitting over there at the Senate. And so we have got to get this country back on track.
Allen West

Today, Country, America

I want to deal with somebody who comes from another country to the United States and has a family that comes. I don't care if it's a black family from Jamaica or a Hispanic family from Mexico. These issues need to be dealt with, but they need to be dealt with in the entertaining way.
Harvey Weinstein

Family, Care, Black

I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral.
Bianca Jagger

War, Law, Wrong

I've actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric. And I don't mean hybrid, I mean fully electric.
Elon Musk

Mean, Actually, Within

This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen.
Paul Robeson

Government, Down, Happen

My priority is to give the United States the kind of influence it should have.
John Bolton

Give, Influence, United

Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States.
John Bolton

Everybody, United, National

You know, Hollywood sometimes tends to patronize the interior of the United States. As Horton Foote used to say, the great Texas playwright, that a lot of people from New York don't know what goes on beyond the South Jersey Shore.
Robert Duvall

Great, Sometimes, Used

This is technology that will not go away. And to risk it moving into the hands of a terrorist group like al Qaeda or to other focused enemies of the United States, would have tragic consequences.
John Sununu

Technology, Moving, Away

I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
Manuel Puig

Business, America, Young

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