Our first responsibility is to protect the American people and we cannot put on blinders to expect that everyone who seeks asylum… — Bill Shuster Copy Share Image
Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I think the American people should know there's already strong influences toward another deployment of American troops in an open-ended commitment. — John McCain Copy Share Image
If the American people in a matter of months can love the people of Kuwait, whom they have not seen, they can… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
The American oligarchy increasingly has less in common with the American people than it does with the equivalent oligarchies in Germany or… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
“When I left, Mr. Chairman, I had the constitutional right to freedom of speech. Has that right been stripped from the American… — Kenneth Eade Copy Share Image
This is the America that I love. This is a great people. We can do anything. We can achieve anything. We've got… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I think that, you know, this is a different year than most years. We've got to tell the American people that we… — Ken Buck Copy Share Image
This kind of game in which anybody who I know, regardless of how flimsy the relationship is, that somehow their ideas could… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Throughout American history, the political leaders have always exhorted the American people to be nice and quiet and leave things to them.… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The only thing that can be expected from the next US president is more war, more murder, and more oppression of the… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
That's a very hard thing to help the establishment know. We're still an establishment that thinks the average mentality is something like… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
I trust in due time to lay the perfidy, meanness, and wickedness of [Henry] Clay naked before the American people. I have… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
If we want an all-volunteer force, the bottom line is that we're going to have to take care of these people who… — Gordon R. Sullivan Copy Share Image
Probably the greatest single obstacle to the progress and happiness of the American people lies in the willingness of so many men… — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
“We need to step back and ask ourselves whether we are being led by people of integrity with real, honest concerns, or… — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
“Leadership cannot be created synthetically. Men must be what they were made by the Almighty or the American people will find them… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
It's beginning to sound like the American people are the suspects of the federal government. We are not simply subjects. We are… — Will Cain Copy Share Image
The function and responsibility of the President is to set before the American people the unfinished business, the things we must do… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Times change. Cable news and the Internet alone have transformed the way outreach to the American people can be accomplished. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
I feel strongly that the Supreme Court needs to stand on the side of the American people, not on the side of… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The American people have got a touchstone: Which party voted for the tools necessary to protect America and which party didn't? And… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
To be elected president, you have to do more than tear down your opponents. You have to give the American people a… — Mike DeWine Copy Share Image
Over three-quarters of the American people are saying it's time to open up the debates. We have rejected these two candidates [Hillary… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television's cocoon and interact directly… — Oliver North Copy Share Image
Today the primary threat to the liberties of the American people comes not from communism, foreign tyrants or dictators. It comes from… — George Allen Copy Share Image
Not only am I literally and figuratively the dark horse, I'm actually the poor horse. The only thing that I have going… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
I know as well as anyone that the American people want to know that their hard-earned dollars are being spent wisely by… — Tom Price Copy Share Image
What the American people don't understand is how Merrill Lynch or AIG or Lehman Brothers can reward people, and the entity fails.… — Richard Grasso Copy Share Image
For the Archivist, this role is a result of his obligation to preserve and assure timely and maximum access to our governmental… — Allen Weinstein Copy Share Image
“Visitors found the English and American people undeferential, quarrelsome, keen on making money, fiercely individualistic, and uninterested in the doings of foreigners.” — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
I wonder at what point do you stop doing what you think is right and you start doing what the majority of… — Scott Pelley Copy Share Image
Once the fire from the retaliatory strike dies down, the American people are going to find out that it is the Clinton… — Dana Rohrabacher Copy Share Image
While we all would have preferred a different outcome when combat operations in Afghanistan ended, it's important to remember the service and… — Phil Scott Copy Share Image
Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people. — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
As Bernie Sanders himself said, you know, the [Donald] Trump movement reflects the economic despair and misery that's been inflicted not only… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
You are, I am sure, aware that genuine popular support in the United States is required to carry out any Government policy,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Say good-bye to a Supreme Court that is truly open and balanced and looking out for the American people. Instead the Republicans… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
The Senate voted 59 to 39 in favor of an amendment I offered to the Budget Resolution calling on the Fed to… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image