“For the same reason , the American government has invented a completely new juridical category , that of 'illegal enemy combatants'. In… — Tzvetan Todorov Copy Share Image
“vividly revealed the arms industry’s ‘constant tendency towards bribery, and the playing off of one country against another to sell arms’. It… — Andrew Feinstein Copy Share Image
“Are they a secret part of the American government or a powerful private corporation? Is there a difference? To me, it doesn’t… — Nnedi Okorafor Copy Share Image
“When we examine, not the language of the propaganda, but the witness of the combatants themselves, religion does not occupy the first… — Tzvetan Todorov Copy Share Image
With almost no time to decide, [your loved ones] gave the entire country an incalculable gift. They saved the Capitol from attack.… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
No. But then the American Government--whatever branch--has never really grasped the concept of tribal identity. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Whatever his disappointments, Hamilton, forty, must have left Philadelphia with an immense feeling of accomplishment. The Whiskey Rebellion had been suppressed, the… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“American breweries preexisted American government; some of the breweries’ staunchest supporters were also the leaders of the new nation. In colonial America,… — Marty Nachel Copy Share Image
I know these days it sounds a little odd, but American governments are very fearful of European reaction. They were afraid we… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
“In 1786, Jefferson, then the American ambassador to France, and Adams, then the American ambassador to Britain, met in London with Sidi… — Walid Shoebat Copy Share Image
“So we Europeans are shocked by the blind, uncomprehending hard-heartedness that certain American government policies imply. I am thinking of the terrible… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“Those men who laid the foundation of this American government and signed the Declaration of Independence were the best spirits the God… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
“Imagine this scenario: the Medellin cocaine cartel of Colombia mounts a successful military offensive against the United States, then forces the U.S.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Intelligent beings from other planets regularly visit our world in an effort to enter into contact with us. NASA and the American… — Gordon Cooper Copy Share Image
I would like to see transparency become the default for the American government: Abolish the Freedom of Information Act so we don't… — Jeff Jarvis Copy Share Image
This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“In 1904, the American government spent $1.5 million taking thirteen hundred Filipinos from a dozen different tribes to the St. Louis Exposition.… — Claire Prentice Copy Share Image
The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue,… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
What [Barack Obama] and I did was to say clearly what we're doing, all the bluster, all of the sanctions, that are… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“On top of these programs, the foundation doled out $8 million to more than a hundred John M. Olin faculty fellows. These… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
The wall is not a bilateral issue. It's not something that we discuss with the American government. Every country has a sovereign… — Luis Videgaray Caso Copy Share Image
American government is not dominated by engineers, it is dominated by lawyers. Engineers are interested in substance and building things; lawyers are… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image