United Quotes · Page 226

In the States, the HIV transmission from mother to child is almost completely preventable - the only mothers who really do transmit…

— Annie Lennox

Conservatives believe that international institutions such as the United Nations are anti-American and anti-Israeli cabals. Progressives do not like the economic medicine…

— Michael Ignatieff

Yesterday, December 7, 1941 a date which will live in infamy the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Our shared histories and common values make us natural trading partners and we will continue to work with both the United Kingdom…

— Justin Trudeau

Americans must outgrow the unbecoming arrogance that leads us to assert that America somehow owns a monopoly on goodness and truth -…

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

The Congress has had an uneasy relationship with banks and bankers since Alexander Hamilton. It took the United States until 1913 to…

— Robert Zoellick

In 1850, I believe, the church property in the United States, which paid no tax, amounted to $87 million. In 1900, without…

— Ulysses S. Grant

The world, and the great and free United States in particular, is full of narrow-minded, ignorant, moronic, bigoted, cowardly, self-righteous, anemic, pig-headed,…

— Gertrude Atherton

In the United States...politics is purged of all menace, all sinister quality, all genuine significance, and stuffed with such gorgeous humors, such…

— H. L. Mencken

You've got some very powerful countries: Poland, the United Kingdom, Sweden and others who have a genuine desire to see the euro…

— Nick Clegg

To the love of pleasure we may therefore ascribe most of the agreeable, to the love of action we may attribute most…

— Edward Gibbon

When that which loves is united to the thing beloved it can rest there; when the burden is laid down it finds…

— Leonardo da Vinci

In the United States, except for slaves, servants and the destitute fed by townships, everyone has the vote and this is an…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

For Mexicans, for Americans, we are all united by 3,000 kilometers of border, with neighboring states - ten neighbors states, and with…

— Enrique Pena Nieto

The criminal justice system is accurately symbolized by a large sculpture that sits at the foot of the United States attorney's building:…

— Jonathan Larson

As a state, as a government, in 2001 we proposed to the United Nations to empty or to get rid of every…

— Bashar al-Assad

You know, I get frustrated with our country's administration, which is really the people who are not acknowledging global warming. I mean,…

— Jerry Greenfield

I think Iran is a very dangerous country - very dangerous to Israel, to the Middle East, and also to the United…

— Dutch Ruppersberger

Because I had visited Silicon Valley, I recognized the microprocessor was going to lead the second industrial revolution. We Chinese could not…

— Stan Shih

We've ceased making progress at the top in any industry anywhere in the world . In the United States, women have had…

— Sheryl Sandberg

The United States stands with our friends in Britain as they recover from today's shock of terrorism. These barbaric acts strengthen our…

— Mark Foley

The Church's challenge is staying close to the people, close to the people of the United States, not being a detached Church…

— Pope Francis

The following [addition to the Bill of Rights] would have pleased me: The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their…

— Thomas Jefferson

In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don’t care about my cinema. In Europe they don’t know my poetry;…

— Jonas Mekas

I think every kid grows up wanting to play for Manchester United. I never thought I'd be able to play against them,…

— Daniel James

The United Nations passed so-called sanctions again on North Korea, and they've said they 'will exercise their preemptive right to a nuclear…

— Oliver North

Our President feels, and apparently many in the United Nations Security Council feel, that it is necessary to disarm Iraq before Iraq…

— Richard Armitage

We face the gravest threat that civilization has ever confronted. It's global in nature and requires a global solution. Increased CO2 emissions…

— Al Gore

The lover is moved by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which perceives, and it unites with it and…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of…

— Frantz Fanon

But last year there were 540,000 people, roughly, detained coming across the border illegally. Forty-five thousand of them came from countries other…

— John Cornyn

The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could; it is not an animate entity or agent. It is a place, a…

— Conor Cruise O'Brien

The forces are different up here at the continental divide. The magnetic lines of energy run in specific directions. The United States…

— Frederick Lenz

Good men and women can be mobilized to ensure that South Africa is united and that the spirit of reconciliation is strengthened…

— Nelson Mandela

In full accordance with the law - and in order to prevent terrorist attacks on the United States and to save American…

— John O. Brennan

If ever there was one player, anywhere in the world, that was made for Manchester United, it was Cantona. He swaggered in,…

— Alex Ferguson

United States Government needs to acknowledge and respect our sovereignty, treaties, traditional Native American values, and our human rights as a people,…

— Leonard Peltier

In his years in Washington, Senator Kerry has been one vote of a hundred in the United States Senate - and fortunately…

— Dick Cheney

To make an omelette, you need not only those broken eggs but someone 'oppressed' to beat them: every revolutionist is presumed to…

— Joan Didion

Nothing whatever but the constitutional law, the political structure, of these United States protects any American from arbitrary seizure of his property…

— Rose Wilder Lane