United states Quotes · Page 47

Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four.

— Chris Rock

African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.

— Jefferson Davis

I was the United States Attorney for Maine for three years, and then was appointed a federal judge.

— George J. Mitchell

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

— Richard M. Nixon

The United States should encourage Israel to take further steps to improve the Palestinian economy.

— Elliott Abrams

I will not let somebody who traffics in bigotry and bullying become president of the United States.

— Hillary Clinton

Al Qaeda will always focus on us, the United States. And they will take advantage of any situation.

— Dutch Ruppersberger

When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician.

— George Papandreou

Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war; only patriots and…

— Stephen A. Douglas

A transplanted Irishman, German, Englishman is an American in one generation. A transplanted African is not one in five!

— Barbara Chase-Riboud

I'm a United States senator, and I have a responsibility to the people of my state - also to the people of…

— Bernie Sanders

The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.

— Robert A. Heinlein

As the United States attorney in Manhattan, I have come to worry about few things as much as the gathering cyber threat.

— Preet Bharara

Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median wage in the United States, adjusted for inflation, keeps on dropping.

— Robert Reich

A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States… [we] must design a stable, low-consumption economy.

— John Holdren

God did not burden the United States with a diversity of backgrounds, ideas and religions, He blessed America with them.

— Emanuel Cleaver

The States which form the northern border of the United States westward from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast include an…

— John Moody

I read that 36% of Latin kids drop out of high school, and we're the most bullied minority in schools right now.…

— John Leguizamo

A generation ago, three-quarters of the money used to buy food in the United States was spent to prepare meals at home.…

— Eric Schlosser

Abortion on demand, throughout the full nine months of a pregnancy, for virtually any reason, became public policy in the United States…

— Robert Casey

In our own times, a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States. Americans are more likely to…

— Elena Kagan

I remember when the Cold War ended, how quickly the United States was swept by a nationalistic fervor and turned against Saddam…

— Connie Zweig

It is changing the face of terrorism. It is basically bringing it to the United States, to our great citizens. It is…

— Hugh Shelton

Here in the United States, corporations has human rights. And then why not - why not nature also, if corporations can defend…

— Eduardo Galeano

When I ran against George Bush Sr. in 1992, and we did very well in New Hampshire, and then we went on…

— Pat Buchanan

We need a leader who can lower taxes, protect small businesses, and increase job creation nationwide. I have no doubt that John…

— Katie Barberi

We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of…

— George Washington

The survey of more than 100 waterways downstream from treatment plants and animal feedlots in 30 states found minute amounts of dozens…

— Andrew Revkin

If we trace origins of anarchism in the United States, then probably Henry David Thoreau is the closest you can come to…

— Howard Zinn

Beside the two wars he inherited in Iraq and Afghanistan, and promised to end, a financial crisis at home had pushed the…

— Barack Obama

Since 1981, after our nations severed diplomatic relations, we've worked through a international tribunal to resolve various claims between our countries. The…

— Barack Obama

What must be addressed in the most immediate sense is the threat that the emerging police state in the United States poses…

— Henry Giroux

I've dreamed of playing professionally in the United States as a woman ever since I could remember.

— Kelsey Plum

Pakistan was once called the most allied ally of the United States. We are now the most non-allied.

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

I don't think the United States has done anything whatsoever to merit any criticism by the British.

— John Mahoney

In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States.

— Edwidge Danticat

The biggest industry hoax is that the United States can't move to renewable energy now. It's a lie.

— Mark Ruffalo

The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life.

— Robert Torricelli

The United States has more women and girls in prison than any other industrialized nation on earth.

— Patricia Arquette

The feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources.

— Pearl S. Buck