Foreign Quotes
1571 quotes by 1108 authors
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Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.
— James K. Polk
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If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.
— Ward Churchill
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By reducing our dependence of foreign oil and increasing alternative energy sources such as ethanol, we can begin to bring down prices at the pumps,…
— Jim Ryun
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Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art,…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Foreign nationals entering the United States illegally who are taken into custody by the Border Protection Corps or by State or local law enforcement authorities…
— John Culberson
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I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid…
— Jackson Pollock
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Our way of living together in America is a strong but delicate fabric. It is made up of many threads. It has been woven over…
— Wendell Willkie
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No foreign policy can be sustained in the United States of America without the informed consent of the American people. And informed means just that,…
— Joe Biden
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But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve…
— Jim Clyburn
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The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's bungalow, where, armed…
— Bronislaw Malinowski
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The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.
— Ross Macdonald
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Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that…
— Eliot Spitzer
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A foreign policy aimed at the achievement of total security is the one thing I can think of that is entirely capable of bringing this…
— George F. Kennan
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Opera is like a husband with a foreign title: expensive to support, hard to understand, and therefore a supreme social challenge.
— Cleveland Amory
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An Anarchist is anyone who denies the necessity and legitimacy of government; the question of his methods of attacking it is foreign to the definition.
— Benjamin Tucker
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The "health, education, and welfare" section of government is another boondoggle. First we manufacture indigent and superfluous people by legal monopolies in land, money and…
— Laurance Labadie
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It seems that every movie is a remake of something that was better when it was first released in a foreign language, as a 1960s…
— Alan Moore
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In my fight against terrorism, to me, the biggest terrorist is Obama in the United States of America. For me, I'm trying to fight the…
— Lupe Fiasco
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Everything in our foreign and domestic policy is a question of issue for the American people to vote on.
— John Dingell
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Had drugs been decriminalized, crack would never have been invented and there would today be fewer addicts... The ghettos would not be drug-and-crime-infested no-man's lands...…
— Milton Friedman
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