Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Hunter Austin

Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.

Patty Murray

Guess what - I am one of the ONLY senators in the whole United States Senate that is computer literate!

Preet Bharara

The alarm bells sound regularly: cybergeddon; the next Pearl Harbor; one of the greatest existential threats facing the United States. With increasing frequency, these are the grave terms officials invoke about the menace of cybercrime - and they're not understating the threat.

Gerald R. Ford

Let us remember that our national unity is a most priceless asset.

Gerald R. Ford

We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.

Harold Bloom

I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.

Haile Selassie

Unity should be the cornerstone of relations

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Mankind is a single body and each nation a part of that body. We must never say "What does it matter to me if some part of the world is ailing?" If there is such an illness, we must concern ourselves with it as though we were having that illness.

Milton Friedman

The Great Depression in the United States was caused - I won't say caused, was enormously intensified and made far worse than it would have been by bad monetary policy.

Nathan Deal

Births to illegal immigrants now account for nearly one out of every ten births in the United States.

Muqtada al Sadr

Anyone supported by the United States is cursed by us.

Katie Couric

The whole culture of wearing flags on our lapel and saying 'we' when referring to the United States and, even the 'shock and awe' of the initial stages, it was just too jubilant and just a little uncomfortable.

Margaret Thatcher

What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration; second, the desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom; and third, European unity has been tried before, and the outcome was far from happy.

He rammed a unit and then fled on foot.

Jay Weatherill

You don't get unity by ignoring the questions that have to be faced.

That unit was headquartered out of New Orleans.

They're watching Katrina. They're watching Rita. They're watching what it's doing to the United States.

The United States transportation system is the envy of the world.

The United States, of course, in the late 19th century was extraordinarily corrupt.

Henry David Thoreau

The squeaking of the pump sounds as necessary as the music of the spheres.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it!

Herbert Hoover

Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.

James A. Garfield

There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.

Christopher Hitchens

One of the reasons I decided to apply for American citizenship after something like a quarter of century of living here on a British, European Union passport and a green card, was my identification with the United States in the post-September 11th period.

Fulton J. Sheen

All love craves unity.

George Carey

In my time as Archbishop of Canterbury I've seen a growing sense of unity and mission.

Gary Numan

I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm well aware it has plenty of problems, though they seem to be associated with particular areas.

Fareed Zakaria

The United States needs serious change in its fiscal, entitlement, infrastructure, immigration, and education policies, among others. And yet a polarized and often paralyzed Washington has pushed dealing with these problems off into the future, which will only make them more difficult and expensive to solve.

Jeffrey Goldberg

There's nothing that the United States can do. Nothing that would change systems in the Middle East, nothing the United States can do that would make the Middle East a better place.

Jim Bishop

Perhaps the best thing which can be said about newspapers in the United States is that they are in chronic disagreement with each other. That is what is meant by a free press.

Jesse Helms

The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the UN.

Stephen Lewis

The United Nations has a lot of capacity on the ground.

Nikita Khrushchev

The thought sometimes -- the unpleasant thought sometimes creeps up on me here as to whether perhaps Khrushchev was not invited here to enable you to sort of rub him in your sauce and to show the might and the strength of the United States so as to make him sort of ... so as to make him shaky at the knees. If that is so, then if I came -- if it took me about 12 hours to get here, I guess it'll just -- it'll take no more than about 10½ hours to fly back.