Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.

Bianca Jagger

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.

Isabel Allende

I never thought that I would come to live in the United States. I was not pursuing the American dream.

Marianne Williamson

As citizens of the United States, we are stewards of this magnificent thing called democracy.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

There is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America.

Any confrontation, such as a verbal one with the United States, would be harmful for everybody.

Colin Powell

The United States has every intention of continuing to do the kind of reconnaissance and surveillance work we have done for decades, well known to everyone, that is essential to protect our national security, and frankly, the security of our friends in various regions of the world. It is part of our collection system.

Colin Powell

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

Well, yeah we do. We've got friends all over the United States.

No, the United States does not target civilians.

We will be requesting his extradition from the United Kingdom.

This unites all the children's names, ... This unites all the victims.

F. Lee Bailey

I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'

Unbridled capitalism in the United States can't be sustained socially. It leads to tensions.

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.

Harold Bloom

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

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.

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.

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.

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.