States Quotes

I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.

The United States spends more money on African aid than any nation on earth.

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States.

Canada and the United States are also working at the World Trade Organization and in our own hemisphere with negotiations for a Trade Area of the Americas to try to help countries create a positive climate for investment and trade.

Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.

We have to fight radical Islam wherever it exists. It's in Afghanistan, it's in Saudi Arabia, throughout the Middle-East in big numbers and it's in the United States.

I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations.

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

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

I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see.

The music scene is more competitive in the States.

I readily admit I was not an expert on foreign policy but I was knowledgeable and I didn't need a man who was the Vice President of the United States and my opponent turning around and putting me down.

Cuba is like going to a whole other planet. It's so different but it's so similar to the United States, to Miami. It's like a doppelgaenger. It's the mirror image. And I have no doubt, that once Cuba becomes democratic, that it will be the favorite tourist destination for Americans.

I always have the feeling in these low states that something good is about to happen. That's when I feel the fullest, the rawest, the closest to myself.

You can set up whatever negotiations or structure you want, but until the Palestinians are willing to accept the fact, as the majority of Israelis do, that there should be two states between the Jordan and the Mediterranean, we won't have peace.

Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself.

A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Let me be very clear: We monitor the risks of violent extremism taking root here in the United States. We don't have the luxury of focusing our efforts on one group; we must protect the country from terrorism whether foreign or homegrown, and regardless of the ideology that motivates its violence.

If we didn't have the rest of the world growing, the United States economy would be in much worse shape than it is today.

Unfortunately, more and more Muslim voices are calling for boycotts of the United States and its products.

The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

I have lived in the United States for half of my life, my entire adult life.

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.

In most states, it's more difficult to get a license for your dog than it is to buy a big cat. Right now, there are more tigers in the state of Texas than in all of India.