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Guantanamo is a chief recruiting tool for al-Qaida. It has put a wedge between the United States and at least some of its allies. — Eric Holder

The United States invaded Iraq to gain control of one of the major sources of the world's energy. — Noam Chomsky

[In] the United States, we've always been held together by the belief that it doesn't matter where you came from. It matters where you're going. — Condoleezza Rice

When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it. — Elliott Abrams

You can do anything you want in the United States of you wear a suit and tie...especially if you are white. That also helps. — Betty Medsger

The EU is not going to attack the United States. Supposedly, China or the EU was doing this on the UScan you imagine what the blowout would be? — Gay Mitchell

It is now quite obvious that the humanists are using public education as the battering ram with which to destroy Christianity in the United States. — Samuel Blumenfeld

In the United States, there is no end which human will despairs of attaining through the combined power of individuals united in a society. — Alexis De Tocqueville

The 'science' for which the United States is respected has nothing to do with the unscientific and baseless theory of evolution. — Ray Comfort

The United States will have the honour of proving experimentally, that true policy goes hand in hand with moderation and humanity. — Jean-Baptiste Say

Relationships are so much like the United States - they only really thrive when faced with an external threat. — Laura Pedersen

I spent four years in the United States Army between 1985 and 1989, and I certainly learned how to survive out in the woods. — Chad Coleman

I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States. — Thomas A. Edison

Did you or did you not say that the United States was a crock of doo-doo? — Kurt Vonnegut

As journalist, I'm responsible to the American people, not to the military of the United States. — Amy Goodman

The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy. — George Washington

On the basis of both values and interests, the natural relationship between Islam and the United States is one of friendship. — Jimmy Carter

The cost of leadership," explains Lieutenant General George Flynn of the United States Marine Corps, "is self-interest. — Simon Sinek

Every technological advance we've made in the 21st century and throughout the 20th has come from the United States of America. — Phil Gramm

Most of our problems in the United States can be traced to a blatant disregard for private property. — Michael Badnarik

In 1980, it cost just under $600 to take a round-trip flight within the United States. — Peter Diamandis

All told, farmed animals in the United States produce 130 times as much waste as the human population - — Jonathan Safran Foer

If the United States doesn't lead then evil triumphs — Dennis Prager

I absolutely hate the way the United States glorifies its military and its wars. Real heroes fight for peace. — Michel Templet

The United States has, overall, the most effective system of higher education the world has ever known. — Clark Kerr

You are twice as likely to be struck by lightning as you around to be affected by a terrorist event in the United States. — Joe Biden

Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them. — Leonard Maltin

It costs about $27 million to win a seat in the United States Senate, so when you win one, you like to sit down. — Arlen Specter

Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war, only patriots - or traitors. — Stephen A. Douglas

The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America. — Madeleine Albright

You get growth in the United States, the rest of the world will grow ... — Anthony Scaramucci

There's more single-family homes rented in the United States then there are apartments. — Barry Sternlicht

Life is about love and as a country that stands united, we lose in the battle that we call love. — Jonathan Anthony Burkett

It is really about 'right versus wrong. — Anonymous

The majority of the Afghan people support a strategic partnership with the United States. — Hamid Karzai

Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars. — Nancy Mitford

Germ warfare against the United States would escalate to war against all humanity. — Yoshijiro Umezu

The reality is that nearly 80 percent of the world's purchasing power lies outside the United States, and if we don't tap those markets, others will. — John Hoeven

We say the United States is a rich country, but how can we be rich when millions of poor American children go to bed hungry? — Alexandra Paul

Founded on faith in God, the United States has been blessed as no other nation. — Jeremiah Denton

It's my first trip as president of the United States. — George W. Bush

In the United States, the more common way to initiate change has been to have consultants come in who "borrow your watch to tell you what time it is — Paul Myerson

The United States paid $7.5 million for the lands, which were divided into small parcels and sold to natives, creating a new landowning class. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

The United States in particular and the West in general should be feeling a little embarrassed about all that lecturing we did to the Third World. — Paul Krugman

If fascism ever came to the United States, it would be wrapped in an American flag. — Huey Long

Al Qaeda's central political objective is the creation of an Islamic republic, not the progressive realignment of American foreign policy. — Simon Cottee

In America, money takes the place of God. — Anzia Yezierska

Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States. — Michael Mandelbaum

In the United States there are sixteen-and-a-half square feet of mall space for every man, woman, and child. — Randy Alcorn

My goal in Baghdad was to facilitate a debate here in the United States on America's policy toward Iraq, a debate that's been sadly lacking. — Scott Ritter

With more than thirty thousand suicides a year, the act is the tenth leading cause of death in the United States. — Craig Johnson

There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States. — Ronald Reagan

The eradication of racial and religious prejudice in the United States - and in the rest of the world as well - is a long-term process. — Robert Kennedy

The United States trades more with the province of Ontario alone than with Japan. — Ronald Reagan

By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand. — George W. Bush

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. — Janet Reno

I think the terrorism watch list in the United States went over a million people some years ago. — Kim Rossmo

The problem with the Tea Party is they're all ignorant hillbillies who drink moonshine and ride around on mules. And they believe in stereotypes too. — Jon Stewart

This country is not pro-American. It is United States property. — Juan Bosch

The rules are all wrong today. The mandate of the media really does pre-date the founding of the United States. — Richard Dreyfuss

The United States influences government and life everywhere else. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

My guest Newt Gingrich shut down the government during the Clinton administration. I'll ask him when it's gonna start working again. — Stephen Colbert

The "coalition against terrorism" means the United States. It does not wish anyone else to interfere with its strategy. — Tariq Ali

The United States of America was formed to honor the word of God. — Rafael Cruz

It is hard to talk about a middle ground for something that is a fundamental right. — Teri Reynolds

Israel can't make peace without the clear support of the United States. — Alan Dershowitz

The United States is not, nor has ever been, anything close to a fascist country. — Timothy Noah

The president of the United States and his secretary of state were made honorary Hebrews. — Julius Streicher

Everything that I will ever accomplish, I owe to God, to my parent's sacrifices, and to the United States of America. — Marco Rubio

Law in the United States is at once a powerful medium and a medium for power. — Catharine MacKinnon

Success in the United States is not an entitlement in China. You have to go there and earn it, and earn it the right way. — Howard Schultz

New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.) — Nora Ephron

We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Britain. — Cindy Sheehan

We want to remember that America is at its best when it's struggling to live up to its stated ideals. — Lonnie Bunch

Cardiovascular disease remains the #1 killer of people in the United States today - accounting for more deaths than all forms of cancer combined. — Steven Masley

It's only in the United States that they make a big deal about nudity. — Christopher Atkins

The United States always seems to have a way of playing the international cop of the world. — Jason Medina

We saw the president of the United States engage American troops in a fourth conflict in a foreign land. This is historic. — Michele Bachmann

The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty. — Nathaniel Branden

Sen. Obama is a decent person and a person you don't have to be scared of as president of the United States. — John McCain

One third of the land in the United States is owned by the government. — Na

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not. — Rand Paul

What are the implications of a China that may be on nuclear parity with the United States? — Charles Bass

The United States did not choose to fight Islamic extremists. These terrorists chose to fight our way of life. They chose to challenge our existence. — John Boehner

The United States is a Christian nation founded upon Christian principles and beliefs. — George W. Bush

The United States must keep what it has - diversity and tolerance - which make us what we are. — Georgie Anne Geyer

In the corporeal world, international law is whatever the United States and Great Britain say it is. — Ann Coulter

George W. Bush is the first Catholic president of the United States. — Rick Santorum

Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England. — Stephen Gardiner

Women are in many ways second-class citizens in the United States in 2016, because of the way that we're portrayed in popular culture. — Geena Davis

And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school. — James T. Walsh

At one point in my practice, of the 10 largest homebuilders in the United States, seven of the 10 were my clients. — William Krisel

Communism feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men's minds and souls. This shall not take root in the United States. — Emanuel Celler

Largely because of a shortage of ammunition, the United States would be entirely unable to undertake major military operations for at least a year. — David E. Kaiser

We have gutted our ability to detect the next attack. And I would not stand for that as president of the United States. — Lindsey Graham

What changed in the United States with Hurricane Katrina was a feeling that we have entered a period of consequences. — Al Gore

Until we have a legitimate labor market between Mexico and the United States, people will attempt to come here to work. — Alan Bersin

The constitution shall never be construed ... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms. — Alexander Hamilton

It's alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States. — Vladimir Putin

Prolific irony - For 8 years, the finger on the button that could end the world belonged to a president who couldn't pronounce the word nuclear. — T. Rafael Cimino