United States Quotes - Page 50

The Administration of the United States is such dread I almost feel paralyzed.

Historians debate to this day whether Fidel Castro was a communist from the time he took power or only became one after he was spurned by the United States. What is not disputed is that he was always an autocrat moving ruthlessly against anyone who dared oppose him.

I have a driver in London because I am slightly dyslexic and cannot drive in the U.K.; after all, the traffic runs the opposite way to that in the United States.

Literally minutes before the Senate cast its vote, the administration sought to add the words 'in the United States and' after 'appropriate force' in the agreed-upon text. This last-minute change would have given the president broad authority to exercise expansive powers not just overseas-where we all understood he wanted authority to act-but right here in the United States, potentially against American citizens. I could see no justification for Congress to accede to this extraordinary request for additional authority. I refused.

I've been telling people for 12 years that if you want to get a nuclear device into the United States, just bring it through the port of Miami disguised as cocaine.

Listen, were losing so much manufacturing, all over the United States.

One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.

Donald Trump has encouraged Russians to cyber-hack the United States to give him an edge in an election. And that just shows how serious and seriously misguided Donald Trump is.

A president should take action to defend the United States against eminent threat. You have to. The president has to do that.

It is so painful to suggest that we go back to think about these days where an African-American could not be a citizen of the United States.

I can be president of the United States, and if I can do that, I can do anything.

Child poverty in the United States declined after the work requirement was put in there. People realized that they had to work and people went out and worked and they got off welfare.

By using general consumption PPPs, the World Bank is, in effect, saying to the poor: "Sure, you cannot buy as much food as the dollar value we attribute to your income would buy in the United States. But then you can buy much more by way of services than you could buy with this PPP equivalent in the United States." But what consolation is this? The poor do not buy services - they are services, on their luckier days.

The domestic power structure - how power is exercised in the United States, for instance - greatly influences the structure of international institutions. So, for example, the Clinton administration was very influential in shaping the WTO treaty, and, because of the way the US domestic political system works, this meant that corporations could use the US government to wield a huge influence.

President Obama has been clear about the future that the United States seeks... when it comes to the Asia-Pacific, the United States is all in.

Britain and the United States are, and will remain, strong and close partners on trade, security and defence.

The relationship of the United States with Mexico is a matter for the United States and Mexico.

To have acted otherwise ... would have been the betrayal of the interests of the United States.

For an investor who is sitting in the United States, and South Africa is very far from the United States, you need to go out to that investor to say, these are the possibilities in this particular sector.

If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.

Any country that makes U.S. service members get on their knees will feel the full force and fury of the United States of America.

You can't have anything happening today within the petro-monarchies, is going to be too risky for the United States and the oil interests there.

The United States is now The Empire. There isn't an empire; there's The Empire, and that empire is the United States.

[Pope Francis] symbolically took the migrant south-north route to the United States by going to Cuidad Juarez on the border with Texas, and there he spoke of the human dignity of immigrants.

In the United States it's not important which religion you adhere to, as long as you have one.