United States Quotes - Page 56

I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think precisely because I wasn't born into it.

We want the world's largest economies, including the United States, to be part of a global arrangement. An approach in which only some are committed to acting cannot be environmentally effective.

Many Europeans, while admiring the strength and power of the American economy, undoubtedly feel that the system of social values which prevails in the United States, manifested in the acute problems evident in the inner cities and the level of violent crime, for example, leaves much to be desired.

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.

The United States being in Asia is unambiguously a good thing for the region.

There is $1.4 billion a day in trade that goes back and forth across the border. That means millions of jobs and livelihoods for families here in Canada and for families in the United States.

I condemn all statements - made in sincerity or jest - that threaten or suggest the use of violence against the president of the United States or any other public official. Such rhetoric cannot and will not be tolerated.

If passed by the U.N. and ratified by the U.S. Senate, the U.N. Small Arms Treaty would almost certainly force the United States to... create an international gun registry, setting the stage for full-scale gun confiscation.

[Insurgents] pose no strategic threat to the United States or to the Coalition Forces.

These people hate the United States, not for what we do, but for who we are and what we are.

It has been estimated that even in the absence of net investment, the mere substitution of modern machinery for worn-out equipment in the United States would cause an annual productivity increase of approximately 1.5 percent.

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

To get asked to do stuff like 'United States Of Tara' and 'Caprica' is terrific. I can't complain.

In the United States we have more women in poverty than any other industrialized nation.

The United States has more women and girls in prison than any other industrialized nation on earth.

The world has changed, and the United States needs to change with it.

I am indebted to the press of the United States for almost every dollar which I possess.

In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in good health to make money.

If the dollar weakens, then presumably all the things that we make in the United States - Buicks, for instance - can be sold cheap all over the world, and everyone will be buying our goods, and we'll get all sorts of yen-denominated, or yuan-denominated, or euro-denominated securities, and then everybody else will be worried.

What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.

English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market.

By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers.

I don't think I will ever do any tours again in the United States. I rather think that that's over with.

The Smithsonian Institute is one of the most popular agencies of government in the United States.

The United States is alone among all the countries in that it does not permit US military forces to be under any threat. Other countries are willing to have forces in peace-keeping operations where they sometimes are under threat, but the US is not willing to do that.