United States Quotes - Page 57

United States has comparative advantage in military force. It tends to react to anything at first with military force, that's what it's good at. And I think they overdid it. There was more military force than was necessary.

Real wages for male workers in the United States are about what they were in the '60s.

In the United States everyone is an illegal immigrant - everyone except the people in Indian Reservations. This is an immigrant society.

The major organizing centers, like the labor movement, have been severely weakened in the United States by policy.

The [Barack] Obama administration has pressured Mexico to keep them away from the Mexican border, so that they don't succeed in reaching the United States. Pretty much the same thing Europeans have done to Turks and Syrians.

Yes, and Syrians. There is a horrible crisis there and the United States has admitted virtually none of the refugees.

When Nazi emissaries came to the United States, they were welcomed at Harvard.

After World War II there were many Jews who remained in refugee camps...President Harry F. Truman called for the Harrison Commission to investigate the situation in the camps and it was a pretty gloomy report. There were very few Jews admitted into the United States.

I don't think that the United States cares. They just assume that North Korea will soon have nuclear weapons.

The criminalization of Black life was something specific to the United States in the post-Reconstruction period and there's something like it happening today with mass incarceration, directed largely against black males.

The United States is going to continue to punish Iran because of its defiance.

Parts of the United States are taking on a Third World look.

The United States is the Godfather when it establishes edicts. Others had better live up to them, or else. We have to demonstrate that. So that's what the bombing of Syria was to have demonstrated.

In the United States, and to a certain extent in Canada, there's very little interest in what happens outside their borders.

They [the union] were members of the Communist Party - they didn't care one way or another about Russia, they just cared about the United States.

The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place.

In 1961, the United States began chemical warfare in Vietnam, South Vietnam, chemical warfare to destroy crops and livestock. That went on for seven years. The level of poison - they used the most extreme carcinogen known: dioxin. And this went on for years.

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.

Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the 'Wall Street Journal.'

Greece has been, in many ways, a partially dysfunctional society. For example, the wealthy barely pay taxes... to an extent, that's true elsewhere, including the United States, but it's been pretty extreme in Greece.

In many respects, the United States is the freest country in the world. I don't just mean in terms of limits on state coercion, though that's true too, but also in terms of individual relations. The United States comes closer to classlessness in terms of interpersonal relations than virtually any society.

Where are the drug cartels getting their weapons? They are being provided by the United States. Cut off that flow of arms.

In fact, a rather striking aspect of business propaganda in the United States is the demonization of government, starting after the Second World War.

There are many terrorist states in the world, but the United States is unusual in that it is officially committed to international terrorism.

I don't regard fundamentalism in the United States or in Europe as a terrible threat, partly because it is a self-curing disease. The younger generation drifts away, so fundamentalists always have to recruit to keep up with themselves.