United States Quotes - Page 66

The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

We [the United States] are not every other country. And models that work elsewhere may not have the same impact here.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

All the studies say that immigrants are less likely to be criminals in the United States. That's what they say. The sources are there.

There are more whooping cranes in the United States of America than there are women in Congress.

Quite often, the people who do leave their own nation and come to an unknown destination, like the United States, are inherently adventurous, so we've had that adventurous spirit that has embedded itself collectively in the American consciousness.

From the beginning, the United States has enjoyed close and valued ties with the Muslim world.

In the United States, you might say every county has got its own separate system. There's not even one kind of ballot that you use all over the United States. We require that in a foreign country.

When I look at Social Security, I consider it the most important social program in the United States, arguably the most successful program in the world.

We no longer have a free market in the United States, we have a government controlled free market.

It [military action on Iraq] makes me feel ashamed to come from the United States. It is humiliating.

In the United States, if you buy a property and you're a good citizen, and you improve that property, what do they do to you? They tax you more. So they penalize you for good behavior.

The Met is not only the finest encyclopedic museum of art in the United States; it is arguably the finest anywhere.

Because of the hegemony of fundamentalist religion in the United States, this country has been among the most resistant to the fact of human evolution.

What makes this so remarkable is that this is the first time the United States is accountable for its record on torture with regard to some of the practices implemented after 9/11.

You know, Arabs are critical of United States foreign policy, but they also associate the U.S. with democratic principles and opportunity.

Al Jazeera is demonized by the United States, yet in Egypt my father would be watching it.

There's nothing that the United States can do. Nothing that would change systems in the Middle East, nothing the United States can do that would make the Middle East a better place.

We know the Chinese have revealed millions of background information on millions of people in the United States, and these, I suppose, ultimately are part of international big-power politics.

I'm in New Mexico making a movie called "Granite Mountain." I'm playing the head of the organization called Statesman, which is the United States version of Kingsman. I'm like how Michael Caine was in the original.

The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education.

I've been critical of Hillary Clinton and [Barack] Obama, for sure. But John McCain had a proven record as a senator. He also ran for president [in 2016]. But he got a lot of stuff done while he was a United States senator and still does.

When the Soviet Union walked out of arms control negotiations, and refused even to discuss the issues, the San Francisco Democrats didn't blame Soviet intransigence. They blamed the United States.

I completely agree with Helmut Kohl. I am not an advocate of the "United States of Europe," nor am I an integration fanatic.

This is the United States of America and it's always a busy time.