United States Quotes

I sketched North America onto my crude and now crowded map, and Hao was astounded to learn that it was not a piece of Europe, as he had always assumed.

~ Howard W. French

Somehow, all the talk about tenure and anthropology had given her visions of a thick-walled, libraried adobe, the kind of place that was covered with kilim rugs and fertility sculptures. The white stucco in front of her looked only slightly more substantial than a roadside weigh station.

~ Mira Jacob

But the truth is that I never had to search for a role model. I was the son of George Bush.

~ George W. Bush

Our laws are like the software that runs our country. All the laws for a country, together, are called its legal code, just like computer software is written using code.

~ Liz Long

Those were comfortable, carefree years. The word I’d use now is idyllic. On Friday nights, we cheered on the Bulldogs of Midland High. On Sunday mornings, we went to church. Nobody locked their doors. Years later, when I would speak about the American Dream, it was Midland I had in mind.

~ George W. Bush

While working in California, I met William Valentiner and Edgar Richardson of the Detroit Institute of Arts. I mentioned a desire which I had to paint a series of murals about the industries of the United States, a series that would constitute a new kind of plastic poem, depicting in color and form the story of each industry and its division of labor. Dr. Valentiner was keenly interested, considering my idea a potential base for a new school of modern art in America, as related to the social structure of American life as the art of the Middle Ages had been related to medieval society.

~ Diego Rivera

Official Washington cannot tell the American people that the real purpose of its gargantuan military expenditures and belligerent interventions is to make the world safe for General Motors, General Electric, General Dynamics, and all the other generals.

~ Michael Parenti

Can't wait for tomorrow when I get to exercise my patriotic duty as an American: Complaining about how long it's taking to VOTE.

~ Stephen Colbert

The world became more aware that America-despite being the hope of many who have the personal drive and ambition to become part of the American dream-is beset by serious operational challenges: a massive and growing national debt, widening social inequality, a cornucopian culture that worships materialism, a financial system given to greedy speculation, and a polarized political system

~ Zbigniew Brzeziński

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

I'd like to vote for the candidate similar to the one the Right absurdly claims Obama is.

~ Glenn Greenwald

The ongoing changes in the distribution of global power and mounting global strife make it all the more imperative that America not retreat into an ignorant garrison-state mentality or wallow in self-righteous cultural hedonism

~ Zbigniew Brzeziński

The New START accord cuts the strategic nuclear arsenals on each side to 1,550 warheads. Can any of its critics make a case that our security would be imperiled if, the very next day, Obama and Medvedev made moves to take the levels down to 1,000—then to 500?If so, come show us the math. If not, it may be time to stop making arms control so politically complicated—time to stop letting arms control get in the way of disarmament.

~ Fred Kaplan

A number I'd love to know: the % of those now saying 'we have to vote Obama to stop an attack on Iran' who will support one if Obama does it.

~ Glenn Greenwald

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.

~ Gore Vidal

Forgot to live-tweet the election last night, so I'm post-tweeting today. I'll start as soon as my fingers unclench from their rage fists.

~ Stephen Colbert

To those who will decide if he should be tried for 'high crimes and misdemeanors' -the House of Representatives-And to those who would sit in judgment at such a trial if the House impeaches -the Senate-And to the man who would preside at such an impeachment trial -the Chief Justice of the United States, Warren Burger-And to the nation...The President said, 'I want you to know that I have no intention whatever of ever walking away from the job that the American people elected me to do for the people of the United States.'- Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward

~ Carl Bernstein

With each passing day, I become more and more convinced that the greatest threat to American freedom is the United States government.

~ Michelle Templet

It's August, which means Congress is on recess and Mitch McConnell has shimmied back into the ocean to seek a mate.

~ Stephen Colbert

The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps.

~ Johann Hari

I'm saying the American way is to overcome, to conquer, to come out on top. And we do it by spending and eating and screwing our women harder than anyone else. That's all I'm saying.

~ Neil Labute

Sneaky and underhanded, the Federal Reserve has been sucking the life blood out of the United States since 1913. Like a black widow spider, it weaves a web of corruption and deceit. Unknown to its prey, the FED's bite is poisonous, deep, long-lasting and brings financial upheaval and misery to Americans.

~ Jim Mccarthy