President Barack Obama's administration sometimes finds itself at odds with members of Congress who oppose nearly everything the United Nations does on principle.
Understand who you are, so that you can be the same, whether you're talking to a homeless person or the president of the United States. You're the same person.
The long-term strategic goals of Iran and the long-term strategic goals of Turkey are close to the long-term strategic goals of the United States.
The difficulty that many foreign authors face in having their works translated into English has effects far beyond the United States.
The United States is holding hundreds of suspected terrorists in prisons at Guantanamo and elsewhere. Many are locked up indefinitely. They have not been tried or even charged with any crime.
Custody and guardianship by the parent of his child does not arise under the Constitution, laws or treaties of the United States and is not dependent on them.
The most important thing I learned at the University of Florida is that a Ph.D. and writing papers is very important in the United States.
To date, nearly 100,000 Hispanics have died with AIDS. Since Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the United States, our challenge is even greater.
If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.
I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.
My goal in Baghdad was to facilitate a debate here in the United States on America's policy toward Iraq, a debate that's been sadly lacking.
In the United Nations, when China entered, we voted on the same position, and since then we have maintained the same position, that position has not changed.
Almost a century has passed since Japan first entered the world community by concluding a treaty of amity with the United States of America in 1854.
I, for one, begin with intent. There is no question that, Saddam Hussein had intent to do harm to the Western alliance and to the United States of America.
But here's the bottom line, the president of the United States, he controls the bully pulpit, he can talk about anything he wants to talk about.
Here in the United States, we have between 250 and 300 years of a coal supply. That is more than the amount of recoverable oil contained in the entire world.
I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
One of the enduring mysteries of America's occupation of Iraq is why a nation that so little relishes peacekeeping nonetheless refuses to turn the job over to the United Nations.
Without the three-fifths rule, there wouldn't have been a Constitution of the United States - not one that governed the American South, at any rate - because the South wouldn't have ratified it.
Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.
The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the states in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being.