As of September 2012, 168 out of the 602 released Guantanamo Bay detainees are suspected of returning to terrorism. So, is this a winning scenario for the United States? Of course not.
The countries of the American continent and the adjacent islands are for the United States the natural marts of supply and demand.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
I spent four years in the United States Army between 1985 and 1989, and I certainly learned how to survive out in the woods.
I am convinced that China needs to be a strong trading partner with the United States long term.
I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels.
My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920.
Teapot Dome involved the conservation of the oil resources of the United States, especially those situated upon the public lands.
When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician.
There is no prospect that the United States will say to Israel, 'You do such and such and we'll not support you in your security.'
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.
We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible tragedy.
The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.
First, I was Bavarian State Minister of Justice, and after the ministries of justice in the various states were dissolved I became Reich Minister without portfolio.
When the United States media is paying attention, that's when you're really representing your country.
Sensation is not the conduction of a quality or state of external bodies to consciousness, but the conduction of a quality or state of our nerves to consciousness, excited by an external cause.
The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad.
The president of the United States, on Inauguration Day, takes an oath to faithfully execute the laws. Those are the laws that are passed by Congress.
We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the turquoise seas of the tropics.
As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians.
A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.
