Quotes of: United-nations Keyword

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.

Umberto Eco

The UN could help the Iraqi government get on its feet and help the United States withdraw a bit more.

Brent Scowcroft

As is natural with contiguous states having like institutions and like aims of advancement and development, the friendship of the United States and Mexico has been constantly maintained.

Chester A. Arthur

Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.

Irwin Shaw

Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States.

Jerzy Kosinski

The U.S. should be equally responsible for diminishing the cocaine market within the United States as it is in fighting the drug elsewhere.

Evo Morales

I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'

F. Lee Bailey

I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.

George Best

The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.

George W. Bush

The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.

Carlos Fuentes

The United States can't impose democracies. We can't impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan.

Chuck Hagel

I had a career for 25 years in Australia before I ever came to the United States.

Helen Reddy

Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.

Ice T

My priority is to give the United States the kind of influence it should have.

John Bolton

It's proper and appropriate to remind the Chinese about what they get out of solid relations with the United States.

John Breaux

I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States, because of that terror of discrimination.

Josephine Baker

In fact, street gangs are the primary distributor of illegal drugs in the United States.

Dave Reichert

The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks.

Dean Rusk

The United States Postal Service is the world's most efficient postal system.

Diane Watson

The United States should encourage Israel to take further steps to improve the Palestinian economy.

Elliott Abrams

And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934.

Edwidge Danticat