Quotes of: United-states Keyword

The reason socialism has failed around the world every time it's been tried is because people in socialist countries have looked at the United States and have said if they can have it that good, we can. It's a failed, flawed ideology, but if you ask ...

Brad Thor

They don't show Olympic boxing on TV in prime time. They haven't done that since 1988. In 1992, they showed one: Oscar De La Hoya. In 1996, they didn't show it. In 2000, they didn't show it. In 2004, they didn't show it. In 2008, they did not even me...

Evander Holyfield

[Lebel arranges calls from Holland, Belgium, Italy, West Germany, South Africa, the United States and Britain] Caron: Sir, how do you know that the Jackal comes from any of these seven countries? Lebel: I don't. But he must be on file somewhere.

The Day of the Jackal

[last lines including archive footage] Warren Burger: Preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the United States, Richard Nixon: Preserve and protect and defend the constitution of the United States, Warren Burger: So help me God. Richard Nix...

All the President's Men

Just as the formation of the family is basic to the formation of the state, so the states themselves are the only units that can form the basic constitution of a viable international organization.

Leon Bourgeois

We must rid this nation of the United Nations, which provides the communist conspiracy with a headquarters here on our own shores, and which actually makes it impossible for the United States to form its own decisions about its conduct and policies i...

John T. Flynn

An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days. 'My thesis is on the survival of the class system in the United States.' 'Oh really, that's interesting: one didn't think ...

Hitch-22: A Memoir

Much as slavery in the United States was part of a larger Atlantic Slave System, so America’s War of Independence was an outgrowth of Europe’s Seven Years’ War — from 1756 to 1763 — and also a precursor or harbinger of the French and Haitia...

Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

At the heart of the American paradigm is the perception that law and its agents . . . police officers, correctional officers, attorneys and judges . . . are color-blind and thus justice is impartial, objective and seeks la verdad (the truth). But, la...

Latino Police Officers in the United States: An Examination of Emerging Trends and Issues

I'm afraid that in the United States of America today the prevailing doctrine of justification is not justification by faith alone. It is not even justification by good works or by a combination of faith and works. The prevailing notion of justificat...

Saved from What?

We need to know who's in the United States. We need to know everyone who's in the United States that comes in here from a foreign country. And we have to separate the ones who are dangerous from the ones who aren't. To accomplish that, we need a fenc...

Rudy Giuliani

If we lose those people who come to the United States and get a PhD in computer engineering for example and they can't get a visa to stay in the United States, they are sent home, not only do we lose those people working here, but we lose the opportu...

Jerry Moran

Hedley Lamarr: Wait a minute... there might be legal precedent. Of course! Land-snatching! [grabs a law book] Hedley Lamarr: Land, land... "Land: see Snatch." [flips back several pages] Hedley Lamarr: Ah, Haley vs. United States. Haley: 7, United Sta...

Blazing Saddles

I want to state unequivocally for the world, as well as for the markets, as well as for the American people: I have no doubt that we will not lose the full faith and credit of the United States.

Michele Bachmann

I've learned that the most unbelievable is the most believable.

The Great Wall of Silence: The Silent Political Takeover of the United States

The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based on international law and United Nations resolutions, and that it frantically continues to intensify building of settlements...

Mahmoud Abbas

This body, the United States Congress, was united, Republicans and Democrats alike, in taking that action, toppling the Taliban government, and working to try and root out al Qaeda and find Osama bin Laden.

Chris Van Hollen

I also believe that member states of the United Nations should live up their obligations to pay their dues.

Alex Morrison

Pita: Where are you from, Creasy? Creasy: The United States. Pita: I know, but which state? Creasy: No state in particular. Pita: My mom and me are from Houston, Texas. Have you been there? Creasy: No.

Man on Fire

The best government is that which governs least.

United States Magazine, Or, General Repository of Useful Instruction and Rational Amusement.

When describing the University of Virginia: Here, We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.

Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United States of America, Bill of Rights and Constitutional Amendments (Including Images of Original