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The United States has become great because we, as a people, have been able to work together for great objectives even while differing about details.
The United States ranks 14th in the world in education. Even if we subtract Sarah Palin's test scores, it only bumps us to third. Damn you, Finland!
To say that Sputnik gave rise to some concern in the United States would be the understatement of the century. The truth is that the US went apeshit
There are thirty to forty thousand left-wing professors in the United States who are racists, murderers, sexual deviants and supporters of Al-Qaeda.
Central bankers got it right in the United States in 1987 when they avoided deflationary pressures as well as serious trouble in the banking system.
America has made it very clear in several administrations that if there is an attack by China on Taiwan, the United States is very likely to resist.
If the United States and China can accommodate each other on a broad range of issues, the prospects for stability in Asia will be greatly increased.
I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.
For the United States, the ACA is a revolution, an enormous set of changes that many see as a huge step forward and many others see as a wrong turn.
To hear the amount of hate that people have in the United States is disheartening. However, I still have hope that we have not reached the pinnacle.
If you look back through history in the United States, there have been very few landslide elections. Half the country always voted for someone else.
The United States is a land of free speech. Nowhere is speech freer - not even here where we sedulously cultivate it even in its most repulsive form.
The reality is that nearly 80 percent of the world's purchasing power lies outside the United States, and if we don't tap those markets, others will.
It is the professed goal [of U.S. multinational corporations] to control as large a share of the world market as they do of the United States market.
In fact, a rather striking aspect of business propaganda in the United States is the demonization of government, starting after the Second World War.
If you destroyed half the pharmaceutical production in the United States, we'd think it's a pretty serious problem. In fact, we'd probably go to war.
Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not a priori a crime.
Most of the European leaders look at themselves as having to follow the United States, because if the US opposes them, there will be a regime change.
The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.
The comparatively greater prosperity of the United States is an outcome of the fact that the New Deal did not come in 1900 or 1910, but only in 1933.
The United States cannot continue to lose vast amounts of business, vast amounts of companies, and millions and millions of people losing their jobs.
The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.
English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market.
Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.
The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to bring federal spending under control.
The scandal isn't that refugees want to come to the United States. It's that Trump is abusing these aspiring Americans and closing our doors to them.
A fictional, but all too real, look at extremist militias in the United States and the extent to which some of them go to carry out their 'missions'.
What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s - was pro-American stability.
When it comes to international trade, the question is, who is going to write the rules, the United States or China? And my vote is the United States.
Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.
I don't think that the United States has the bulk of the responsibility. I really put that on Bashar Assad and on the Iraqis and on the region itself.
The United States, obviously, has a great interest in helping to maintain peace and security in Europe, and we have a formal alliance, NATO, to do so.
The Constitution says that troops can be in the Philippines if there's a treaty that provides for it, and we have two treaties with the United States.
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.
To my mind, the main reason for the Depression in the United States as a whole, is the bondage of debt and the spirit of speculation among the people.
It appalls me that the people who decide what Americans will be watching on the tube have never been to the United States. Not the real United States.
I never use the concept, multipolar. I use multilateral. Because we have only one global power: whether you like it or not, this is the United States.
And being forceful with the United States and not letting the United States have its way, is always good politics in the Russian domestic environment.
Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment.
I'm raising a daughter. I want to be able to say to her, "You can be anything you want. You can be the President of the United States." I'd love that.
The idea that the United States government would have to figure out what to do about the headscarf is simply ludicrous. We don't get involved in that.
It's very, very humbling, and I couldn't be more honored to have the opportunity to run with, and serve with, the next president of the United States.
In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.
I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States.
The intelligence activities undertaken by the United States government are lawful, necessary and required to protect Americans from terrorist attacks.
If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.
My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target. The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
The United States is not nearly so concerned that its acts be kept secret from its intended victims as it is that the American people not know of them.
The United States is the only advanced country that permits the pharmaceutical industry to charge exactly what the market will bear, whatever it wants.
We have to be realistic about what we can achieve in Afghanistan. The notion that the United States can build a Western-style democracy there is a myth