It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you...

When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it.

I have a problem with state lines, anyway. They interrupt things. They fragment ecosystems, which are nature’s most gracious and logical land divisions.

The liberties and freedoms which we hold dear and we recognize and cherish and respect guide the way we gather information in the United States.

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.

It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information...

If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.

The United States was an innocent victim after September 11. It had never attacked or occupied Afghanistan. So therefore it had no choice but to go after the aggressors.

We believe content relationships are compelling draws even where paid-TV-provided guides are prevalent, such as here in the United States.

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

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago’s South Side to the West Side.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

What happened in Queensland is that people are facing high unemployment relative to other states – 5.7 per cent when I last checked.

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

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.

My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation.

In the States, entrepreneurs inspire a lot of people and are respected for creating jobs. That makes people dream and feel happy for their country.

Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.

If I can get on the presidential ballot in all 50 states and be allowed into the debates, I’d not only run, I’d win.

I left Colombia because Univision brought me to the United States.

So I built my entire career in the United States and that’s why it feels like I’m an American actor.

People are not trying to get into China, they’re trying to get out of China. The United States is the only great country where people are trying to get into to this country for obvious...

There should be resolutions adopted in top international institutions, which are binding on all states and governments in the world, to forbid the defamation of religions.

We played the same thing in Europe we played in the States.

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.

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

No, the United States does not target civilians.

China should be another United States from an economic standpoint. Beijing should be another Silicon Valley.

When you are running for the presidency of the United States, you have to expect that you are going to have attacks by all sides.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

Michigan, with its delicious American name. How lucky one must be to live there.

Unlike the federal government, most states don’t have the option of running a deficit.

Pakistan is an old ally of the United States.

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.

In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States.

Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

Unfortunately, more and more Muslim voices are calling for boycotts of the United States and its products.

The United States is a key ally, a strategic partner, and a reliable friend of the Philippines.

The countries of the American continent and the adjacent islands are for the United States the natural marts of supply and demand.

One demonstration of extremists, any more than a Ku Klux Klan demonstration in the United States, is not necessarily reflective of what the rest of the country feels.

What I don’t like is judges legislating from the bench. And as president of the United States, I will appoint justices who uphold the Constitution and who don’t see themselves as a super legislature.

Annual state spending alone for prison facilities is now estimated at about $52 to $62 billion, the bulk of which is spent building new facilities; operating and maintaining more prisons; providing food and health care...

In particular, the efforts to reestablish peace after the World War have been directed toward the formation of states and the regulation of their frontiers according to a consciously national program.

The United States gave me opportunities that my country of origin could not: freedom of the press and complete freedom of expression.

It is clearly the case that programs in Europe and the United States that have increased biofuel production have contributed to the added demand for food.

We don’t have any bad memories of the people of the United States.

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

The recent, single-year influx of unaccompanied minors from foreign countries into the United States is a direct result of President Obama’s policies of encouraging amnesty and failing to enforce existing immigration laws.