You should be a person inside the world with knowledge of your terrain. And if you lock yourself into the 2,000-by-3,000-square-mile, lower-48 box of the United States, you’re going to be frustrated by its limitations....

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.

It is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals.

I will aim to restore the Japan-U.S. alliance and Japan’s strong diplomatic capabilities. Japan can’t pursue a strong foreign policy without strengthening its alliance with the United States.

Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down.

Arab states continue to send the Palestinians gifts of extravagant rhetoric and countless Arab League resolutions – but not much cash.

If I were president of the United States, I would include Moslems in my presidency.

The core idea that underlies all of our democratic states, the core political idea, is this idea that it’s not that one person is the sovereign; it’s that all of the people are sovereign.

There’s no guarantee that the United States will be around 200 years from now.

I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.

The United States will do whatever we have to do to protect our forces.

The United States – you know, native people are large landowners, but the military has a huge chunk of our territories. And in those, there are a number of places that are our sacred sites.

I never thought that I would come to live in the United States. I was not pursuing the American dream.

But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world.

We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.

Two things Florida can teach the other 49 states: how to make a good margarita and how to deal with the aftermath of a hurricane.

I believe the government of the United States should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian cause.

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

I have long been a proponent of a guest-worker program between the United States and Mexico, and in particular I have proposed that Arizona would be an ideal location for a pilot project.

[T]he state should not impose a preferred way of life, but should leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their own values and ends, consistent with a similar liberty for others.

When you scan the globe’s hot spots, every civil war and massacre, every act of terror and every clash between states has its unique local circumstances.

When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician.

Well, the United States is a Pacific power. And we have always had a presence in the Pacific.

The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.

A lot of the people in Northern California and parts of Oregon have decided that we are not on the same page as San Francisco and Portland and Los Angeles. I don’t know if six...

From ‘Embracing the Wide Sky’, I went to the States, to Canada and to different parts of Europe as well. I gave interviews in several languages.

But, you know, there’s still an argument, there’s still ten states that outlaw premarital sex, and many more states where adultery is still outlawed and a crime.

In the United States, there one feels free… Except from the Americans – but every pearl has its oyster.

To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn’t processing that.

The United States should help strengthen nongovernmental humanitarian agencies working in Sudan so that they can handle an increased flow of aid.

Comparing your family budget to the sovereign debt of the United States is a little like comparing two kindergartners tossing a paper airplane to the Apollo 11 mission.

9/11 was a hugely overblown event that only assumed its overarching importance a) because it was done to the United States and b) because of the way the U.S. reacted.

It’s only in the United States that they make a big deal about nudity.

We had about 60 regions in Greece and now there are only 13. It’d be like cutting down 50 states to 13 and making it more efficient.

The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in...

The Constitution shall never be construed… to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

This mass destructive weapons were sold to Iraqi government by the United States. And Mr. Rumsfeld has been one of the man responsible for this sale, for this bargain, for this market.

In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli.

I grew up a vegetarian. Then, because I grew up in the states, I started slowly eating meat. First it was bologna sandwiches, or pepperoni on pizza.

You know, there are only about 10 people in the United States that have ever argued 25 cases before the Supreme Court, this man has won 25 cases before the Supreme Court. He’s an overwhelming...

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.