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.

That is because the conflict with al Qaeda is not governed by the Geneva Conventions, which applies only to international conflicts between states that have signed them.

You never know how you’re going to be received, after all this time. The initial response we had was just overwhelming, particularly that tour of the States.

The principle of Sturgeon’s Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.

There are in most states one or two ministers of war, one of whom is the minister of naval affairs.

I think the primary message to the world is that the United States is going to remain the strongest military power in the world.

The state does not oppose the freedom of people to express their particular cultural attachments, but nor does it nurture such expression—rather […] it responds with ‘benign neglect’ [….] The members of ethnic and national...

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states.

We inter-change ideas. You can stay in the United States and inspire people in Indonesia. You can stay in Ghana and inspire people in Turkey. You can stay in Nigeria and inspire people in cote’d...

The 1890s was an intensely patriotic decade for Americans. It was a time of neo-imperialism, when the European powers and the United States were establishing their flags around the globe.