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.

You know, without China there is no Wal-Mart and without Wal-Mart there is no middle class and lower class prosperity in the United States.

I definitely feel Russian. I feel Russian, but at the same time when I’m in the States I feel at home, too.

To them, the real United States is just flyover country.

For if there were a list of cosmic things that unite us, reader and writer, visible as it scrolled up into the distance, like the introduction to some epic science-fiction film, then shining brightly on...

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only...

I think that peace will require two states, a Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state.

This is the task, I think, of a letter movement. But it should be set up only in states where a significant response can be achieved, for a letter movement necessarily presupposes a strong organization.

The United States was attacked on 9/11/12, and we know who attacked us.

Bill, The United States is not a company. It is a country.

It is not to benefit CBS, not to benefit its reporters. On this one, the entire basis of it is this is a way to get more information, more important information to the public. And...

No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. There are merely differences of degree in the militarism of states.

At the same time the Constitution sets in stone the Stability Pact and risks preventing member States from implementing a policy of growth. So we are not able to do things at the European or...

The Bay of Pigs was an operation the United States endorsed. That was a preventive operation. We were afraid that Castro was going to subvert the hemisphere.

Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.

The U.A.E. is a firm ally of the United States and deserves better treatment than it received in the Dubai Ports World fiasco in 2006.

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 believe that homosexual acts between individuals are immoral and that we should not condone immoral acts. I do not believe that the Armed Forces of the United States are well served by a saying...

The relationship between Israel and the United States is a bond of – it’s just a very powerful bond. It was, it is, and will be and will continue to be.

I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying ‘O.J.’

The fundamental premise is that neither the United States or the international community is going to allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon.

I think that although we say we don’t want to be the policeman of the world and et cetera, when 911 is dialed, it’s the United States that has to answer the call.

On a Tuesday, September 11th, 1973, we had the military coup in Chile that forced me to leave my country eventually. And then, on a Tuesday, September 11th, 2001, we had the terrorist attack in...

Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.

Our educational results lag behind other states, and other nations, but worse still, behind the potential of the kids and the devoted teachers in our classrooms.

We must correct the problems and inequities in the way we conduct and decide elections in the United States.

I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states, although it may cost me my...

But ya have to make videos in the States. Usually ours just look too serious. We haven’t got it together.

I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States, because of that terror of discrimination.

In the United States, large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation’s funeral at our expense.

Any Mexican, would recognise that Mexico was abused, undervalued and downgraded in international circles, most of all by the United States.

As it has for America’s other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians.

The United States is going to defend itself under any circumstances.

The United States, you know, people – one of the reasons that it is said that native people received citizenship in 1924 was so that they could be drafted. And they have been extensively drafted.

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.