I think they’ll continue to explore options outside the United States, and they’ll continue with non-bank acquisitions.

I’m not really sure why we haven’t seen those in the United States.

Most market participants didn’t believe there would be ECB intervention, let alone coordinated intervention with the United States,

It is pardonable for children to yell that they believe in fairies, but it is somehow sinister when the piping note shifts from the puerile to the senile.

I shall not vote for Sen. Obama and it will not be because he—like me and like all of us—carries African genes. And I shall not be voting for Mrs. Clinton, who has the gall...

There is one thing that has disappeared, not just from the U.S. but from the entire world, is the idea of ever being embarrassed by anything.

His frustration with some Americans was like that of a disappointed parent. He was so content in this country, so impressed with and loving of its opportunities, but then why, sometimes, did Americans fall short...

This is a very historic and rare monument for the state of Tennessee and for the United States.

The American system is the most ingenious system of control in world history. With a country so rich in natural resources, talent, and labor power the system can afford to distribute just enough wealth to...

[Obamacare] was almost the perfect example of politics in the Bubble Era, where the time horizon for anyone with real power is always close to zero, long-term thinking is an alien concept, and even the...

As the government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion, — as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen...

They want to start withdrawing because they can feel the heat here in the United States,

Anyone who pretends to “understand” Latin America is a fool.

Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician’s spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.

The United States stands alone in this anti-China farce. The motion against China was naturally doomed to fail.

We need a new, deeper appreciation of the ethnic histories of the American people, not a reduction of American history to ethnic histories.

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

America is harmless as an enemy but treacherous as a friend.

Those of us who follow politics seriously rather than view it as a game show do not look at Hillary Clinton and simply think ‘first woman president.’ We think—for example—’first ex-co-president’ or ‘first wife of...

While working in California, I met William Valentiner and Edgar Richardson of the Detroit Institute of Arts. I mentioned a desire which I had to paint a series of murals about the industries of the...

Of the many ‘firsts’ with which I have been involved at the Texas Heart Institute —including the first successful human heart transplant in the United States and the first total artificial heart transplant in the...

People came here for a reason, to follow their conscience, to be free!

Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

We trace the hand of the Almighty in framing the constitution of our land, and believe that the Lord raised up men purposely for the accomplishment of this object, raised them up and inspired them...

Conversion and zealotry, just like revelation and apostasy, are flip sides of the same coin, the currency of a political culture having more in common with religion than rational discourse.

Somehow, all the talk about tenure and anthropology had given her visions of a thick-walled, libraried adobe, the kind of place that was covered with kilim rugs and fertility sculptures. The white stucco in front...

The benefits of making 40 miles per gallon the standard for all autos in the United States are obvious to Americans: Consumers save money; we reduce our dangerous reliance on Middle East oil, making us...

It’s not radical Islam that worries the US — it’s independence

Everyone I have spoken with about working with the Russians in space exploration believes that the United States has learned a great deal from Russia and that Russia has learned a great deal from the...

Now, it’s true that some of the protesters are oddly dressed or have silly-sounding slogans, which is inevitable given the open character of the events. But so what? I, at least, am a lot more...

That’s a very important policy. The United States now can be taken to mean the removal of Saddam Hussein, and we believe that President Clinton took a courageous stand.

If you want to prove a contractual relationship with the United States, then the only relevant relationship is that as a spy.

demonstrated that an honest and respectable discussion of differences between the United States and Cuba is possible.

An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he’s working on these days. ‘My thesis is on the survival of the class system in the United...

I think this was a nice idea we had in this country and a nice landscape to experiment with. But I think there comes a time in almost any experimentation or idea, where you have...

Maybe this can be an eye-opener for the United States, … It must understand that some of its assumptions about this region — the worthlessness of public opinion, the total bias toward Israel — have...

After all, this is America, and you can swap out the parts of yourself that don’t work. You can rebuild yourself piece by piece.

When we win the nomination, we’ll be president of all 50 of the United States.

I think if you look deep down inside you know you’re overmatched against the United States, especially when we were younger. We had a bunch of hockey players going out there.

Yet isn’t it all—all of it, every single episode and detail of the Clinton saga—exactly like that? And isn’t some of it a little bit more serious? For Sen. Clinton, something is true if it...

We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For...

We are at war. War is not on battlefield. It is in boardrooms of companies that control your United States of America.

To restrict or legalize abortion, to allow or forbid gay marriage, a legislator would need to write and pass a law, get it signed by the president or a governor, and perhaps override a veto....

It’s August, which means Congress is on recess and Mitch McConnell has shimmied back into the ocean to seek a mate.

Guantánamo Bay’s motto: ‘Safe, humane, legal, transparent detention.’ Four adjectives describing one sick joke.

It was not until the year 1808 that Great Britain abolished the slave trade. Up to that time her judges, sitting upon the bench in the name of justice, her priests, occupying her pulpits, in...

To those who will decide if he should be tried for ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’ -the House of Representatives-And to those who would sit in judgment at such a trial if the House impeaches -the...

Now, I have always wanted to agree with Lady Bracknell that there is no earthly use for the upper and lower classes unless they set each other a good example. But I shouldn’t pretend that...

The President is also captured in a well-worn TV news clip, making a boilerplate response to a question on terrorism and then asking the reporters to watch his drive. Well, that’s what you get if...

Ever since 1945 the federal government has held and indeed increased its importance as the first customer of the American economy. Government spending had been the primary economic stimulant and to increase it had been...