I can see why people find him [Hugo Chávez] charming. He’s very ebullient, as they say. I’ve heard him make a speech, though, and he has a vice that’s always very well worth noticing because...

The New START accord cuts the strategic nuclear arsenals on each side to 1,550 warheads. Can any of its critics make a case that our security would be imperiled if, the very next day, Obama...

We speak in the same voice with the United States because Washington, too, is interested to stop the spiraling of tension and normalizing the situation in the region. It is important not only that we...

The Fed’s cutting rates more than other banks are cutting rates, the United States is cutting taxes more than other governments are able to and is getting more stimulus from defense spending, … We won’t...

Maybe sometime, but not now. George Bush is not ready to be president of the United States.

Especially under the current complicated and sensitive situation across the Taiwan Strait, we ask the United States to be faithful to what it says and abide by its promises and not send the wrong signal...

It has all paid off for I have been all over the United States and the world and have a lifetime of experience that I would not already have,

When you’re in the presence of the president of the United States … you’re likely to pull your punches to some degree.

There’s no way this woman is qualified for the United States Supreme Court,

I have a map of the United States… Actual size. It says, ‘Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile.’ I spent last summer folding it. I hardly ever unroll it. People ask me where I live,...

Never has America lost a war … But name, if you can, the last peace the United States won. Victory yes, but this country has never made a successful peace because peace requires exchanging ideas,...

This issue is something between Mexico and Venezuela. It’s not something that you need to drag the United States in.

In terms of the number of arrests and seizures, I believe this is one of our (the United States’) most significant investigations involving counterfeit products.

The United States finds itself with forces of reaction. Do I have to demonstrate this? The Taliban’s annihilation of music and culture? The enslavement of women?

Energy and fuel prices continue to rise, triggering fuel consumption concerns in the United States.

I wish I could grow swords like I can roses. Wouldn’t war be so romantic then? Then the U.S. could really show the world how much it loves it.

The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports them as fact, or treats elected officials with a reverence reserved for royalty,...

Historically, investigations of mine disasters in the United States have never involved the families of the victims. That era ends today.

We are really just at the recognition phase (in the United States) … We have defined the problem and are recognizing the problem and trying to adapt. This (study) just points out how far behind...

We will not jeopardize our relations with the United States. On the other hand, it’s going to be an extremely difficult position to defend in front of our public opinion.

It’s a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.

Peter Berger, one of my mentors in sociology, remarked that the United States is a nation of Indians ruled by Swedes, … By that he meant that the American people are as religious as the...

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society. In America, the professor talks to the...

Removing the United States from the scene means eliminating the player most loyal to the idea of a stable, heterogeneous Iraq.

That’s why the United States has emphasized the need for a multilateral approach to resolving this issue,

Senator Reid is entitled to his opinion, but he’s not the president of the United States, and he doesn’t administer justice in this country,

In this century, the Australian Century, Australia will also have an opportunity to achieve extraordinary feats. Just as the United States dominates world affairs with less than five per cent of the global population, Australia...

How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.

How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?

What do you have to forget or overlook in order to desire that this dysfunctional clan once more occupies the White House and is again in a position to rent the Lincoln Bedroom to campaign...

We believe that the United States should coordinate and cooperate with the Iraqi opposition, and must not entertain any idea of making changes behind the opposition’s back.

It’s common to go from ‘crashing the gate’ to guarding it.

The Constitution is ink on parchment. It is forty-four hundred words. And it is, too, the accreted set of meanings that have been made of those words, the amendments, the failed amendments, the struggles, the...

The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.

A plan that is nothing but a way to drive trucks through loopholes is unacceptable to the United States,

And I think Hillary Clinton is able to be elected president of the United States.

By their actions, the Founding Fathers made clear that their primary concern was religious freedom, not the advancement of a state religion. Individuals, not the government, would define religious faith and practice in the United...

Al Qaeda’s central political objective is the creation of an Islamic republic, not the progressive realignment of American foreign policy.

Prolific irony – For 8 years, the finger on the button that could end the world belonged to a president who couldn’t pronounce the word “nuclear.

We feel that the timing is very unfortunate because national efforts are under way to work together on creating a compromise that may include a guest worker program that would allow people arrested today to...

from a legal point of view away from the political influences of the United States and Britain.

A payment of US$4 million was included in the overall payment of US$320 million to the United States which was agreed to in 1971.

So many of the professional foreign policy establishment, and so many of their hangers-on among the lumpen academics and journalists, had become worried by the frenzy and paranoia of the Nixonian Vietnam policy that consensus...

Lefever describes his financing plan with modesty:”‘Our detailed budget is realistic, but does not take into account the inflation that may occur before September 1983. The one place it could cut or reduce is item...

If the symbolic industry of the United States collapses, it may adversely affect Japan-U.S. relations by stirring up nationalist sentiment there.

They keep talking about drafting a constitution for Iraq. Why don’t we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys. It’s worked for over 200 years, and Hell, we’re...

As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise...

Actual class struggles apart, one of the aesthetic ways you could prove that there was a class system in America was by cogitating on the word, or acronym, ‘WASP.’ First minted by E. Digby Baltzell...

In times of war or peace the US will gladly pay a man to fail should his heart be in it, a small shimmering proof of the American dream.

The worst feeling was poor. Because in Haiti, so many people are poor, it’s nothing to be ashamed of. And there’s always a way to degaje, to get by, even when you have nothing. But...