The United States can’t impose democracies. We can’t impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan.

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

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

I believe that for the small numbers of Jewish people in the United States, they exercise a tremendous amount of influence on the affairs of government.

The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including...

Surely there were others like me, born without an inkling of direction. The wanderers, the amblers, the dabblers, united by our purposeless mantra-I have no idea what to do with my life.

The Congress has had an uneasy relationship with banks and bankers since Alexander Hamilton. It took the United States until 1913 to set up a central bank. The Federal Reserve earned its hard-won independence over...

Seen from the United States or Europe, Iran’s nuclear program often causes most concern, but from the perspective of countries in the Asia-Pacific region, the North Korean program is equally worrying.

Fear is for the powerless. Fear is for the alone. But as you stand together now, you are neither of those. Together, you amplify each other’s strengths; you nullify each other’s weaknesses.

Two years before the last election you nor anyone else would have predicted that Barack Obama was going to get elected president of the United States.

Pinochet took power in a 1973 military coup that the United States supported.

Well, let me just say – I mean, I’m not a person who’s going to vote for any of the potential Republican nominees for the presidency of the United States.

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.

If the Iraqis fail to implement the reforms, if they fail to get a handle on the violence, there’s nothing the United States can do, militarily or otherwise, that can solve those problems. They have...

The blood and sweat shed by United States and United Nations troops proved to be the prime mover behind the realisation of freedom throughout the post-war period.

I want to state unequivocally for the world, as well as for the markets, as well as for the American people: I have no doubt that we will not lose the full faith and credit...

The very controversial National Identification Act of 1991, requiring all United States citizens to carry identification, has greatly enhanced the ability of law enforcement officers to identify criminals and terrorists.

The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country.

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income...

Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.

We tend to forget in the West that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than Al Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims.

My early ambitions were the same as they are now – to play for Manchester United. I was, and still am, football mad.

People in this country need to understand when you go to any airport in the United States, you are not protected by the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. They can do anything they want...

When we involve others in spontaneous acts of kindness, we go from being strangers to becoming a united team connected at the heart level.

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

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

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.

United we stand, divided we fall.

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...

I realized that I was African when I came to the United States. Whenever Africa came up in my college classes, everyone turned to me. It didn’t matter whether the subject was Namibia or Egypt;...

The flow of people into the United States into slavery, it follows the other types of immigration into the United States, so people who are trying to build new lives, trying to build a better...

Mr. Speaker, in seeking to return to the United Nations, the Republic of China on Taiwan will once again ask diplomatic allies to present its case before the United Nations this fall.

Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.

What people recognize is that there’s a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of China, the rise of India, the rise of the Soviet Union and our...

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 showed that we are united and that we, young people, are unstoppable.

We are united by something greater and more valuable than our beliefs alone: the freedom to have those beliefs, and believe what we want without persecution – we must protect that at all costs.

After college, I wanted to learned about myself as an American, so I left the United States and went to Japan.

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.

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.

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

Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a militant Taliban that welcomes Al Qaida. That’s really the measure...

The United Nations is a place for prostitution under the feet of Americans.

The law limits anyone from serving as president of the United States for more than eight years. And in my opinion – well, eight years is also long enough for an individual to serve as...

We need to be united, and we all need to understand that we’re all capable of achieving the American dream. And, but that has to be something that is self-realized. And also, to demonize someone...

If we have any problems, it’s always with the government of the United States.

The United States is a key ally, a strategic partner, and a reliable friend of the Philippines.

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...

In my day, the only people who achieved real independence were my father, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin, who, with D. W. Griffith, formed United Artists. Other than that, everybody belonged to the big studios....