States Quotes

When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and the freedoms.

In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.

I've never been bashful to say that I'm not really interested in Formula One. When I lived in England, it's all I wanted to do and I thought that anything else would somehow be a compromise to my dreams. But then when I came back to the States, I realised how much I loved being back in the States.

It is my belief CAFTA will be beneficial for Alabama and the United States as a whole.

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.

And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.

We played the same thing in Europe we played in the States.

I don't have many litmus tests, but this is one: Any candidate who doesn't understand that we need to balance the budget should not be president of the United States.

No one should be surprised when Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda detonate a weapon of mass destruction in the United States. I don't believe in inevitability. But I think it's pretty close to being inevitable.

Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know?

The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States.

We asked ourselves and the world to base decisions on good science, and I really believe the United States can be the leader in delivering that message to our international trading partners.

Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits.

My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920.

Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.

I hope in time N. H. as well as the other States will feel the importance of Sovereignty.

There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 11 September attacks. There was nothing demonstrating or showing that something was coming in the United States. If there had been something, we would have acted on it.

We are hated because we are free. We are hated because of the idea that is the United States of America. We are hated because of our Constitution.

This experience actually means the very opposite: the largest military power was unable to stop such a sensitive attack and will be unable to rule out such a possibility in the future. Precisely this is the background to the United States' military interventions.

We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets.

In Canada you grow up - we're next to the United States. We're watching whatever you're watching. We're following your news. It's obvious that we are inundated with American cultural information and political information. Whereas the opposite is not true.

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 inequality.

I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States.

Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad.

I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.

The United States spends more money on African aid than any nation on earth.

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States.

Canada and the United States are also working at the World Trade Organization and in our own hemisphere with negotiations for a Trade Area of the Americas to try to help countries create a positive climate for investment and trade.

Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.