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This point seems counter-intuitive, given the amount of conspicuous vulgarity, vice, and immorality in America. Indeed some Islamic fundamentalists argue that their regimes are morally superior to the United States because they seek to foster virtue among the citizens.

Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country.

And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934.

In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States.

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

When a population saves a lot, the funds are invested outside the country as well as inside. If the Japanese invest in the United States, it pushes their exchange rate down and makes their manufacturing more competitive.

Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It's agriculture. It's golf courses. It's domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the gulf.

I have lived in the United States for half of my life, my entire adult life.

No, I believe in the good will of the United States' administration.

But thanks to the efforts, the initiative of the United States and of the several countries from the world, from Europe, including Turkey, it ended within a few weeks.

The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament.

If I were president of the United States, I would include Moslems in my presidency.

No, the United States does not target civilians.

The United States has some people in Europe with whom we disagree on this matter and a large number of people in Europe, including governments in Europe, with whom we agree.

We have a substantial number of countries that have pledged and provided all kinds of support for the United States in the event that war becomes necessary in Iraq.

But because we in the United States finance our current account deficit by borrowing in our own currency, we can move to a more competitive dollar without the adverse effects that followed currency declines in other countries.

I readily admit I was not an expert on foreign policy but I was knowledgeable and I didn't need a man who was the Vice President of the United States and my opponent turning around and putting me down.

It's sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help.

The object of China's strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's premier economic power, and if necessary, to defeat us militarily.

The United Nations has long sought the ability to raise revenues in this manner as a means of reducing its reliance on American and other member nations' dues to sustain the UN's operations.

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

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

More than 65,000 horses were slaughtered in the United States in 2004, a 50 percent increase since 2002.

Consular offices make no attempt to determine whether the person obtaining the card is legally in the United States. In fact, the only people who need these cards are illegal immigrants, criminals and terrorists. Consular cards also are easily forged.

We say here that if you fall down in the United States, the ambulance man must feel for your wallet before he feels for your pulse.

I've had more than 12,000 emails from the United States. It's not easy in the United States to find out the email address of a British parliamentarian.

Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.

There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.

But then I always wanted to play for Rangers. Man United is a great club and Alex Ferguson is a legend.

I've spent my entire adult life with the United States as a superpower and one that had no compunction about spending what it took to sustain that position. And it didn't have to look over its shoulder because our economy was so strong.

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

Pakistan is an old ally of the United States.

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

Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.

The years after the millennium will see gathering conflict all over the world to the point where the United Nations will be overwhelmed.

It's a shame the Manchester United situation turned sour.

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels.

We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States.

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.

I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.

It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.

In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me.

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

It's not that there are no masters, but that there are many. And the job of the solicitor general is to balance those masters and to accommodate them all, each in their proper places, wisely and well and in so doing to represent the people of the United States.

When it comes to setting national priorities, determining threats, defining challenges, and fashioning and implementing foreign and defense policies, the United States and Europe have parted ways.

I will always be a partner with the president of the United States.

Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain power.

Given the level of anti-Americanism in the world, given the level of frustration with the United States throughout the Muslim world, you've got a homegrown attack or you have a nuclear explosion in the air that is not a test somewhere. Those are still the biggest threats out there.

It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.

The United States is not overdeployed or overextended with deployments in 150 countries on any given year. On any given week we have about 65 deployments.

If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.

The majority of the Afghan people support a strategic partnership with the United States.

A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs.

The entire exhibitions industry in the United States of America has filed for bankruptcy.

The United States being in Asia is unambiguously a good thing for the region.

Really, of all the important mission responsibilities assigned to United States Strategic Command by the president, none is more important than our responsibility to deter a strategic attack on the United States and our allies and partners.

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.

By 2010, Africa could be providing the United States with as many oil imports as the Middle East.

Methamphetamine is a highly dangerous drug that is wreaking havoc on families and communities throughout this country. The drug's use is spreading across the United States.

I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of the State Department.

If the United States leads a multinational force into Iraq without United Nations backing, Canada should fight beside its neighbour. We've gone from being a middle power to a muddle power on this one.

If everyone invested in the neighborhood they lived in, the United States would be a magical place.

I don't think the United States has done anything whatsoever to merit any criticism by the British.

It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.

It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.

By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world.

The nature of our two main political parties has changed in the United States.

September the 11th was a huge shock in the United States. It was the first time you had been hit at home in your own territory by terrorist on this scale.

Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States.

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.

The United States and Arizona are both losing jobs to offshore locations.

I have long been a proponent of a guest-worker program between the United States and Mexico, and in particular I have proposed that Arizona would be an ideal location for a pilot project.