Quotes with member-states

Quotes 301 till 320 of 364.

  • A. N. Wilson The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Noam Chomsky The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - ''indoctrination,'' we might say - exercised through the mass media.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Bob Ehrlich The United States Supreme Court has voted 6-3 that voter photo ID is constitutional.
    Bob Ehrlich
    American lawyer and politician (1957 - )
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  • Walt Whitman The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Bill McCollum There are a lot of messages that need to be sent to the criminal who is out there dealing in this on the streets of the United States. We need to send the message of swiftness and certain punishment.
    Bill McCollum
    American lawyer and politician (1944 - )
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  • Ashley Montagu There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.
    Ashley Montagu
    British-American anthropologist (1905 - 1999)
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  • Bo Bennett There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Douglas Adams There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • John F. Kennedy There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia, Ohio.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Barbara Jordan There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.
    Speaking the truth with eloquent thunder
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Barack Obama There is not a liberal America and a conservative America — there is the United States of America. There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America — there's the United States of America.
    Speech DNC, 2004
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Abu Bakar Bashir There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them.
    Abu Bakar Bashir
    Indonesian Muslim cleric (1938 - )
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  • Atal Bihari Vajpayee There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.
    Atal Bihari Vajpayee
    Indian statesman (1924 - 2018)
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  • Alan Cranston There will always be nations. The United States will last a long, long time, I believe. France and Germany and Japan, China, other nations, they're going to exist. But they're losing their significance and ability to deal with certain matters.
    Alan Cranston
    American politician and journalist (1914 - 2000)
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  • Bill Bryson There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Bill Engvall There's a lot of things I believe in this world. I believe in God, I believe in the United States of America, and I support and believe in the Second Amendment.
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Barry Sternlicht There's more single-family homes rented in the United States then there are apartments.
    Barry Sternlicht
    billionaire and the (1960 - )
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  • Calvin Coolidge They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • John Updike To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client; still, one must make the best of the case, for the purposes of Providence.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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