Quotes with member-states

Quotes 21 till 40 of 364.

  • W. H. Auden America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an élite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Bidzina Ivanishvili America has chosen Georgia as a junior partner. The United States believes that Saakashvili is creating a democratic Georgia, but these are merely facades.
    Bidzina Ivanishvili
    Georgian politician, billionaire businessman and philanthropist (1956 - )
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  • J. Bartlett Brebner Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
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  • Billy Wilder An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark, that is critical genius.
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • Alfred A. Knopf An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
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  • Barack Obama 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.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Bernard Cornwell And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee.
    Bernard Cornwell
    British author of historical novels (1944 - )
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  • Alma Guillermoprieto And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican.
    Alma Guillermoprieto
    Mexican journalist
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  • Bobby R. Inman Another factor is the decision, made in 1976, to sharply divide the FBI and the foreign intelligence agencies. The FBI would collect within the United States; the foreign intelligence agencies would collect overseas.
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  • Alain Juppe Any confrontation, such as a verbal one with the United States, would be harmful for everybody.
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  • Adolfo Aguilar Zinser Any Mexican, would recognise that Mexico was abused, undervalued and downgraded in international circles, most of all by the United States.
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  • Bill Owens As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.
    Bill Owens
    American photographer (1938 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders As a member of both the energy and environment committees, I am constantly astounded by how many of my colleagues prefer to focus on what the government can do for the nuclear or coal industries rather than why the government should support clean and sustainable energy.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Barack Obama As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Stephen Vizinczey As both capitalist and communist states - not to mention the technological world - have evolved under the illusion that men purposefully built them, ideological optimism seeps into every niche of our lives. It is made worse by mass culture which feeds our
    Stephen Vizinczey
    Hungarian writer and critic (1933 - 2021)
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  • Ben Shapiro As of September 2012, 168 out of the 602 released Guantanamo Bay detainees are suspected of returning to terrorism. So, is this a winning scenario for the United States? Of course not.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Brad Sherman As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions.
    Brad Sherman
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Anthony Weiner At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusing to recuse himself from matters he has a financial interest in, and middle class incomes are stagnant, many want to change the subject. I don't. This was a prank, and a silly one. I'm focused on my work.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Bob Keeshan Back in the old days, when I was a child, we sat around the family table at dinner time and exchanged our daily experiences. It wasn't very organized, but everyone was recognized and all the news that had to be told was told by each family member. We listened to each other and the interest was not put on; it was real.
    Bob Keeshan
    American television producer and actor (1927 - 2004)
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