Quotes with nation-states

Quotes 181 till 200 of 622.

  • Barack Obama I'm the president of the United States, I'm not the emperor of the United States.
    Google Hangout 15-02-2013
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Bella Freud I've always been interested in justice. I think what is happening to the Palestinians represents the ultimate injustice. I also hate bullies and the effect of them, the way people side with them out of fear. The Israelis are the schoolyard bullies, with England and the United States siding with them.
    Bella Freud
    British fashion designer (1961 - )
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  • Ben Cardin I've known Hillary Clinton for a long time. She's trustworthy. She's ready from Day One to assume the office of presidency in the United States. She's qualified and she's ready as compared to, I think, Donald Trump, who has shown his recklessness, and dangerous statements that he's made.
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  • Abdul Kalam If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Bill Flores If a country like Chile can fix its social security system, there is no reason a country as great as the United States... can't fix our Social Security system.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein If a major source of the nation's news is personalizing user experiences, people with different points of view will end up in echo chambers of their own design. Facebook didn't create that problem, but it shouldn't aggravate it.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Ezra Pound If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • John F. Kennedy If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president s.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Beatrice Webb If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room full of people, I would say to myself, 'You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation... why should you be frightened?
    Beatrice Webb
    English sociologist and economist (1858 - 1943)
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  • Ayaan Hirsi Ali If such a young nation as the U.S. could make it to superpower status, we could do it as well.
    Ayaan Hirsi Ali
    Somali-born Dutch-American activist, feminist and author (1969 - )
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  • Bill Kristol If terror groups are to be defeated, it is national governments that will have to do so. In nations like India, governments will have to call on the patriotism of citizens to fight the terrorists. In a nation like Pakistan, the government will have to be persuaded to deal with those in their midst who are complicit.
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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  • Carlos Fuentes If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let's all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best.
    Doing It Our Way, New Statesman & Society, 2 February 1990, tr. Alfred MacAdam
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Ben Shapiro If the United States had maintained its spending under Ronald Reagan, it is possible that the attacks of 9/11 - presaged by Islamic terror attacks on multiple American targets beginning with the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 - would have been stopped.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Anna Howard Shaw If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty.
    Anna Howard Shaw
    American activist and leader of the women's suffrage movement (1847 - 1919)
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  • Bill Haslam If we are recognizing the Bible as a sacred text, then we are violating the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Tennessee by designating it as the official state book.
    Bill Haslam
    American businessman and politician (1958 - )
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  • Abdurrahman Wahid If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.
    Abdurrahman Wahid
    Indonesian politican and Muslim leader (1940 - 2009)
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  • Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.
    Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
    Iranian politician and writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Mohsin Hamid If we try to 'protect ourselves', our nation-states begin to look like prisons.
    Mohsin Hamid
    British Pakistani novelist, writer (1971 - )
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  • Bob Menendez If you got up this morning and had fruits for breakfast, it was probably picked by the bent back of an immigrant worker. If you slept in a hotel or motel of the nation, you probably had your room done by an immigrant worker.
    Bob Menendez
    American politician (1954 - )
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