Quotes with nation-states

Quotes 341 till 360 of 622.

  • Benigno Aquino III President Obama and I recognize the importance of strong economic engagement for the continued growth of both the Philippines and the United States.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro President Obama's consistent agenda has been to weaken the United States and our allies in pursuit of a more 'balanced' global power structure.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Brent Scowcroft Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Bethany McLean Proponents of privatization argued that cities and states needed private capital to fund all the upgrades that our decaying infrastructure so desperately needed.
    Bethany McLean
    American journalist (1970 - )
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  • Boris Sidis Psychology is the science of psychic states both as to content and form, regarded from an objective standpoint, and brought in relation to the living corporeal individual.
    The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology (1914)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • Billy Beane Quite frankly, I can't get enough of soccer. I tell my jingoistic friends in the United States there's a reason why it is the world's No. 1 sport. The rest of the planet can't be wrong.
    Billy Beane
    American baseball player (1962 - )
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  • Benjamin Todd Jealous Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them. It misdirects crucial resources and undercuts the trust needed between law enforcement and the communities they serve. It has no place in our national discourse, and no place in our nation's police departments.
    Benjamin Todd Jealous
    American civic leader and politician (1973 - )
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  • Leonard Cohen Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. And still we hear, If only this nation had a soul, or, Let us change the way we trade, or, Let us be proud of our region.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • C. Robert Kehler 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.
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  • Thomas Carlyle Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • George F. Will Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Walter Bagehot Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Anwar Sadat Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.
    Anwar Sadat
    Egyptian politician (1918 - 1981)
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  • A. Philip Randolph Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
    A. Philip Randolph
    American labor unionist and civil rights activist (1889 - 1979)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Bennie Thompson Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake.
    Bennie Thompson
    American politician (1948 - )
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  • Bayard Rustin Since Israel is a democratic state surrounded by essentially undemocratic states which have sworn her destruction, those interested in democracy everywhere must support Israel's existence.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Maria Weston Chapman Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.
    Maria Weston Chapman
    American abolitionist (1806 - 1885)
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  • Ben Stein Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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