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United States Quotes

1.
I prefer to be in the grave in Colombia than in a jail cell in the United States.
Pablo Escobar

I would rather be interred in Colombia than incarcerated in America.
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2.
We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within.
Nikita Khrushchev

We do not have to attack the United States, we will obliterate you internally.
3.
Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
W. E. B. Du Bois

Either America will vanquish illiteracy or illiteracy will annihilate the United States.
4.
Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.
W. E. B. Du Bois

It is effortless to impute criminality to an African American in the US.
5.
God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America.
Otto von Bismarck

Divine guidance is bestowed upon the foolish, intoxicated, and United States of America.
6.
The United States is the most dishonest, ungodly, unspiritual nation that ever existed in the history of the planet.
Dick Gregory

The United States is the most corrupt, immoral, and secular nation that has ever been on Earth.
7.
Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.
Noam Chomsky

No one should harbor any false hopes. In effect, the United States is a single-party nation and the incumbent power is that of business.
8.
No other country in the world imprisons so many of its racial or ethnic minorities. The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid
Michelle Alexander

9.
The most fundamental truth to be told in any art form, as far as Blacks are concerned, is that America is killing us.
Sonia Sanchez

The most essential reality conveyed in any creative medium, with regards to African Americans, is that the United States is destroying us.
10.
The United States now sleeps under a Soviet moon
Nikita Khrushchev

The United States now slumbers beneath a Russian night sky.
11.
In the United States, the Constitution is a health chart left by the Founding Fathers which shows whether or not the body politic is in good health. If the national body is found to be in poor health, the Founding Fathers also left a prescription for the restoration of health called the Declaration of Independence.
Dick Gregory

12.
African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.
Jefferson Davis

'African servitude, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political advantage.'
13.
In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed their own 4-H Club - the 'hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.'
Spiro T. Agnew

Miserable malcontents of miserable musings
14.
The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.
Edward Said

15.
Before the war it was always the United States *are*, after the war it was the United States is... it made us an is.
Shelby Foote

16.
Africa can and will only advance through African integration, which can be realized through the Federal United States of Africa
Cheikh Anta Diop

17.
I don`t think the Donald Trump`s qualified to be president of the United States, and every time he speaks, that opinion is confirmed.
Barack Obama

18.
Poor Mexico. So far from God and so close to the United States.
Porfirio Diaz

19.
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

20.
[In] the United States, we've always been held together by the belief that it doesn't matter where you came from. It matters where you're going.
Condoleezza Rice

21.
My own daughters weren't able to study in Turkey because of their headscarves, so they went to the United States.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan

22.
Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.
Alice Paul

23.
The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried.
Charles Hamilton Houston

24.
When Fascism comes to America, it will be called anti-Fascism!
Unknown

25.
When I came back to the United States, I decided that if you could use propaganda for war, you could certainly use it for peace. And "propaganda" got to be a bad word because of the Germans using it, so what I did was to try and find some other words so we found the word "councelor of public relations".
Edward Bernays

26.
It is my conviction that the fundamental trouble with the people of the United States is that they have gotten too far away from Almighty God.
Warren G. Harding

27.
It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain.
Josiah Strong

28.
The 10 largest antitrust law firms in the United States have gone into the federal courts charging Monsanto with creating a global conspiracy in violation of the antitrust laws, to control the global market in seeds.
Jeremy Rifkin

29.
...Since 1775 the United States Marines have upheld a fine tradition of service to their country. They are doing so today. I am confident they will continue to do so.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

30.
Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories.
Chris Van Hollen

31.
If the Europeans want to intervene, that's their business. But if I were president, I would remove every United States soldier from the Balkan peninsula.
Pat Buchanan

32.
The other countries did not share the same concern the United States had in the early '90's - that North Korea actually had an ongoing nuclear weapons program.
Mitchell Reiss

33.
If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.
Nelson Mandela

34.
Regrettably, it has become clear that torture of detainees in United States custody is not limited to Abu Ghraib or even Iraq. Since Abu Ghraib, there have been increasing reports of torture.
Marty Meehan

35.
The United States should get rid of its militias.
Joseph Stalin

36.
I would say, on the basis of having observe a thousand people in the experiment and having my own intuition shaped and informed by these experiments, that if a system of death camps were set up in the United States of the sort we had seen in Nazi Germany, one would find sufficient personnel for those camps in any medium-sized American town.
Stanley Milgram

37.
The Syrian civil war is a "crime initiated by the United States and the Zionist regime, Israel."
Ali Khamenei

38.
Every day Saddam remains in power with chemical weapons, biological weapons, and the development of nuclear weapons is a day of danger for the United States.
Joe Lieberman

39.
We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States.
Jay Inslee

40.
The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails.
Federico Garcia Lorca

41.
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.
Margaret Atwood

42.
I never use the word nation in speaking of the United States. I always use the word Union or Confederacy. We are not a nation but a union, a confederacy of equal and sovereign States.
John C. Calhoun

43.
The United States is Fast Becoming One of the Biggest Open-Air Prisons on Earth
Mumia Abu-Jamal

44.
All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.
Pat Paulsen

45.
The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.
George Soros

46.
We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.
Gore Vidal

47.
The worth of a child born and bred in Nigeria cannot be compared to that in the United States.
Yakubu Gowon

48.
The president of the United States, the most famous person in the world, maybe in the whole galaxy - in a long time - he had to spend like a billion dollars to set the record straight.
Nancy Pelosi

49.
There is a good deal of evidence that the United States is moving to the right, and that the main force behind the movement is a resurgence, in a new form, of racial prejudice.
Shirley Chisholm

50.
The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.
Leon Trotsky