The United States never stopped conspiring against the Arab world, which holds the largest oil reserves on the planet.

I’m reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States – for the century, at least.

From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.

We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, ‚We, the people.‘

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.

You are twice as likely to be struck by lightning as you around to be affected by a terrorist event in the United States.

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don’t need to imagine it. It’s called the United States of America.

Nowhere is it written that there must be conflict between the United States and China.

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

I’m going to try to unite all Americans.

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It’s not like Egypt, where you’re going to get murdered by the security forces.

When I’m doing a book tour in the States, I’ll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and I don’t know where I am right away. I’ll go to the window, and it doesn’t help there either, especially if you’re in an anonymous strip and it’s the usual Victoria’s Secret, Gap, Chili’s, Applebee’s.

Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.

People in Latin America… love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

The U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment.

One of the great strengths of the United States is… we have a very large Christian population – we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.

Let’s teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.

Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.

I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America.

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.

What we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I’ve met with, and I’ve met them all: It’s never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

The fact is: It’s true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.

This election is about who’s going to be the next President of the United States!

Egypt is the second-largest recipient over a long period of U.S. military and economic aid. Israel is first.

The Bush Administration’s failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

Qatar-based ‚Al-Jazeera,‘ the most important news channel in the Arab world, was harshly criticized by high U.S. officials for having ‚emphasized civilian casualties‘ during the destruction of Falluja. The problem of independent media was later resolved when the channel was kicked out of Iraq in preparation for free elections.

Guantanamo is still open, but it’s unlikely that serious torture is going on at Guantanamo. There is just too much inspection.

I was born in Europe… and I’ve traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America.

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.

I’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States.

The United States, to state the obvious, is greatly concerned by the startling number of unaccompanied minors that – children and teenagers who are making a very perilous journey through Central America to reach the United States.

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

Is the Iranian record of intervention and terror worse than that of the U.S.?

I love being in the United States Senate.

Why should Iran have a deterrent strategy? Well, it’s surrounded by hostile enemies. Both of its borders have been under occupation by a hostile superpower, the United States, which is constantly violating the U.N. charter by leaving open what they call the saying, ‚all options are open‘ – meaning the threat of war.

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.

In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved on an independent path, not following U.S. orders.

The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.

Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.

Surveys show our standing around the world is higher than when I was elected to this office, and when it comes to every important international issue, people of the world do not look to Beijing or Moscow to lead – they call us.

We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.

At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from ‚the bush‘ could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the ‚Wall Street Journal.‘

In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That’s quite clear.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

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.

We’ve persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it’s time to turn the page.

For me, America is really, truly the indispensable nation.

Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.

I don’t know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.

I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.

My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn’t work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.