One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.

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

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

Americans move more than 10 times over the course of a lifetime.

The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.

Even if soccer is not number one in the United States, they do things very well here. There’s much our country can learn from the U.S.A., because we all know that soccer is not the main game in India. We can still do more things, like provide better facilities for the players so they can perform well.

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

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.

Now you have a choice: we can give more tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, or we can start rewarding companies that open new plants and train new workers and create new jobs here, in the United States of America.

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.

While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst, and with continued unity of effort, we shall rapidly recover. There is one certainty of the future of a people of the resources, intelligence and character of the people of the United States – that is, prosperity.

People who can’t be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States‘ response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been.

The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament.

By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream.

The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States – and war is what they got.

There are people in the world who aren’t necessarily Christians, but they’re just naturally nice people who do a lot for other people. Those people will almost always be prosperous people.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

China is a great manufacturing center, but it’s actually mostly an assembly plant. So it assembles parts and components, high technology that comes from the surrounding industrial – more advanced industrial centers – Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, the United States, Europe – and it basically assembles them.

A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

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.

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.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

The oppression of any people for opinion’s sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

Washington isn’t a city, it’s an abstraction.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one’s people that has not previously been taken into account.

How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.

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

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

The American doctor, in my opinion, possesses a combination of conservatism and that other quality which has put the United States in the forefront in almost every department of science – that is, an eagerness to know what it is really all about in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.

I looked the people of Louisiana in the eye and told them exactly what I thought in terms that normal people use.

People of Berlin – people of the world – this is our moment. This is our time.

Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

Many people, especially in the U.S., see countries like Sweden or Norway or Finland as role models – we have such a clean energy sector, and so on. That may be true, but we are not role models.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity.

Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the center of an empire, you can think of your experience as universal. Outside the empire or on the fringes of the empire, you cannot.

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.

I don’t think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state.

Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.

The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

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

The U.S. is just in a class by itself in military expenses. It basically matches the rest of the world, and it’s far more advanced.

In February 2004, the two traditional torturers of Haiti – France and the United States – combined to back a military coup and send President Aristide off to Africa. The U.S. denies him permission to return to the entire region.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Music belongs to the people. To no one else. To no one else.