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

The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they’re going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It’s just a given law.

Say ‚Toronto‘ or ‚Ontario,‘ and the immediate thought associations are with a somewhat blander version of North America: a United States with a welfare regime and a more polite street etiquette, and the additionally reassuring visage of Queen Elizabeth on the currency.

In my research, I’ve interviewed a lot of people who never fit in, who are what you might call ‚different‘: scientists, artists, thinkers. And if you drop down deep into their work and who they are, there is a tremendous amount of self-acceptance.

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.

There’s a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn’t mean the soldier that committed them – that means the commanders.

We Americans… bear the ark of liberties of the world.

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

I believe the destiny of your generation – and your nation – is a rendezvous with excellence.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

There is not enough funding for basic sciences in India. We have to invest in a big way, and I am pushing that idea.

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

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

I don’t do research. I never have.

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.

Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

I think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.

The United States supports a strong, united Ukraine with productive and peaceful relationships with both the East and the West, with both Russia and Europe.

Even with cameras being very cheap, one thing that researchers noticed was that you look really bad in a videoconference image because the lighting is bad and you get shadows and things.

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

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

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

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

In the spring of 1929, I returned to the United States. I was homesick for this country. I had learned in my student days a great deal about the new physics. I wanted to pursue this myself, to explain it, and to foster its cultivation.

Why should man’s first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure?

In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.

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

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

If I hadn’t been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

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.

Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.

In the case of Yugoslavia v. NATO, one of the charges was genocide. The U.S. appealed to the court, saying that, by law, the United States is immune to the charge of genocide, self-immunized, and the court accepted that, so the case proceeded against the other NATO powers, but not against the United States.

The White House is the finest prison in the world.

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

I can’t imagine what this place would be – I can’t imagine what the country would be – with Donald Trump as our president.

I don’t have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student free in a public school to pray, or a teacher free to read the Bible publicly to the students. At the same time, we have a great degree of freedom for which I am grateful.

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.

How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

My publication record puts me in the top 0.5 percent of psychologists.

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

I don’t think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.

I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.

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.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

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

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

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.

Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It’s the magic sauce.

If you do a Google search, you will probably read a lot of stuff about how I am someone who wants to kill all the Jews and hates the United States.