American Quotations..

• I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see.
  Julian Assange # Freedom of speech, Legislation, Europe, America, Improvement Quotes
• In the Church, priests also are sinners. But I am personally convinced that the constant presence in the press of the sins of Catholic priests, especially in the United States, is a planned campaign, as the percentage of these offenses among priests is not higher than in other categories, and perhaps it is even lower.
  Pope Benedict XVI # Church, Sin, Sex, America, Christianity, Negative Quotes
• Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow. Flexible and efficient markets for labor and capital, an entrepreneurial tradition, and a general willingness to tolerate and even embrace technological and economic change all contribute to this resiliency.
  Ben Bernanke # America, Economic, Changes, Technology, Entrepreneur Quotes
• A collapse in U.S. stock prices certainly would cause a lot of white knuckles on Wall Street. But what effect would it have on the broader U.S. economy? If Wall Street crashes, does Main Street follow? Not necessarily.
  Ben Bernanke # Stocks, America, Economic, Wall Street Quotes
• I think that having good data, good statistics—and the United States generally has better macroeconomic statistics than most countries—and having good economists to interpret those data and present the policy alternatives, has a substantially beneficial effect on policymaking in the United States.
  Ben Bernanke # Good, Information, Research, America, Economic, Politics Quotes
• This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism.
  Tony Blair # America, Democracy, Commitment, World Quotes
• It is unlikely that there will be any substantial progress toward a final settlement without active American leadership and participation.
  Wolf Blitzer # Leadership, America, World, Politics Quotes
• It is time for the United States, as the sole recognized intermediary, to consider more forceful action for peace. The rest of the world will welcome this leadership
  Wolf Blitzer # America, Peace, Action, Politics, World Quotes
• I don't think the market can keep going up. In the U.S., we see real estate not going up.. houses are selling at lower prices. You can't have anything going up 10 percent to 20 percent to 30 percent indefinitely.
  Eli Broad # Market, America, Real Estate, Selling, Success, Wealth, Reality Quotes
• I am not a patient person. My friends and colleagues will confirm this. But, frankly, we should all feel a little more impatient with the state of public education in America today.
  Eli Broad # Patience, Friendship, Colleagues, America, Education, School Quotes
• With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed child on the planet could be well fed, have clean water and sanitation and a local school to go to.
  Bob Brown # America, Achievement, Decisions, Politics Quotes
• Europe should now respond positively and enthusiastic to the American offer ... about the elimination of export subsidies and the reduction of tariffs.
  Gordon Brown # America, Economic, Politics, Financial Quotes
• I believe there is a chance for progress if countries worried about services and market access can make some concessions and America and Europe can look again at agricultural protectionism.
  David Cameron # Belief, Progress, Worry, Ecology, America Quotes
• Both Russia and the U.S. understand now what's really going on at the Balkans and what needs to be done. We were searching for ways of settling the conflict, but it's a difficult task.
  Viktor Chernomyrdin # America, Understanding, Conflict, Difficult Quotes
• I don't think about the reaction of the Americans before I say things. I just speak my mind -- which is trained in the world's best schools, and refined by a thousand years of French cultural superiority.
  Jacques Chirac # Thinking, America, Education, Confidence, Strong, Experience Quotes
• I'm sympathetic to the Americans incapacity to comprehend my thought process. After all, their nation has yet to spawn any genuine philosophers or legitimate literature. All their finest minds are devoted to developing ways to make hamburgers faster and cheaper.
  Jacques Chirac # America, Business, Improvement, Strategy Quotes
• The return to the Organization of the United States of America, the bearers of a great and diversified democratic culture that has inspired many other peoples.
  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi # America, Politics, Great, Democracy, Society, Culture, Inspirational Quotes
• The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi # Best, America, World, Strong, Improvement Quotes
• When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.
  Bill Clinton # Education, Dream, America, Improvement Quotes
• You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say.
  Bill Clinton # America, Opportunity, Wrong, Interesting Quotes
• America just works better when more people have a chance to live their dreams.
  Bill Clinton # America, Dream, Opportunity, Positive, Growth Quotes
• There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
  Bill Clinton # America Quotes
• We are Americans. We have the right to participate and debate any administration.
  Hillary Clinton # America Quotes
• Actually, if you could see close in my eyes, the American flag is waving in both of them and up my spine is growing this red, white and blue stripe.
  Walt Disney # America, Funny, Interesting Quotes
• It has been a fantastic ride for the past 20 years. Ups and downs, to be sure, but filled with great satisfaction in building this wonderful creator of classic American culture into one of the premier entertainment-orientated companies in the world.
  Michael Eisner # Experience, Business, Satisfaction, America, Company Quotes
• I never use the concept, multipolar. I use multilateral. Because we have only one global power: whether you like it or not, this is the United States.
  Joschka Fischer # Globalization, Power, America, Communication Quotes
• America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
  Sigmund Freud # America, World, Success, Failure Quotes
• America is a mistake, admittedly a gigantic mistake, but a mistake nevertheless.
  Sigmund Freud # Mistakes, American Quotes
• Remember America, I gave you the Internet and I can take it away.
  Al Gore # America, Internet, Fun, Power Quotes
• I am Al Gore, and I used to be the next president of the United States of America.
  Al Gore # America, Self, Funny Quotes
• America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.
  Mikhail Gorbachev # America, Democracy, Teaching, Advertising, Ideas, Life, World Quotes
• We won't just automatically click our heels and follow the Americans.
  John Howard # America, Confident Quotes
• Terrorists oppose nations such as the United States and Australia not because of what we have done but because of who we are and because of the values that we hold in common.
  John Howard # America, Terrorism, Values, Politics Quotes
• We have bloated bureaucracies in Corporate America. The root of the problem is the absence of real corporate democracy.
  Carl Icahn # Problems, Democracy, America Quotes
• With some exceptions, the wrong people are running U.S. companies. It's been that way for years, and it hasn't gotten much better.
  Carl Icahn # Wrong, People, America, Power, Company Quotes
• It is inevitable for China and the United States to have different views on some issues as the two countries have different history, culture and domestic situation.
  Hu Jintao # Asia, America, Different, History, Culture, Opinion Quotes
• I am not sure that many people in America like Bill Gates.
  Mikhail Khodorkovsky # American Quotes
• The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.
  Phil Knight # America, Problems, Mistakes, Courage Quotes
• I believe that continued strong consumer acceptance of our products at retail and the strengthening of our organization will enable us to manage through the challenges in our U.S. footwear business and lay the foundation for another round of growth.
  Phil Knight # Belief, Customers, Support, Company, Challenging, American Quotes
• I have repeatedly noted the importance of relations with the U.S. and hope that the new U.S. administration will realize the hopelessness of dialogue with us from the position of force and in the language of sanctions.
  Alexander Lukashenko # International Relations, Future, America, Power, Political Quotes
• The opposition is necessary because the west wants it.
  Alexander Lukashenko # Reason, America, Politics, Democracy Quotes
• What should I be afraid of? It is the officials of the U.S. Department of State who should be afraid.
  Dmitry Medvedev # Fear, America, Politics, Government Quotes
• I loved this country where everyone greets passers-by and opens his door wide. Looking at America, every voyager has the eyes of Christopher Columbus.
  Francois Mitterrand # Love, America Quotes
• We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.
  Richard Nixon # America, Great, Government, Society, Positive Quotes
• I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.
  Richard Nixon # Quitting, Politics, Government, American Quotes
• Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are serious and they are many.
  Barack Obama # America, Challenges, Serious Quotes
• Nobody really thinks that Bush or McCain have a real answer for the challenges we face. So what they are going to try to do is make you scared of me.
  Barack Obama # America, Competition, Elections, Answers, Fear Quotes
• The world must remember that it was not simply international institutions - not just treaties and declarations - that brought stability to a post-World War II world. Whatever mistakes we have made, the plain fact is this: The United States of America has helped underwrite global security for more than six decades with the blood of our citizens and the strength of our arms.
  Barack Obama # World, International Relations, Mistakes, America, Security Quotes
• People don't expect government to solve all their problems. But they sense, deep in their bones, that with just a slight change in priorities, we can make sure that every child in America has a decent shot at life, and that the doors of opportunity remain open to all. They know we can do better.
  Barack Obama # Government, America, Problems, Solutions, Priority, Changes, Opportunity Quotes
• For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.
  Michelle Obama # Changes, Adult, America, Improvement, Growth Quotes
• Millions of Americans who know that Barack understands their dreams; that Barack will fight for people like them; and that Barack will finally bring the change we need.
  Michelle Obama # America, Dream, Changes, Nation, President Quotes
• Before we can work on the problems, we have to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation.
  Michelle Obama # Problems, Solutions, Soul, Nation, America, Negative Quotes
• Barack, like any leader, is human. And, you know, our challenges in this country isn't finding the next person who's gonna deliver us from our own evil. Because our challenges are us. The challenges that this country faces is how are we as individuals in this society gonna change? What are we gonna do differently?
  Michelle Obama # Human, Leadership, Challenges, Change, Society, Different, Evil, Questions, America Quotes
• And in my own life, in my own small way, I've tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That's why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service, working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities.
  Michelle Obama # Life, America, Job, Quitting, Career, Government, Volunteer, Empowerment Quotes
• Iowa will make the difference. If Barack doesn't win Iowa, it is just a dream. If we win Iowa, then we can move to the world as it should be.
  Michelle Obama # America, Elections, Winning, President, Dream, World, Change, Different Quotes
• There is still a lot of hard work that we as a country need to do.
  Michelle Obama # Hard Work, America, Improvement Quotes
• You can say on one hand the market is crazy but it's not 1999. People have had their medicine from overexuberance. I find it really interesting that those two businesses, Yahoo! and Google, which are just online advertising businesses, are valued at more than the media behemoths in America.
  James Packer # America, Brands, Stock Market, Crazy Quotes
• I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment. And I've learned quickly these past few days that if you're not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone.
  Sarah Palin # Politicians, America, Media, Elite, Politics Quotes
• Creating new job opportunities for our young Alaskans and preparing our kids for those opportunities is a top priority of my administration.
  Sarah Palin # Job, America, Opportunity, Priority, Politics Quotes
• America is looking for answers. She's looking for a new direction; the world is looking for a light. That light can come from America's great North Star; it can come from Alaska.
  Sarah Palin # America, Important, Answers, Hope Quotes
• Washington has got to, across the board, lower taxes for small businesses so that our mom and pops can reinvest and hire people, so that our businesses can thrive.
  Sarah Palin # Business, Investing, America, Tax, Politics Quotes
• We need American sources of resources, we need American energy, brought to you by American ingenuity and produced by American workers.
  Sarah Palin # America, Energy, Politics Quotes
• We don't need to fundamentally transform America. We need to restore America.
  Sarah Palin # Changes, American Quotes
• America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that is nothing to apologize for.
  Sarah Palin # America, Military Quotes
• Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
  Pope John Paul II # Changes, Politics, America, Responsibility, Democracy, Justice, Freedom, Globalization Quotes
• It is a mistake to apply American democratic procedures to the faith and the truth. You cannot take a vote on the truth. The value of democracy stands or falls with the values which it embodies and promotes.
  Pope John Paul II # Mistakes, America, Democracy, Faith, Truth, Value Quotes
• America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.
  Nancy Pelosi # America, Terrorist Quotes
• We must remain focused on the greatest threat to the security of the United States, the clear and present danger of terrorism. We know what we must do to protect America, but this Administration is failing to meet the challenge. Democrats have a better way to ensure our homeland security.
  Nancy Pelosi # Focus, Great, Protection, America, Terrorist, Challenging, Failure, Government, Party Quotes
• Protecting America from terrorism requires more than just resolve, it requires a plan. As we have seen in Iraq, planning is not the Bush Administration's strong suit.
  Nancy Pelosi # Protection, America, Terrorist, Planning, Iraq, Government, Strong Quotes
• America must be a light to the world, not just a missile.
  Nancy Pelosi # America, World, Improvement, Positive Quotes
• The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.
  Colin Powell # Reason, America, Doubt, Peace, Action, Power, Loss Quotes
• In the United States, you first elect the electors and then they vote for the presidential candidates. In Russia, the president is elected through the direct vote of the whole population. That might be even more democratic.
  Vladimir Putin # America, Politics, Democracy, Wrong Quotes
• Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come - and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance.
  Condoleezza Rice # Success, America, Help, Politics Quotes
• We need a common enemy to unite us.
  Condoleezza Rice # American Quotes
• First of all America is very important, we must have better economic relations. That calls us to the cultural area which is important. Turkey has often been judged solely on its past. The democracy we have is not perfect. We are learning.
  Sakip Sabanci # America, Economic, Politics, Learning Quotes
• Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.
  Paul Samuelson # Company, Philanthropy, Entrepreneur, Profit, Strategy, America Quotes
• At the beginning of the NATO enlargement process in the early 1990s, an American diplomat once coined a memorable phrase: by joining NATO, you dont leave your neighbourhood. This remark remains as valid today as it was then.
  Jaap de Hoop Scheffer # America, Nation, NATO, Teamwork Quotes
• I think there is no divide today between the U.S. and Europe as far as the main objectives of Iraq.
  Javier Solana # America, NATO, Iraq, Partnership Quotes
• The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.
  Ted Turner # America Quotes
• I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America. I am just trying to get ideas, any kind of ideas that will help our company. Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.
  Sam Walton # America, Idea, Improvement, Company Quotes
• There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.
  Sam Walton # Business, America, Dream Quotes
• If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.
  Woodrow Wilson # Government, Power, America, Ambition Quotes
• There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.
  Woodrow Wilson # President, American Quotes
• This is a business that thrives on competition (Casino Resorts). For 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the strip hosts the most violent competition in business in America.
  Steve Wynn # Business, Competition, American Quotes
• Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.
  Malcolm X # Action, America Quotes
• America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem.
  Malcolm X # America, Understanding, Religion, Racism, Problems, Society Quotes
• America has a very serious problem. Not only does America have a very serious problem, but our people have a very serious problem. America's problem is us. We're her problem. The only reason she has a problem is she doesn't want us here.
  Malcolm X # America, Problems, Serious, Black Quotes
• I think there are plenty of good people in America, but there are also plenty of bad people in America and the bad ones are the ones who seem to have all the power and be in these positions to block things that you and I need.
  Malcolm X # People, Good, America, Bad, Power Quotes
• The young whites, and blacks, too, are the only hope that America has, the rest of us have always been living in a lie.
  Malcolm X # America, Black, Hope, Lies Quotes
• Both U.S. President Barack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have used Facebook as a way to organize their supporters. From the protests against the Colombian FARC, a 40-year old terrorist organization, to fighting oppressive, fringe groups in India, people use Facebook as a platform to build connections and organize action.
  Mark Zuckerberg # President, America, France, Voter, Facebook, Support, Terrorism, Protest, India, Website, Internet, Action, Planning Quotes

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