T Quotes
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“The United States census records from 1850 to 1940, and all available Church records, uniformly show a preponderance of males in Utha, and in the Church. Indeed, the excess in Utah has usually been larger than for the whole United State... there was no surplus of women.”
“The United States Central Command of the Armed Forces has asked Geraldo Rivera to leave Iraq. It should also be noted that the only three other people that the U.S. military has asked to leave Iraq are Saddam Hussein and his two sons.”
“The United States comes in 1945 and we basically blow the whistle.”
“The United States compared to a number of our competitors is the only government in the world with any kind of safeguards, any kind of checks and balances. They may in many respects need to be strengthened and people need to be reassured, and they need to have their protections embodied in law.”
“The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.”
“The United States Congress, acting with large bipartisan majorities, at the urging of the President, enacted as the law of the land that all children are to be above average.”
“The United States Congress, like a lot of rich people, lives in two houses.”
“The United States Constitution builds politics right into the process of selecting federal judges. This third branch, the judiciary, is designed to have a longer view. To have individuals who are more insulated from politics. They're not elected directly. They're appointed for life. So, politics enters, but it's also, controlled. And if you bypass this process, I'm not sure what we do.”
“The United States Constitution grants education decision authority to the states and localities not to the president of the United States.”
“The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1937, Volume 6
“The United States Constitution is clear. It prohibits religious tests for public office.”
“The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary.”
“The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional powers that, while not preparing for armed conflict, do not fully trust one another.”
“The United States could dramatically reduce its carbon emissions per kilowatt-hour without raising its overall energy bill.”
Source: Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do
“The United States could not win the war if blacks continued as sharecroppers down South. The South was not an important area either politically or economically as far as the internationalists were concerned. (“The white South,” Myrdal wrote, “is itself a minority and a national problem.”) It was important only as a source of much-needed labor, at a time when most white southerners concurred because they no longer needed them to chop or harvest cotton and considered migration a simple solution to their biggest social problem. The foundations which did the thinking for the internationalist ruling class quickly realized that that flow of labor into the factories of the industrial North was impeded less by the system of political segregation in the South than by what they would eventually term the de-facto housing segregation in the North, which meant, in effect, the existence of residential patterns based on ethnic neighborhoods. The logistics problem facing Louis Wirth and his colleagues in the psychological-warfare establishment was not so much how to move the black up from the South — the wage differential and the railroads would accomplish that — but rather where to put him when he got there. Northern cities like Chicago, Detroit, and Philadelphia were essentially an assemblage of neighborhoods arranged as ethnic fiefdoms, dominated at that time by the most recent arrivals from Southern and Eastern Europe as well as the Irish and Germans.
As Wirth makes clear in his sociological writings, any group that has this kind of cohesiveness and population density had political power, and the question in his mind was precisely whether this political power was going to be used in the interests of the WASP ruling elite, who needed these people to fight a war that had nothing approaching majority support among ethnics of the sort Wirth viewed with suspicion.
This group of “ethnic” Americans posed a problem for the psychological-warfare establishment because it posed a problem to the ethnic group that made up that establishment. This group of people constituted a Gestalt - ethnic, Catholic, unionized, and urban - whose mutual and reinforcing affiliations effectively removed them from the influence of instruments of mass communication which the psychological-warfare establishment saw as critical in controlling them. If one added the demographic increase this group enjoyed — as Catholics they were forbidden to use contraceptives — it is easy enough to see that their increase in political power posed a threat to WASP hegemony over the culture at precisely the moment when the WASP elite was engaged in a life-and-death struggle with fascism. It was Wirth’s job to bring them under control, lest they jeopardize the war effort.”
Source: The Slaughter of Cities: Urban Renewal as Ethnic Cleansing
“The United States deserves nothing but love and adoration and gold medals left and right and peace prizes left and right, things we never get.”
“The United States did not choose to fight Islamic extremists. These terrorists chose to fight our way of life. They chose to challenge our existence.”
“The United States did not keep its promise to help us fight for freedom and it was in the same fight that the United States lost 50,000 of its young men.”
“The United States did not sign Kyoto, yet its emissions are not that different from the countries that did sign it.”
“The United States didn't create religious liberty. Religious liberty created the United States of America. It's the reason we are here today. This is an essential freedom and an essential right and I don't think you give up this right by simply taking a job.”
“The United States does have the highest rate of incarceration in the world dwarfing the rates of even highly repressive regimes like Russia, China or Iran. This reflects a radical shift in criminal justice policy, a stunning development that virtually no one - not even the best criminologists - predicted forty years ago.”
“The United States does not have a choice as to whether or not is will or will not play a great part in the world. Fate has made that choice for us. The only question is whether we will play the part well or badly.”
“The United States does not have a monopoly on crazy people. It's not the only country that has psychosis. And yet we kill each other in these mass shootings at rates that are exponentially higher than anyone else. Well, what's the difference? The difference is that these guys can stack up a bunch of ammunition in their houses, and that's sort of par for the course.”
“The United States does not have a very good record in the Middle East. I think they have the best of intentions but I think the problem is that it's very difficult from Washington, or from Iowa or Nebraska to understand what is happening in this crazy part of the world. In some cases US diplomacy has been somewhat naive.”
“The United States does not torture.”
“The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.”
“The United States doesn't have the will to work against al-Nusra or even ISIS, because they believe that this is a card they can use for their own agenda. If they attack al-Nusra or ISIS, they will lose a very important card regarding the situation in Syria.”
“The United States enjoy a scene of prosperity and tranquility under the new government that could hardly have been hoped for.”
Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations
“The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton, the founder of this newspaper, insisted on it.”
“The United States faces no serious military threats today, yet is constantly at war.”
“The United States finds itself with forces of reaction. Do I have to demonstrate this? The Taliban's annihilation of music and culture? The enslavement of women?”
Source: A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq
“The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.”
Source: History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations
“The United States found dozens of billions of dollars for military action in Iraq, so it should certainly be able to find a few billions of dollars to get rid of weapons of mass destruction. I'll assume that since the most powerful nation - the United States - has promised to pay for much of this, then its word will be kept. If it isn't, I don't think we can have a true partnership.”
“The United States furnishes the first example in history of a government deliberately depriving itself of all legislative control of religion.”
Source: Church and State in the United States ; Or, The American Idea of Religious Liberty and Its Practical Effects: With Official Documents
“The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution of the United States.”
“The United States government does not authorise or condone torture of detainees. Torture, and conspiracy to commit torture, are crimes under US law, wherever they may occur in the world.”
“The United States government does not negotiate with terrorists.”
“The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995.”
“The United States government has always been proud of the welcome it has extended to good men of every nation, seeking freedom and homes and bread.”
Source: JOHN MUIR Ultimate Collection: Travel Memoirs, Wilderness Essays, Environmental Studies & Letters (Illustrated): Picturesque California, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Our National Parks, Steep Trails, Travels in Alaska, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf, Save the Redwoods, The Cruise of the Corwin and more
“The United States Government has fought against creation of an international court to adjudicate the ability of national economies to pay debts.”
“The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.”
“The United States government was proud that, although perhaps 100,000 Iraqis had died in the Gulf War of 1991, there were only 48 American battle casualties. What it has concealed from the public is that 206,000 veterans of that war filed claims with the VA for injuries and illnesses. In the years since that war, 8,300 veterans have died, and 160,000 claims for disability have been recognized by the VA.”
“The United States government, in figuring our gross national product, defines 'durable goods' as anything that will last three years.”
Source: Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories
“The United States granted asylum to exactly eight of 24,559 Haitian refugees applying for political asylum during that period [1981]... only 20 percent of those polled [in the US] said immigration should be easier for Haitians, while 55 percent said it should be more difficult. After a decade during which less than 0.5 percent of Haitian applicants were granted asylum, one wonders how much more difficult it could be.”
Source: Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
“The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.”
“The United States had eight years of Barack Obama. He made it incredibly clear that he was a right-wing Democrat. He cited Ronald Reagan lovingly in every stump speech for the last six months of the presidential 2008 campaign. And he made it clear that he was going to be a business-friendly Democratic president, and that he was not going to rock the neoliberal boat. And he didn't.”
“The United States happens to be the only state in the world that has been condemned by the World Court for international terrorism.”
Source: Power and Terror: Conflict, Hegemony, and the Rule of Force
“The United States has 4 percent of the world's population and 34 percent of its Nobel laureates.”
“The United States has a huge budget deficit so taxes are going to have to go up and I certainly agree they should go up more on the rich than everyone else. That - that's just justice.”
“The United States has a specific and certain purpose on Earth. Each American has a specific and certain purpose in America.”
Source: The Pursuit of Happiness: A Book of Poems Honoring Our American Values