T Quotes
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“The United States has to be a leader in the world, because the problem is: If we are not leading, nobody else will.”
“The United States has to go through structural reforms in terms of improving our education system or revamping our infrastructure or, you know, looking at some regulations that weren't properly controlling excesses on Wall Street.”
“The United States has to have the capability to deal with more than one enemy at one time and be able to confront them and win.”
“The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963
“The United States has used force abroad more than 130 times, but has only declared war five times - the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Spanish-American War, and World Wars I and II.”
“The United States has weakened itself with Iraq; Iranians feel victorious - they feel capable of filling the void. I think from the very outset the nuclear issue has been secondary to the more strategic outlook, in which the United States has, since 1991, pursued a policy that it cannot permit any country in the region to become too powerful and challenge American hegemony.”
“The United States has worse income inequality than Nigeria.”
“The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.”
“The United States has, overall, the most effective system of higher education the world has ever known.”
Source: Troubled Times for American Higher Education: The 1990s and Beyond
“The United States has, unfortunately, been victimized by terrorism going back decades.”
“The United States have adventured upon a great and noble experiment, which is believed to have been hazarded in the absence of all previous precedent - that of total separation of Church and State. No religious establishment by law exists among us. The conscience is left free from all restraint and each is permitted to worship his Maker after his own judgement.”
“The United States have developed a new weapon that destroys people but it leaves buildings standing. It's called the stock market.”
“The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations.”
Source: Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress: At the Commencement of the Third Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress
“The United States have no possessions in the east and do not desire to have any, as other countries do.”
“The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid. In Washington, D.C., our nation’s capitol, it is estimated that three out of four young black men (and nearly all those in the poorest neighborhoods) can expect to serve time in prison.”
Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
“The United States in many ways resembles a Third World country - far more elevated, but it has many of those structural characteristics: the extreme inequality of wealth, the deterioration of infrastructure because it only serves poor people, predatory operations, huge corruption, and so on.”
“The United States in particular and the West in general should be feeling a little embarrassed about all that lecturing we did to the Third World.”
“The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which children are distinctly worse off than adults.”
“The United States incarnates a more cutthroat form of capitalism, while the Scandinavian countries, and to a lesser extent Germany, are the representatives of a more cuddly capitalism. According to this view, insofar as innovation at the technological frontier relies on strong monetary incentives, the countries that aim for frontier innovation should forgo the goals of insurance and equality: in other words, they should renounce “cuddly capitalism” in favor of a “cutthroat” form of capitalism. As for the countries who choose cuddly capitalism, they would have no alternative but growth by imitation of technologies invented by the frontier countries. The “cuddly” countries provide their citizens with greater equality and insurance, but their growth depends ultimately on the growth of the “cutthroat” countries, which, one might say, work for the benefit of the rest of the world.”
Source: The Power of Creative Destruction: Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations
“The United States influences government and life everywhere else.”
“The United States inherited a seemingly inexhaustible fortune in natural resources, yet it has responded to its environment with a dismaying mixture of materialism and inertia. The nation was virtually founded upon a ubiquitous desire for access to land and its contents. Its amazing growth during the nineteenth century was based directly upon the exploitation—immediate, unplanned, full use of soils, minerals, forests, and rivers. Equitable access to these natural bounties rather than constitutional guarantees would be the practical basis for democracy. Subsequently, political institutions were shaped in such a way that they could facilitate the disposition of the public domain. But that expectation, as later generations ruefully observed, did not materialize. The combination of economics and government had instead produced a handful of owners and policy makers who were beyond the control of the ballot box.”
Source: Dams, parks & politics;: Resource development & preservation in the Truman-Eisenhower era
“The United States initially poured money and arms into Pakistan in the hope of building a major fighting force that could assist in defending Asia against communism. Pakistan repeatedly failed to live up to its promises to provide troops for any of the wars the United States fought against communist forces, instead using American weapons in its wars with India.”
Source: Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding
“The United States invaded Iraq to gain control of one of the major sources of the world's energy.”
“The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.”
“The United States invented the Internet and it has been our gift to the world, paid for by our taxpayers. The U.N.'s desire to take that gift as a means of increasing its power must be stopped.”
“The United States investigates everything - usually after it's dead.”
“The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country.”
“The United States is a Christian nation founded upon Christian principles and beliefs.”
“The United States is a country where everybody can start again.”
“The United States is a fake country.”
“The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.”
“The United States is a land of free speech. Nowhere is speech freer - not even here where we sedulously cultivate it even in its most repulsive form.”
Source: War Speeches: From September 11, 1943 to August 16, 1945
“The United States is a land that, if you work hard and keep your dream alive, you may or may not achieve it.
However, if you cheat, lie, manipulate, and bribe, you will definitely succeed.”
“The United States is a melting pot. Like John F. Kennedy said, it's a nation of immigrants. But Donald Trump wants to build a fence that clearly makes the statement: "You and I are divided. We're different, and you're dangerous." That kind of thinking stops human, civilized evolution. It's dangerous to create that kind of tension.”
“The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.”
“The United States is a place where the men govern, but the women rule.”
“The United States is a rogue state violating international law in many, many ways that California wouldn't have to if it seceded and became a nation.”
“The United States is a safe harbor.”
“The United States is a society in which people not only can get by without knowing much about the wider world but are systematically encouraged not to think independently or critically, and instead to accept the mythology of the United States as a benevolent, misunderstood giant as it lumbers around the world trying to do good.”
“The United States is a special case, and for me, very interesting. It's studied carefully and we know a lot about it. One of the most striking features of the elections is the class-based character of the vote. Now, class is not discussed or even measured in the United States. In fact, the word is almost obscene, except for the term "middle class." And you can't get exact class data; the census doesn't even give class data. But you can sort of see the significance of it just from income figures.”
“The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward.”
“The United States is a very insular society. Most people know very little about the outside world and don't care that much. They're concerned with their own affairs.”
“The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place.”
“The United States is a warning rather than an example to the world.”
“The United States is a world unto itself. We have mountains, we have deserts, we have a river that equals the Yangtze River, that equals the Nile. We have the greatest cities in the world - among the greatest cities in the world. We have a large population. We have challenges. We have an indigenous population.”
“The United States is absolutely the most dangerous country in the world.”
“The United States is alone among all the countries in that it does not permit US military forces to be under any threat. Other countries are willing to have forces in peace-keeping operations where they sometimes are under threat, but the US is not willing to do that.”
“The United States is already antique.”
“The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red man, the American Indian... It's actually a shame to be a so-called American, because everybody living there is a usurper, an invader taking part in this crime, which is to rob the land, rob the country and kill all the American Indians.”
“The United States is at a critical juncture in time. Our government is riddled with historic debt, and the limited resources of philanthropic and non-profit efforts cannot meet the scale of social challenges we face with necessary force.”