“There are many countries where you can only believe more or you can believe less. But in the United States we have this incredible smorgasbord, and it really interests me why people are drawn to one faith rather than another, especially to a system of belief that to an outsider seems absurd or dangerous.” PeopleBelieveCountryStatesSeemsBeliefInterestUnitedUnited StatesDangerousIncrediblesAbsurdOutsiders Author:Lawrence Wright
“My parents immigrated to the United States with $10 in their pocket and a belief that the America they had heard about really did exist as the land of opportunity.” StatesAmericaOpportunityBeliefParentUnitedUnited StatesHeardLandPocketsLand Of Opportunity Author:Mia Love
“When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our Founding Fathers did that was so genius, is that they made the Senate the place where compromises are supposed to happen because of the makeup of the Senate.” PeopleMadeIdeasDifferentStatesHappensFatherBeliefRealizingUnitedUnited StatesGeniusCompromiseMakeupSenateFoundingOur Founding FathersDifferent Ideas Author:Claire McCaskill
“Prior to his takeover of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini was camping near Paris, giving daily news conferences to a fawning international press corps without a murmur of complaint to France from the United States about the disaster it was coddling in the incredibly naive liberal belief that this extremist cleric would be an improvement over the Shah.” GivingStatesWould BeBeliefUnitedUnited StatesNewsPressesInternationalImprovementDisasterFranceParisIranComplaintsNaiveConferencesExtremistCampingTakeoversDaily NewsKhomeini Author:Alexander Haig
“[In] the United States, we've always been held together by the belief that it doesn't matter where you came from. It matters where you're going.” MatterStatesTogetherBeliefUnitedUnited States Author:Condoleezza Rice
“We in the United States are pluralistic respecting ultimate beliefs. Profound values exist apart from a devotion to a god. Indeed, those who discriminate against nonbelievers flout the principle of religious tolerance that they often profess.” StatesValuesBeliefReligiousUnitedPrinciplesUnited StatesAtheismUltimateProfoundPositive AtheismToleranceDevotionReligious Tolerance Author:Norman Dorsen
“we have accumulated a wealth of historical experience which confirms our belief that the scales of American justice are out of balance.” BeliefWealthJusticeUnited StatesBalanceHistoricalScalesAmerican Justice Author:Angela Davis
“I feel that I'm sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of Alabama, and those constitutions are founded upon a fundamental belief in God ... my display of the Ten Commandments and prayer before sessions are simply acknowledgments of God.” FeelsStatesBeliefPrayerUnitedUnited StatesTenConstitutionFundamentalsScaryDisplayCommandmentsSessionBelief In GodAlabamaTen CommandmentsAcknowledgmentConstitution Of The United States Author:Roy Moore
“The main problem, certainly, for the people who will not get vaccinated with Thimerosal, which was put into polio vaccine. And the belief was that it may cause autism. And there's been an awful lot done in terms of studies in Western Europe, Canada, the United States, and no correlation was found between Thimerosal and autism from those children who took vaccines. Indeed, when Thimerosal was taken out of many of these vaccines, the autism rate in the United States still rose.” PeopleMayChildrenStillsStatesDoneProblemFoundBeliefCausesTermUnitedUnited StatesStudyTakenEuropeRoseWesternRateAwfulCanadaAutismVaccinesCorrelationPolioWestern EuropePolio Vaccine Author:David Oshinsky
“I place my own hope for the United States in the growth of belief among the unqualified that they are in fact qualified: they can articulate and be responsible and hold power” StatesFactsBeliefGrowthMy OwnUnitedUnited StatesResponsibleQualifiedBeing ResponsibleUnqualified Book:Stokely speaks; Black power back to Pan-Africanism Source: Stokely speaks; Black power back to Pan-Africanism
“Every presidential candidate highlights patriotism, but Mr. Romneys is backed by the Mormon belief that the United States was chosen by God to play a special role in history, its Constitution divinely inspired.” StatesPlayBeliefUnitedRolesUnited StatesSpecialConstitutionInspiredChosenPresidentialCandidatesRomneyHighlightsPresidential CandidateChosen By God Author:Jodi Kantor
“The United States, a land of immigrants from every corner of the world, has been strengthened and unified because its newcomers have historically chosen ultimately to forgo their native language for the English language. We have all benefited from the sharing of ideas, of cultures and beliefs, made possible by a common language. We have all enriched each other.” WorldHas BeensMadeIdeasStatesCultureBeliefLanguageUnitedCommonUnited StatesLandCornersChosenNativeImmigrantsEnglish LanguageUnifiedCommon LanguageNewcomersCorners Of The WorldNative Language Author:S. I. Hayakawa