“This year, the United States renewed funding of reproductive healthcare through the United Nations Population Fund, and more funding is on the way. The U.S. Congress recently appropriated more than $648 million in foreign assistance to family planning and reproductive health programs worldwide. That's the largest allocation in more than a decade - since we last had a Democratic president, I might add.” WayYearsStatesMightLastsNationsPresidentUnitedMillionsUnited StatesProgramAddDemocraticCongressPopulationDecadesPlanningFundHealthcareAssistanceUnited NationsFundingPopulation ControlFamily PlanningWorld PopulationAllocationReproductive Health Author:Hillary Clinton
“We have to make sure that not only we [politicians] actually focus on, but the entire nation knows we're focusing on, growth and competition within the United States of America and compete internationally. I don't know anywhere where it's written that we have to be number two.” KnowsTwoStatesAmericaNationsGrowthUnitedNumbersUnited StatesFocusWrittenPoliticianCompetitionUnited States Of America Author:Joe Biden
“I saw a threat in Saddam Hussein. Members of the United States Congress from both political parties saw that same threat. The United Nation's saw the threat. I made the right decision in getting Saddam Hussein out of power.” MadeStatesPoliticalNationsDecisionUnitedPartyUnited StatesSawsMembersThreatCongressSaddamPolitical PartiesUnited NationsHusseinRight Decision Author:George W. Bush
“After Apollo 17, America stopped looking towards the next horizon. The United States had become a space-faring nation, but threw it away. We have sacrificed space exploration for space exploitation, which is interesting but scarcely visionary.” StatesAmericaNextNationsSpaceInterestingUnitedUnited StatesExplorationHorizonExploitationApolloVisionariesSpace Exploration Author:Gene Cernan
“America ... holds up its way of life as the ideal for every nation, and seeks to impose its own standards of living - which many people think ridiculously and unwholesomely high - on others, partly of course in the search for markets. If it were openly stated that it was just a search for markets, that would be one thing, but it is not; by a tremendous propaganda campaign this materialistic conception is held up as an ideal, as somehow part of liberty, and above all, as a form of happiness.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayWould BeAmericaFormCoursesNationsLibertyUnited StatesOne ThingStandardsIdealsCampaignsPropagandaConceptionImperialismGlobalizationMaterialisticStandards Of Living Author:Ann Bridge
“Immigrants bring to America the values of faith in God, love of family, hard work and self reliance - the values that made us a great nation to begin with. We've all seen those values in action, through the service and sacrifice of more than 35,000 foreign-born men and women currently on active duty in the United States military.” MenMadeSelfHardStatesHumorActionAmericaPoliticalValuesNationsBornUnitedUnited StatesSacrificeMilitaryDutyHard WorkMen And WomenActiveGod LoveImmigrantsFaith In GodSelf RelianceRelianceFamily LovePolitical HumorGreat NationsUnited States MilitaryService And Sacrifice Author:George W. Bush
“The United States is strongly committed to the IPCC process of international cooperation on global climate change. We consider it vital that the community of nations be drawn together in an orderly, disciplined, rational way to review the history of our global environment, to assess the potential for future climate change, and to develop effective programs. The state of the science, the social and economic impacts, and the appropriate strategies all are crucial components to a global resolution. The stakes here are very high; the consequences, very significant.” WayStatesTogetherNationsSocialProcessCommunityUnitedUnited StatesEnvironmentEconomicConsequenceProgramImpactStrategyClimateClimate ChangeInternationalCommittedSignificantRationalAppropriateResolutionReviewsCooperationCrucialStakesComponentsOrderlyInternational CooperationDrawn Together Author:George H. W. Bush
“I spend every day up at the United Nations where I have to interact with 192 other countries. I know how well the United States is viewed.” KnowsWellsCountryStatesNationsUnitedUnited StatesKnow HowOther CountriesUnited Nations Author:Susan Rice
“A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and to engage constantly in multilateral diplomacy.” NeedsStatesNationsInterestUnitedUnited StatesTyrantsDiplomacyGreat Nations Author:Elliott Abrams
“Obamas foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the United States allies with, engages with, or must confront.” NeedsSelfStatesNationsUnitedUnited StatesPolicyFocusedAlliesForeign PolicySelf Centered Author:Elliott Abrams
“United States and Coalition forces will remain in Iraq and will operate under American command as part of a multinational force authorized by the United Nations.” StatesForceNationsUnitedUnited StatesIraqCommandUnited NationsCoalitionsMultinationals Author:Jim Gerlach
“The gap between the rich and the poor is wider in the United States than it is in any of the other industrialized nations.” StatesNationsPoorUnitedUnited StatesRichGaps Author:Gerald Celente
“Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in the sense that it was the United States initial or baptismal experience in nation-building.” FirstsStatesNationsUnitedPowerfulFictionUnited StatesTeachingBuildingToolsIraqAfghanistanVietnamInitialsVery PowerfulPhilippinesNation BuildingTeaching History Author:Miguel Syjuco
“This independent Negro movement is able to intervene with terrific force upon the general social and political life of the nation, despite the fact that it is waged under the banner of democratic rights ... [and] is able to exercise a powerful influence upon the revolutionary proletariat, that it has got a great contribution to make to the development of the proletariat in the United States, and that it is in itself a constituent part of the struggle for socialism.” StatesFactsAblePoliticalForceNationsSocialUnitedPowerfulUnited StatesStruggleRightsInfluenceMovementDevelopmentExerciseIndependentDemocraticSocialismDespiteRevolutionaryContributionTerrificBannerConstituentsProletariatPolitical LifeDemocratic Rights Author:C. L. R. James
“The most frustrated and most stymied it is the fact that the United States of America is the one advanced nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient common-sense, gun-safety laws. Even in the face of repeated mass killings.” StatesFactsEarthAmericaFacesLawNationsUnitedCommonUnited StatesMassGunSafetyKillingCommon SenseSufficientFrustratedUnited States Of AmericaGun Safety Author:Barack Obama
“There are at the present time two great nations in the world--the Russians and the Americans. The American relies upon his personal interest to accomplish his ends and gives free scope to the unguided exertions and common sense of the people. The Russian centers all his authority of society in a single arm. The principal instrument of the former is freedom; of the latter, servitude. Their starting point is different and their courses are not the same; yet each of them seems marked by the will of Heaven to sway the destinies of half the globe.” PeopleWorldGivingTwoDifferentEndsSeemsCoursesHeavenNationsInterestCommonHalfDestinyUnited StatesArmsAuthorityInstrumentsStartingAccomplishCommon SenseFormerRelyLatterPrincipalGlobesScopeStarting PointServitudeExertionGreat NationsPresent TimeRely UponPersonal Interest Author:Alexis de Tocqueville
“We simply must have faith in each other, faith in our ability to govern ourselves, and faith in the future of this Nation. Restoring that faith and that confidence to America is now the most important task we face.” ImportantAmericaFacesFaithNationsAbilityUnited StatesConfidenceTasksHave FaithRestoring Author:Jimmy Carter
“America must remain, at any cost, the custodian of freedom, human dignity and economic security. The United States must be strong, so that no nation may dare attack.” HumansMayStatesAmericaStrongNationsUnitedUnited StatesEconomicSecurityCostDignityDareHuman DignityCustodiansEconomic Security Author:Louis B. Mayer
“Interventionism is inextricable from the American idea. If the United States retreats into isolationism, it ceases to be itself ? a nation dedicated, however much it falls short, to a universalist ideal of freedom.” IfsIdeasStatesFallNationsUnitedUnited StatesIdealsCeaseDedicatedRetreatDiplomacyIsolationismInterventionism Author:Roger Cohen
“What has a great value to us as a nation is the internet itself. The internet is critical infrastructure to the United States. We use the internet for every communication that businesses rely on every day.” StatesUseValuesNationsUnitedUnited StatesCommunicationInternetCriticalRelyInfrastructureGreat Value Author:Edward Snowden
“When it comes to the internet, when it comes to the United States' technical economy, we have more to lose than any other nation on earth.” StatesEarthNationsLosesUnitedUnited StatesEconomyInternet Author:Edward Snowden
“The United States is more reliant on the technical systems. We're more reliant on the critical infrastructure of the internet than any other nation out there. And when there's such a low barrier to entering the domain of cyber-attacks we're starting a fight that we can't win.” StatesFightingWinningNationsUnitedUnited StatesInternetLowsStartingCriticalBarriersEnteringInfrastructureDomainCan't WinCyberCyber Attacks Author:Edward Snowden