“Bottom line is President Obama has said that it is a top priority of the United States of America to ensure that Iran never achieves a nuclear.” SaidStatesAmericaPresidentLinesUnitedUnited StatesAchieveBottomNuclearPrioritiesIranPresident ObamaUnited States Of AmericaBottom LineTop Priorities Author:Mitt Romney
“Really, an historic night last night. You may have heard, Barack Obama will be the first black president of the United States of America. ... Obama is also the first Democrat to receive more than 50 percent of the vote since Jimmy Carter, the first senator to be elected since Jack Kennedy, the first Muslim to be ... I said too much.” FirstsMaySaidStatesLastsAmericaNightBlackPresidentUnitedUnited StatesToo MuchHeardPercentVoteDemocratBarackSenatorsUnited States Of AmericaHistoricLast NightJimmyCarterJack Kennedy Author:Jon Stewart
“Our enemy is Al Qaeda and its allies, people who have publicly said they wish to attack the United States again, people who have publicly called on nuclear physicists and engineers to help them gain access to nuclear weapons, which, as the whole world knows, Pakistan has.” PeopleKnowsWorldSaidStatesWholeHelpingWishUnitedEnemyUnited StatesWeaponsGainsAccessNuclearWhole WorldAlsAlliesNuclear WeaponsEngineersPakistanPhysicistAl Qaeda Author:Richard Holbrooke
“I'm using the death penalty to keep Alabama family safe from the most violent criminals, why? It's because it works. Recent studies have said that every time an execution is carried out in the United States, up to 75 murders are prevented the next year.” YearsSaidStatesNextUnitedUnited StatesStudySafeMurderCriminalsViolentExecutionPenaltiesDeath PenaltyNext YearAlabamaViolent Criminals Author:Troy King
“The great common people of this country are slaves, and monopoly is the master. . . . The politicians said we suffered from overproduction. Overproduction, when 10,000 little children, so statistics tell us, starve to death every year in the United States. . . . We will stand by our homes and stay by our fireside by force if necessary, and we will not pay our debts to the loan-shark companies until the government pays its debts to us.” PeopleIfsYearsChildrenLittlesSaidCountryStatesHomeGovernmentForceUnitedCommonPayCompanyUnited StatesMastersPoliticianSlaveDebtStatisticsLoanMonopolySharks Author:Mary Elizabeth Lease
“Marx said that religion was the opiate of the people. In the United States today, opiates are the religion of the people.” PeopleSaidStatesTodayUnitedUnited StatesOpiates Author:Thomas Szasz
“The threat of mutually assured destruction worked for the United States during the Cold War because it had proved its willingness to drop nuclear bombs on enemy cities at the end of World War II. It might work less well for Israel, because the Israeli Air Force has never deliberately targeted a large civilian population center, and its leaders have said its morality would not permit it do so.” WorldWellsSaidWarEndsStatesMightForceUnitedCitiesLeaderEnemyUnited StatesAirColdMoralityDestructionThreatPopulationIsraelNuclearWar Of The WorldsBombsWillingnessPermitWorld War IiWorld War ICold WarAssuredCiviliansIsraeliAir ForceNuclear BombMutually Assured Destruction Author:Alan Dershowitz
“It has been said that the United States was deceived into entering and expanding the Vietnam War by its own overoptimistic propaganda. The record suggests, however, that the policy-makers stayed in Vietnam not so much because of overly optimistic hopes of winning ... as because of overly pessimistic assessments of the consequences of losing.” Has BeensSaidWarStatesWinningUnitedUnited StatesRecordsPolicyLosingConsequenceOptimisticPropagandaMakersVietnamEnteringExpandingDeceivedVietnam WarPessimisticAssessmentPolicy Makers Book:The real war: the classic reporting on the Vietnam War with a new essay Source: The real war: the classic reporting on the Vietnam War with a new essay
“Donald Trump may be running for president. He said he is sick and tired of the rest of the world laughing at the United States. Well, President Trump will certainly put an end to that.” WorldWellsMaySaidEndsStatesRunningPresidentUnitedUnited StatesLaughingTrumpSickTired Author:David Letterman
“I know quite a few farmers all over the United States who have tried this and have said the opposite, that they have to use more herbicides, not less. The same holds true with BT.” KnowsSaidStatesUseUnitedUnited StatesEconomyOppositesFarmersHerbicides Author:Jeremy Rifkin
“It might be said that religious freedom in the American sense, incorporating the separation of church and state, has been the pivotal concept of the national development of the United States of America.” Has BeensSaidStatesMightAmericaChurchReligiousUnitedUnited StatesAtheismDevelopmentConceptsPositive AtheismSeparationUnited States Of AmericaChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateReligious FreedomPivotalIncorporating Author:Joseph Leon Blau
“Because the bill in reserving a certain parcel of land in the United States for the use of said Baptist Church comprises a principle and a precedent for the appropriation of funds of the United States for the use and support of religious societies, contrary to the article of the Constitution which declares that "Congress shall make no law respecting a religious establishment."” SaidStatesUseLawCertainChurchReligiousUnitedPrinciplesUnited StatesSupportAtheismLandConstitutionBillsCongressPositive AtheismContraryFundArticlesEstablishmentBaptistsPrecedentAppropriationParcel Book:The Writings of James Madison: 1808-1819 Source: The Writings of James Madison: 1808-1819
“I don't believe we need a good conservative judge, and I don't believe we need a good liberal judge. I subscribe to the Justice Potter Stewart standard. He was a justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. And he said the mark of a good judge, good justice, is that when you're reading their decision, their opinion, you can't tell if it's written by a man or woman, a liberal or a conservative, a Muslim, a Jew or a Christian. You just know you're reading a good judicial decision.” IfsKnowsMenNeedsBelieveSaidStatesChristianReadingJusticeDecisionUnitedOpinionUnited StatesWrittenJudgingStandardsMarkCourtDon't BelieveConservativeJewSupremeSupreme CourtPottersJudicialGood Judges Author:John F. Kerry
“Perhaps the best thing which can be said about newspapers in the United States is that they are in chronic disagreement with each other. That is what is meant by a free press.” SaidStatesUnitedUnited StatesPressesNewspapersBest ThingsDisagreementFree Press Author:Jim Bishop