“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
“It's sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help.” WorldWellsStatesHelpingHappensUnitedKnownUnited StatesCatastropheWell Known Author:Morgan Freeman
“Americans are brought up to believe they can grow up to be the president of the United States. Brits are told, It won't happen to you.” BelieveStatesHappensGrowsPresidentUnitedUnited StatesGrowing UpBrits Author:Ricky Gervais
“It would convert the Treasury of the United States into a manufactory of paper money. It makes the House of Representatives and the Senate, or the caucus of the party which happens to be in the majority, the absolute dictator of the financial and business affairs of this country. This scheme surpasses all the centralism and all the Caesarism that were ever charged upon the Republican party in the wildest days of the war or in the events growing out of the war.” WarCountryStatesHappensHouseUnitedPartyUnited StatesGrowingEventsRepublicanPaperAbsolutesMajorityAffairFinancialSenateRepresentativesDictatorSchemesRepublican PartyTreasuryHouse Of RepresentativesCaucusPaper Money Author:James A. Garfield
“This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.” IfsThinkingBelieveHappensUnited StatesTroubleTerribleDisaster Book:The Bean Trees: A Novel Source: The Bean Trees: A Novel
“What frightens me about America today is that in the large majority there is no active sense of the value of the individual: few citizens feel that they are the Republic, responsible for what happens. And when the individual in a democracy ceases to feel his importance, then there is grave danger that he will give over his freedom, if not to a Fascist State, then to the advertising men or Publicity Agents or to the newspaper he happens to read.” IfsMenGivingFeelsStatesHappensTodayAmericaValuesIndividualUnited StatesDemocracyDangerCitizensImportanceResponsibleMajorityActiveNewspapersGravesCeaseAdvertisingAgentsRepublicPublicityFascistsAmerica Today Author:May Sarton
“In the United States 95% of the people who win elections have the most money. That's it. So, money is a big part of elections. But that happens all the time.” PeopleStatesBigsHappensWinningUnitedUnited StatesElection Author:George Clooney
“In the past when a country became as powerful as the United States, other countries would band together to clip its wings. But that isn't happening now and I don't think it's not going to happen, because other countries are not threatened by us, and they secretly appreciate the services that we provide, even if they don't usually say so.” IfsThinkingCountryStatesHappensTogetherPastUnitedPowerfulUnited StatesBandHappeningsAppreciateWingsOther CountriesThreatenedClip Author:Michael Mandelbaum
“One cannot always be sure of the truth of what one hears if he happens to be President of the United States.” IfsStatesHappensPresidentUnitedUnited States Author:William Howard Taft
“What needs to happen is more of a global understanding, and I believe the United States can work as a global partner and not be the hegemon.” NeedsBelieveStatesHappensI BelieveUnderstandingUnitedUnited StatesPartners Author:Oliver Stone
“There's a longstanding myth about the United States that is still very prevalent in Europe [despite recent developments]. Historically the "America" of this myth is an incredible human adventure and an experiment in political democracy. But at the same time, or so we're told, it's the land of extremes where the worst can happen.” HumansStillsStatesHappensAmericaPoliticalUnitedUnited StatesDemocracyLandWorstAdventureDevelopmentEuropeIncrediblesExtremesMythExperimentsDespite Author:Bruno Dumont
“I came to The United States to see what would happen in 2000 after working for 20 years in Australia and asked my agent to look out for the nasty roles because I'd become famous for playing the nicest man in Australia. So I wanted to play bad guys. But I've been doing that now for 13 years so when I was offered the chance to do some comedy, I grabbed it.” MenYearsLooksStatesPlayHappensWantedGuyChanceUnitedRolesUnited StatesComedyAgentsAustraliaNastyBad Guys Author:Alan Dale
“We cannot have a society in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States. If somebody is able to intimidate folks out of releasing a satirical movie, imagine what's going to happen when they see a documentary they don't like or news reports they don't like."” IfsStatesHappensAbleUnitedUnited StatesImagineNewsFolksReportsCensorshipDictatorDocumentariesIntimidatingImposingSatirical Author:Barack Obama
“I'm pretty optimistic that in the future these kind of films will also be part of the main categories, perhaps not in a foreign language, but certainly more socially and politically engaged films, or films that will happen where the story takes place outside the United States.” KindStatesStoriesHappensFilmLanguageUnitedUnited StatesOptimisticEngagedCategoriesForeign Language Author:Philippe Falardeau
“I've seen the end of the universe, and it happens to be in the United States and, oddly enough, it's in Houston, Texas. I know - I was shocked, too. Imagine my surprise when I left a comedy club one day and walked to the end of the block, and there on one corner was a Starbucks, and across the street from that Starbucks, in the exact same building as that Starbucks, there was - a Starbucks. I looked back and forth, thinking the sun was playing tricks with my eyes. That there was a Starbucks across from a Starbucks - and that, my friends, is the end of the universe.” ThinkingKnowsEndsStatesEnoughHappensEyeUniverseLeftUnitedUnited StatesSunComedyImagineStreetsBuildingOne DayMy FriendsSurpriseClubsCornersTricksBlockTexasShockedBack And ForthStarbucksHoustonComedy Clubs Author:Lewis Black