“The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.” StatesUnitedPowerUnited StatesCenturyExerciseArroganceAgony Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966 Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966
“In the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrong doing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power.” MayStatesForceUnitedCasesPowerUnited StatesExercisePoliceWesternInternationalDoctrineImpotenceHemisphereAdherencePolice PowerMonroe Doctrine Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“The world is now unipolar and contains only one superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower. In this context, given our common values and the political, economic and security interests that we share with the United States, there is now no more important foreign policy interest for Canada than maintaining the ability to exercise effective influence in Washington so as to advance unique Canadian policy objectives.” WorldImportantStatesPoliticalValuesGivenInterestAbilityUnitedCommonUnited StatesShareInfluenceEconomicSecurityPolicyExerciseUniqueObjectivesCanadaForeign PolicyContinentsMaintainingSuperpower Author:Stephen Harper
“Our advertising partnership with Allegiant Air is a natural fit for us. Branding encompasses everything from good customer service to strategic advertising positioning and targeting. This in-air branding exercise will allow us to target a specific player demographic, while continuing to expand the presence of our brand throughout the continental United States.” StatesNaturalUnitedUnited StatesPlayerAirFitExerciseCustomersAdvertisingBrandsTargetPartnershipBrandingContinuingStrategicDemographicsContinentalGood Customer Service Author:Calvin Ayre
“I believe that for the small numbers of Jewish people in the United States, they exercise a tremendous amount of influence on the affairs of government.” PeopleBelieveStatesGovernmentI BelieveUnitedNumbersUnited StatesInfluenceAmountExerciseAffairSmall Numbers Author:Louis Farrakhan
“[On the United States:] A nation which does not appreciate that the simple elocution exercise 'Merry Mary married hairy Harry' contains not one but three vowel sounds.” DoeStatesThreeLanguageNationsSoundSimpleUnitedUnited StatesExerciseMarriedAppreciateMaryMerryVowelsElocution Author:Jessica Mitford
“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 United States need to put internet processes, policies, and procedures in place with real laws that forbid going beyond the borders of what's reasonable to ensure that the only time that we and other countries around the world exercise these authorities are when it is absolutely necessary.” WorldNeedsRealCountryStatesLawProcessUnitedUnited StatesPolicyInternetExerciseAuthorityAround The WorldBordersReasonableOther CountriesOnly TimeProceduresPolicies And Procedures Author:Edward Snowden
“All that the Y.M.C.A.'s horse and rings really accomplished was to fill me with an ineradicable distaste, not only for Christian endeavor in all its forms, but also for every variety of calisthenics, so that I still begrudge the trifling exertion needed to climb in and out of a bathtub, and hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense. If I had my way no man guilty of golf would be eligible to any office of trust or profit under the United States, and all female athletes would be shipped to the white-slave corrals of the Argentine.” IfsMenWayPersonsStillsStatesWould BeChristianFormHateSportsWhiteUnitedCommonUnited StatesNeededExerciseOfficeFemaleHorseGolfSlaveAthleteProfitRingsLikesCommon SenseGuiltyVarietyMy WayAccomplishedClimbsEndeavorExertionTriflingBathtubsDistasteFemale AthleteCalisthenics Author:H. L. Mencken
“When you look at obesity in the United States, clearly it is not a bunch of stupid people. It has nothing to do with intelligence. Sometimes people who are dealing with issues of obesity and compulsive eating know more than I will ever know about nutrition, metabolism, and exercise, because they have studied it. But clearly the real problem, and therefore the real solution, is on another level of consciousness, and that is where the spiritual work comes in.” PeopleKnowsLooksRealSometimesStatesProblemSpiritualLevelsUnitedConsciousnessUnited StatesIssuesStupidExerciseEatingSolutionsBunchNutritionStupid PeopleObesityReal ProblemsMetabolismSpiritual Work Author:Marianne Williamson
“We believe in honesty, morality, and purity; but when they enact tyrannical laws, forbidding us the free exercise of our religion, we cannot submit. God is greater than the United States, and when the Government conflicts with heaven, we will be ranged under the banner of heaven and against the Government...Polygamy is a divine institution. It has been banded down direct from God. The United States cannot abolish it. No nation on the earth can prevent it, nor all the nations of the earth combined...I defy the United States; I will obey God.” BelieveHas BeensStatesGovernmentEarthLawHeavenNationsUnitedUnited StatesGreaterHonestyDivineMoralityExerciseConflictDirectInstitutionsPuritySubmitAbolishBannerPolygamy Author:John Taylor
“The origin of society, then, is to be sought, not in any natural right which one man has to exercise authority over another, but in the united consent of those who associate.” MenNaturalUnitedExerciseAuthorityOne ManConsentAssociates Author:Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger
“I meet a number of people as a writer of fiction who say "Oh, I don't read much fiction," as if the history of the United States, just as an example, isn't an exercise in storytelling and myth-making.” PeopleIfsStatesUnitedNumbersFictionUnited StatesExampleExerciseMythStorytelling Author:Yann Martel