“How many pizzas are consumed each year in the United States? How many words have you spoken in your life? How many different peoples names appear in the New York Times each year? How many watermelons would fit inside the U.S. Capital building? What is the volume of all the human blood in the world?” WorldYearsHumansDifferentStatesNamesUnitedUnited StatesBloodNew YorkBuildingFitLogicCertaintyUncertaintyReasoningVolumeDifferent PeoplesConsumedPizzaNew York TimesOntology Author:John Allen Paulos
“I spoke bluntly about what I had seen in a little over a year as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. To the apparent surprise of many in the room, I observed publicly that insider trading appeared to be rampant.” YearsLittlesStatesUnitedRoomsUnited StatesNew YorkSurpriseSpokesSouthernTradingAttorneyInsidersInsider Trading Author:Preet Bharara
“New York is essentially national in interest, position, pursuits. No one thinks of the place as belonging to a particular state, but to the United States.” ThinkingStatesInterestUnitedUnited StatesNew YorkPositionParticularPursuitBelonging Author:James F. Cooper
“By any reasonable standard, Riverside Drive would be considered the best street in New York. Where else, after all, are there such views-not of a narrow river, as there is across town, but of one of the noblest rivers in the United States.” StatesWould BeUnitedViewsUnited StatesStreetsNew YorkStandardsRiversTownsReasonableRiverside Author:Paul Goldberger
“Today's announcement projects a picture of profound weakness in U.S. diplomacy. It should not have been a heavy lift for our diplomats in New York and in foreign capitals to recruit the necessary 96 affirmative votes to seat the United States in the new council.” ShouldHas BeensStatesTodayUnitedUnited StatesNew YorkProjectsWeaknessVoteProfoundHeavyLiftsSeatsDiplomacyCouncilDiplomatsAffirmativeAnnouncementsRecruit Author:Tom Lantos
“Unfortunately there are still people in other areas who regard New York City not as part of the United States, but as a sort of excrescence fastened to our Eastern shore and peopled by the less venturesome waves of foreigners who failed to go West to the genuine American frontier.” PeopleStillsStatesUnitedCitiesUnited StatesNew YorkAreasRegardWestWaveGenuineShoreNew York CityEasternFrontiersForeigners Book:Working for the People: Promise and Performance in Public Service Source: Working for the People: Promise and Performance in Public Service
“When I was 11, I moved to the United States with my two brothers and my mom. We moved to northern New York, up near the Canadian border, from Argentina, and there was nobody there that spoke Spanish, and because there was no internet at the time, not even cable TV yet, I lost the connection with my childhood friends and the culture I had been brought up with for my first decade completely.” FirstsTwoStatesCultureLostUnitedUnited StatesChildhoodNew YorkBrotherTvsMomInternetConnectionsMovedMy MomDecadesBordersSpokesCablesArgentinaTwo BrothersCable TvChildhood Friend Author:Viggo Mortensen
“Why the hell not run a race across the United States? A balls-out, shoot-the-moon, f***-the-establishment rumble from New York to Los Angeles to prove what we had been harping about for years, for example, that good drivers in good automobiles could employ the American Interstate system the same way the Germans were using their Autobahns? Yes, make high-speed travel by car a reality! Truth and justice affirmed by an overtly illegal act.” WayYearsStatesRealityRunningJusticeUnitedRaceUnited StatesHellCarNew YorkExampleMoonProveBallsSpeedIllegalLos AngelesDriversEstablishmentAutomobileHigh SpeedRumbleTruth And JusticeInterstate Author:Brock Yates
“All this plan does is make everybody a capitalist. I know that the New York Stock Exchange says there are 25 million shareholders in the United States, but let me tell you something: about 15 million of those people could save their dividends for 10 years and maybe buy a new suit. That's not what I call capitalism.” PeopleKnowsYearsDoeStatesWisdomPoliticsUnitedMillionsUnited StatesEconomyPlansNew YorkCapitalismLet MeSuitsLiberalismCapitalistDividendsShareholdersStock ExchangeNew York StockNew York Stock Exchange Author:Louis O. Kelso
“Osama bin laden organized an attack that was carried out against the United States, New York, Pentagon, and the other aircraft, with 19 attackers, 19 guys with box cutters. An attack that's probably cost almost nothing.” StatesGuyUnitedUnited StatesNew YorkCostBoxesOrganizedBin LadenOsama Bin LadenAircraftPentagonCutters Author:Richard Engel
“I visited New York in '63, intending to move there, but I noticed that what I valued about jazz was being discarded. I ran into `out-to-lunch' free jazz, and the notion that groove was old-fashioned. All around the United States, I could see jazz becoming linear, a horn-player's world. It made me realize that we were not jazz musicians; we were territory musicians in love with all forms of African-American music. All of the musicians I loved were territory musicians, deeply into blues and gospel as well as jazz.” WorldWellsMadeStatesMovingFormRealizingUnitedUnited StatesPlayerNew YorkBecomingMusicianJazzNotionAfrican AmericanRanTerritoryLunchOld FashionedHornsJazz MusicLinearDiscardedGrooveJazz MusicianAmerican MusicAfrican American MusicFree Jazz Author:Joe Sample
“The more boring a newspaper is, the more it is respected. The most respected newspaper in the United States is The New York Times, which has thousands of reporters constantly producing enormous front-page stories about bauxite...The [New York] Post would write about bauxite only if famous celebrites were arrested for snorting it in an exclusive Manhattan nightclub.” IfsWritingStatesStoriesUnitedUnited StatesMediaFrontsNew YorkPagesBoringNewspapersEnormousPostsReportersExclusiveArrestedManhattanNew York TimesNightclubs Author:Dave Barry
“Open the books ... and you will be staggered to see how much American money has been taken from the United States Treasury for the benefit of Russia. Find out what business has been transacted for the State Bank of Soviet Russia, by its correspondent, the Chase Bank of New York [owned by the Rockefellers].” Has BeensBookStatesUnitedUnited StatesTakenNew YorkBenefitsRussiaCommunismSovietBankingTreasurySoviet Russia Author:Louis Thomas McFadden
“If they attack, we shall fight to the end. If the rockets had remained, we would have used them all and directed them against the very heart of the United States, including New York, in our defense against aggression. But we haven't got them, so we shall fight with what we've got.” IfsHeartEndsStatesUsedFightingUnitedUnited StatesHavensNew YorkIncludingDefenseAggressionRockets Author:Che Guevara
“Although I have to leave you as mayor soon, I resume the much more honorable title of citizen of New York, and citizen of the United States.” StatesUnitedUnited StatesNew YorkCitizensTitlesHonorableMayorsResumes Author:Rudy Giuliani
“I can live in Paris for four months or London or, you know, Barcelona. These are places that are like New York. But I don't think I could live in many places. When I had to make a film in the United States I picked San Francisco because to me it's one of the great cities of America.” ThinkingKnowsI CanStatesAmericaFilmUnitedCitiesUnited StatesFourNew YorkMonthsLondonParisSan FranciscoBarcelonaGreat Cities Author:Woody Allen
“What's good for the United States is good for the New York Stock Exchange. But what's good for the New York Stock Exchange might not be good for the United States.” StatesMightUnitedUnited StatesNew YorkBe GoodStock ExchangeNew York StockNew York Stock Exchange Author:William McChesney Martin