#state

America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy. ↗

— Brent Scowcroft

#democracy #experiment #freedom #human #human freedom

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#be prepared #crazy #enough #give #his

Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and PhD levels in these areas is declining. ↗

— Mark Kennedy

#asian #asian countries #bachelors #countries #declining

It's funny how all of this has worked out - I wasn't popular in high school, but now every drunken guy in the United States wants to be my pal. They all want to buy me a shot, and pretty soon I'm throwing up. ↗

— Jimmy Kimmel

#drunken #every #funny #guy #high

By 2010, Africa could be providing the United States with as many oil imports as the Middle East. ↗

— Anthony Lake

#could #east #imports #many #middle

There is nothing here that's broken that can't be fixed, but it won't happen on its own. It's going to require a huge lift by the entire country of the United States of America and people on the ground taking personal responsibility for themselves. You cannot take it as a fait accompli that the city's going to come back. ↗

— Mitch Landrieu

#back #broken #cannot #city #come

Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell. ↗

— Irving Layton

#canadians #consider #dante #down #hell

I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States. ↗

— Barbara Lee

#acts #against #am #convinced #further

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

#consider #even #family #french #i

Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq. ↗

— Carl Levin

#against #before #clearly #concern #concerning