#united states

The main American naval forces were shifted to the Pacific region and an American admiral made a strong declaration to the effect that if war were to break out between Japan and the United States, the Japanese navy could be sunk in a matter of weeks. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#american #between #break #could #declaration

The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that. ↗

— Ted Turner

#got #i #i want you #know #people

It was the biggest inflation and the most sustained inflation that the United States had ever had. ↗

— Paul A. Volcker

#ever #had #inflation #most #states

And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school. ↗

— James T. Walsh

#high #high school #kids #percent #school

I will seek the presidency with nothing to fall back on but the judgment of the people of the United States, and nowhere to go but the White House or home. ↗

— Bob Dole

#fall #go #home #house #i

Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#better #child #committed #countries #demand

The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#believe #disarmament #further #important #important step

Well, our position, and our chairman has talked about this extensively, is that we had a lot of intelligence prior to 9/11. We knew that two al Qaeda operatives who ultimately participated in the 9/11 disaster were in the United States. We didn't find them. ↗

— Richard Ben-Veniste

#al #chairman #disaster #extensively #find

Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America. ↗

— Eliot Engel

#alone #america #any #corner #discrimination

We stand with the people of Taiwan and their democratic ways, and I am proud to be a part of reaffirming the unwavering commitment to the Taiwan Relations Act by the United States Congress. ↗

— Eliot Engel

#am #commitment #congress #democratic #i