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• Have you ever watched someone become American? Last week, at a national citizenship conference I organize, thirty immigrants from 17 countries swore an oath and became citizens of the United States. It was a stirring experience for the hundreds of people in the room.

  Eric Liu

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Citizenship, Conference, United States

• To be sure, the United States has profound problems, not least our faltering educational and physical infrastructure.

  Eric Liu

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in United States, Problems, Infrastructure

• Here’s a proposal, offered only partly in jest: no resident of the United States, whether born here or abroad, should get to be a citizen until age 18, at which time each such resident has to take a test.

  Eric Liu

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Proposals, United States, Citizens

• I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of the State Department.

  Erik Larson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in United States, State, Department

• I foresee the Chinese ruling the world. What are you going to do to stop it? No president of the United States will ever have enough power to stop the Chinese when they want to take over the world.

  Evel Knievel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, United States, Chinese, President

• I don’t mind being a permanent nightmare for the United States.

  Evo Morales

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nightmare, United States

• There are reasons for believing that the English increase will far surpass others, and that the diffusion of the United States will ultimately produce the general population of America.

  Ezra Stiles

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Population, Believing, United States

• The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – indoctrination, we might say – exercised through the mass media.

  Avram Noam Chomsky

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in United States, Control

• The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

  Walt Whitman

  Topics in Genius

  Tags in United States, Legislatures, Ambassador, People, Common

• The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in United, United States, Continuous, Displaying, Aid, Weapon, Struggle

• The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

  Colin Luther Powell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in United States, Security, Will

• We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.

  Warren Buffett

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in United States, Forward

• I saw how different life was on different sides of the same city. I saw the fear in the eyes of people who were not free. I saw the gratitude of people toward the United States for all that we had done. I felt goosebumps as I got off a military train and heard the Army band strike up “Stars and Stripes Forever.”

  John Kerry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Gratitude, United States

• There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Topics in America, Children

  Tags in United States, Providence

• The past several months I have been able to meet with people across this country. One thing is clear: America craves for real solutions to the problems we face. That’s why I’m running for President of the United States.

  Herman Cain

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in United, United States, Running, Face

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

  Ted Turner

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in United States, World, People

• If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it..

  Woodrow Wilson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in United States, Going

• If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don’t ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

  Nelson Mandela

  Tags in Observers, United States

• There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Tags in Blessed, United States

• The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers’ document: it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Topics in Age, Funny

  Tags in Constitution, United States