We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.
The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
I'm not so sure the role of the United States is going around the world saying this is the way its gotta be.
I am unusual for a Frenchman - I have absolutely nothing against the United States.
Right now, the Anglo people are desperately trying to hold on to the United States, like they tried to hold on to Africa
I would not look to the United States Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012.
One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.
What really swings is the music of the United States, Cuba, the Caribbean and vicinity, and, of course, Brazil. The rest is all waltzes.
The truth is the Federal Reserve Board has usurped the Government of the United States. It controls everything here and it controls all our foreign relations. It makes and breaks government at will.
There's no doubt that it's still a dangerous place, Afghanistan. The fortunate thing is that the United States was helping to provide security for Chairman Karzai. And it shows that the United States is committed to that regime.
The bottom feeders of the entertainment industry were never invited to presidential inaugurations. The bottom feeders of the entertainment were never used as fundraisers for presidents of the United States. They were ignored. There was always a line. They were always there, and they were always who they were, and they always did what they did. The bottom feeders have now become the standard. That's what's different.
Nothing can be more notorious than the calumnies and invectives with which the wisest measures and most virtuous characters of The United States have been pursued and traduced [By American Newspapers]
In Czechoslovakia there is no such thing as freedom of the press. In the United States there is no such thing as freedom from the press.
The United States investigates everything - usually after it's dead.
I came to the United States because I valued living as a free person, one who is able to advocate in a democratic society. Unfortunately, the U. S. has been turning into a less free society, a police and surveillance state, especially after 911.
State visits are often an opportunity for the United States to reaffirm our ties and friendship with our closest partners around the world.
Given lesser opportunities, Kissinger would have done very well as a talk show host. Fortunately for him, although not so fortunately for the United States, he found his patron in Nelson Rockefeller instead of William Paley.
When more Americans prefer freebies to freedom, these great United States will become a fertile ground for tyranny.
The United States ranks 14th in the world in education. Even if we subtract Sarah Palin's test scores, it only bumps us to third. Damn you, Finland!
The heyday perhaps of American public infrastructure is the Sputnik moment of the 1950s, the [Dwaight] Eisenhower administration, for instance, which rolls out the modern interstate system. The highway system of the United States is built during this period.