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The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments is the rule.

Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.

United States is a great Country and has its effective role on the international arena, so we have to boost our relations with it, in order to achieve peace and stability in our region and the world.

A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.

He's the president of the United States. He's got to work 14 to 16 hours a day, run foreign and domestic policy. If he's got time for mistresses after all that, what the hell difference does it make?

The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.

By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.

The blood and sweat shed by United States and United Nations troops proved to be the prime mover behind the realisation of freedom throughout the post-war period.

Tennis is seen all around the world; if I am home or anywhere in the country, United States, people will stare.

Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.

I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?

We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States.

That is what has happened to the United States in the international economic scene. We have deteriorated into a debtor status so that we are now dependent upon the kindness of strangers. That is not where the world's leading power should find itself.

Know the official post office abbreviations for all 50 states without having to consult a list.

If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift'; they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains'; they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.'

You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out.

Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound or sensible policy.

Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America.

What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs.

No one should be surprised when Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda detonate a weapon of mass destruction in the United States. I don't believe in inevitability. But I think it's pretty close to being inevitable.