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"Remember, the U.S. is a powerful state, it's not like Libya. If Libya wants to carry out terrorist acts, they hire Carlos the Jackal or something. The United States hires terrorist states."
"I'm really excited about the prospect of a woman president of the United States."
"Let us remember there is not a poor person in the United States who was not made poor by his own shortcomings."
"I'll say nothing against him. At one time the whites in the United States called him a racialist, and extremist, and a Communist. Then the Black Muslims came along and the whites thanked the Lord for Martin Luther King."
"One thing I will not compromise over is whether or not Congress should pay the tab for a bill they've already racked up. If Congress refuses to give the United States the ability to pay its bills on time, the consequences for the entire global economy could be catastrophic."
"The United States that has been involved first in the Gulf War and then in the tremendously damaging sanctions against Iraqi civilians. The United States that is the supporter of Israel against the Palestinians."
"The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet."
"You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses."
"We are America. We are the coffin fillers. We are the grocers of death. We pack them in crates like cauliflowers."
"I have never said that people “should” engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy."
"It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United States."
"If there is going to be a Big Brother in the United States, it is going to be us. The FBI."
"The death penalty is used in such a blatantly racist way in the United States. There is no way that can be defended under any kind of definition of justice by anybody."
"I would rather be known as an advocate of equal suffrage than to speak every night on the best-paying platforms in the United States and ignore it."
"No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States."
"Britain and the United States have an enduring and special relationship based on the values of freedom, democracy and enterprise."
"Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not a priori a crime."
"There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States."
"If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow."