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"There are nations that resist, voices that attempt to diminish the urgency or dismiss the science, or declare, either in word or indifference, that this is not our problem to solve. Well, let me tell you, it is our problem to solve... To the reticent nations, including the United States, I say this: There is such a thing as a global conscience."
"WikiLeaks presents a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States."
"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."
"This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it."
"I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union."
"No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, someone else has solved them."
"Pakistan's being an ally and helping the United States, we ought to show Pakistan that we are appreciative for the help that's been extended."
"And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States."
"While envisaging the destruction of imperialism, it is necessary to identify its head, which is no other than the United States of America."
"How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?"
"Chomsky proceeds on the almost unthinkably subversive assumption that the United States should be judged by the same standards that it preaches (often at gunpoint) to other nations he is nearly the only person now writing who assumes a single standard of international morality not for rhetorical effect, but as a matter of habitual, practically instinctual conviction."
"The Mormons had a divine revelation in favour of polygamy, but under pressure from the United States Government they discovered that the revelation was not binding."
"U.K. companies are in very international and very competitive markets. If you look at PC penetration in the U.K., it is very similar to the United States market."
"The United States has a huge budget deficit so taxes are going to have to go up and I certainly agree they should go up more on the rich than everyone else. That - that's just justice."
"People in the United Kingdom and outside the United States share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself."
"I think my exact comment was that if Bush won it would be a good time to leave the United States. I'm not necessarily going to leave the United States."
"A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One was the Civil War and the other one was the Depression."
"I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been."
"The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem."
"We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time."
