#states

My men and I have decided that our boss, the president of the United States, is as tough as woodpecker lips. ↗

— Charles A. Beckwith

#decided #i #lips #men #our

I am not one of those who believes—as Obama is said to believe—that a solution to the Palestinian statehood question would bring an end to Muslim resentment against the United States. (Incidentally, if he really does believe this, his lethargy and impotence in the face of Netanyahu's consistent double-dealing is even more culpable.) The Islamist fanatics have their own agenda, and, as in the case of Hamas and its Iranian backers, they have already demonstrated that nothing but the destruction of Israel and the removal of American influence from the region will possibly satisfy them. No, it is more the case that justice—and a homeland for the Palestinians—is a good and necessary cause in its own right. It is also a special legal and moral responsibility of the United States, which has several times declared a dual-statehood outcome to be its objective. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#barack-obama #benjamin-netanyahu #foreign-policy #hamas #iran

The fact that, in the United States, there are people serving ten-year prison terms for growing marijuana plants in their backyards while Wall Street racketeers, who have defrauded millions of people and destroyed the global economy, walk free is a kind of bizarre hypocrisy that boggles my mind. ↗

— Mark Haskell Smith

#government #hypocrisy #politics #politics-of-the-united-states #truth

Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states. ↗

— Judy Biggert

#founding #founding fathers #issue #left #marriage

Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States. ↗

— John Bolton

#everybody #gets #interests #national #national interests

These people hate the United States, not for what we do, but for who we are and what we are. ↗

— Paul Bremer

#people #states #these #united #united states

And instead of getting a pepper-and-salt effect, we find very clear and sharp divisions between the dialects of the United States, which are getting more different from each other as time goes on. ↗

— William Labov

#clear #dialects #different #divisions #each

But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there. ↗

— William Labov

#countries #covered #eastern #european #european countries

When you look at the world, everyone in the world who cares about his or her family wants to have a major portion of their assets in the United States because we are the growth country and the freedom loving country. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

#assets #because #cares #country #everyone

You know, without China there is no Wal-Mart and without Wal-Mart there is no middle class and lower class prosperity in the United States. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

#class #know #lower #lower class #middle