#united states

And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican. ↗

— Alma Guillermoprieto

#border #carpentry #chances #course #cross

Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#aid #american #american policy #failure #foreign

Well, you know, they were - they were a terrorist group. They - when I was kidnapped they published all of their statements about their war that they declared on the United States. ↗

— Patty Hearst

#declared #group #i #kidnapped #know

The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#armies #between #british #british empire #building

People in the United Kingdom and outside the United States share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself. ↗

— Bill Hicks

#itself #kingdom #outside #people #share

The United States is a beautiful place, you know? ↗

— Billy Higgins

#beautiful place #know #place #states #united

Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure. ↗

— James Hillman

#admit #afraid #already #american #backward

Yes, Jean Monnet was the father of the concept of a United States of Europe and his efforts more than those of any other single man helped change the thinking of European leaders. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#change #concept #efforts #europe #european

A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

#days #four #hundred #journey #made

So maybe there are three parts in my life - earlier background living in exile in Xinjiang in a very political circumstance, then later the United States from 24 to 36 years old. I was quite equipped with liberal thinking. Then the Internet. If there is no Internet, of course, I cannot really exercise my opinion or my ideas. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#cannot #circumstance #course #earlier #equipped