#united

So Europe needs to be competitive and we also need to be competitive if we wish to remain an interesting economic partner for the United States. This has to be done on the basis of strength, of competitiveness. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#basis #competitive #competitiveness #done #economic

The White House looked into a plan that would allow illegal immigrants to stay in the United States. The plan called for a million Mexicans to marry a million of our ugliest citizens. ↗

— Dennis Miller

#called #citizens #house #illegal #illegal immigrants

An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million. ↗

— Gary Miller

#double #estimated #illegal #illegal immigrants #immigrant

California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated number of illegal alien residents in California was about 2.2 million, or nearly 32 percent of the total number of illegal immigrants in the United States. ↗

— Gary Miller

#alien #borders #california #estimated #highest

The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated. ↗

— Gary Miller

#consumers #demonstrated #distributed #fragile #gasoline

I was the United States Attorney for Maine for three years, and then was appointed a federal judge. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#attorney #federal #federal judge #i #judge

My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#immigrant #lebanon #mother #old #she

My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother died - we're not sure - either at or shortly after his birth, and he and all of his siblings were placed in orphanages in the Boston area. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#area #birth #boston #died #either

What is good about the United States is the sense that you can disagree with the government and not be seen as unpatriotic, although many in the government will try to make you seem unpatriotic. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#although #disagree #good #government #make

In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car. ↗

— John Moody

#appearance #boat #canal #car #made