Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of
consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice ever produced by governments.
Bella Abzug
Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.
Dean Acheson
Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.
Dean Acheson
Because the Internet is so new, we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a type of
publishing or broadcasting, because that's what we're used to. So people complain that there's a lot of rubbish
online, or that it's dominated by Americans, or that you can't necessarily trust what you read on the Web.
Douglas Adams
Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy; Canada is like an intelligent, 35-year-old
woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. It comes right up to you and laughs very hard in your face in a highly threatening and engaging manner.
Douglas Adams
I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas... cultures... and systems of
thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word freedom
means than I see much evidence of in America.
Douglas Adams
To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do
what you want. I think that, in Europe, we're probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.
Douglas Adams
The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a
conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.
Franklin P. Adams
There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.
Franklin P. Adams
We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything
to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.
Franklin P. Adams
What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
Franklin P. Adams
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
Henry Adams
The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.
Henry Adams
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation,
not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
John Adams
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in
providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
John Adams
My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
John Adams
The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals.
John Adams
The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate,
I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.
John Adams
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.
John Adams
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
John Quincy Adams
The Declaration of Independence pronounced the irrevocable decree of political separation, between the
United States and their people on the one part, and the British king, government, and nation on the other.
John Quincy Adams
The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one
indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.
John Quincy Adams
In Iran, we don't have homosexuals, like in your country.
Responding to a question about the treatment of gays and lesbians in Iran
during a visit to Columbia University in New York City on September 24, 2007.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.
Old Proverb
Anonymous
I'll love you, dear, I'll love you
Till China and Africa meet
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street,
I'll love you till the ocean
Is folded and hung up to dry
And the seven stars go squawking
Like geese about the sky.
W. H. Auden
You only have to survive in England and all is forgiven you ... if you can eat a boiled egg at ninety in England they think you deserve a Nobel Prize.
Alan Bennett
The rough broad difference between the American and the European business man is that the latter is anxious to leave his work, while the former is anxious to get to it.
Arnold Bennett
And did those feet in ancient time walk upon England's mountains green?
William Blake
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England.
Rupert Brooke
Oh, to be in England now that April's there.
Robert Browning
Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference.
William S. Burroughs
Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundations of America.
George W. Bush
These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of America's resolve.
George W. Bush
Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds,
and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.
Rachel Carson
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense ... human rights invented America.
Jimmy Carter
I felt so out of place at the Miss India pageant. I had just come back from America, and I was told I needed to lose my American accent
and learn the Queen's English, so I had to enunciate my vowels and speak well and eloquently. Giving up a New York accent is pretty hard.
Priyanka Chopra
Great nations need organizing principles, and Don't do stupid stuff
is not an organizing principle.
Atlantic Online interview, August 10, 2014.
Hillary Clinton
I think there's a terrific merit in having no sense of humour, no sense of irony, practically no sense of anything at all. If you're born with these so-called
defects you have a very good chance of getting to the top. That's what's enabled her [Mrs.
Thatcher]to turn Britain into a cross between Singapore and Telford.
Peter Cook
Nothing could be more calamitous than for patriotism to become the established religion of this country.
The Religion of Patriotism
Max Eastman
Max Eastman
The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
Edward VIII
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since
for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless
brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to
shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Albert Einstein
I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too!
Elizabeth I
Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I grew up castrating hogs on an Iowa farm, so when I come to Washington, I'll know how to cut pork.
Iowa Senatorial candidate Joni Ernst, campaign advertisement quoted in National Journal, March 25, 2014.
Joni Ernst
England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.
John Florio
If we want to preserve the foundation of our democracy, it's vital that we find common ground that allows us to work for the
greater good of this nation. This does not mean giving up our values. This does not mean swallowing a bitter compromise.
Tulsi Gabbard
Whosoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.... And when you realize the entire system is very
easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.
James Garfield
[The] city of New York and the United States of America is much stronger than any group of barbaric terrorists, that
our democracy, that our rule of law, that our strength and our willingness to defend ourselves will ultimately prevail.
Rudy Giuliani
That rugged individualism that is the personification of our American sense of freedom, and which we celebrate on the
Fourth of July and in our popular myths and heroes, also contributes to the breakdown of the social fabric that has always
provided a secure context for our freedoms. Freedom from
has not yet yielded to an appropriate freedom for.
Peter J. Gomes
Columbus didn't have a business plan when he discovered America.
Andrew Grove
Globalization means we have to re-examine some of our ideas, and look at ideas from other countries,
from other cultures, and open ourselves to them. And that's not comfortable for the average person.
Herbie Hancock
The stately homes of England!
How beautiful they stand.
Felicia Hemans
The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scots as a joke, but the Scots haven't seen the joke yet.
Oliver Herford
Being in jail is by far the hardest thing I have ever done. During the past several days, I have had a lot of time to think
and I believe that I am learning and growing from this experience ... I would hope going forward that the public and the media
will focus on more important things like the men and women serving our country in Iraq and other places around the world.
Paris Hilton
The Japanese are masters at making you peel the onion. You get through one layer and you are looking at another one just like it.
Lee Iacocca
I am thirty, the same as our People's Republic. For a republic thirty is still young. But a girl of thirty is virtually on the shelf.
Zhang Jie
I just find it absolutely bizarre that we are being lectured by the Americans about giving up our sovereignty and giving up control when
the Americans won't even sign up to the international convention on the law of the seas, let alone the International Criminal Court.
Boris Johnson
Let every Nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet
any hardship, support any friend or oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and success of liberty.
Spoken at inaugural address and inscribed on his memorial.
John F. Kennedy
Being British is a faith. I will never lose it.
Ian MacGregor
I don't like unnecessary class distinctions. The Americans waste no time on them. They don't care who your father was. If you make
it to the top and it comes out that your father made moonshine in Tennessee they admire you even more. Now, I like that system.
Ian MacGregor
I never thought the day would come when I wished I had some of my scruffy, sometimes ill-disciplined, sometimes
loud-mouthed American police by my side in this country, and some of the curious ways of the law to back them up.
Ian MacGregor
Management is a calling and people ought to be dedicated to it. British managers have far too much security.
A poor manager should be dumped. What's at stake is the happiness of society, not the comfort of managers.
Ian MacGregor
I hate wearin' sunglasses, to be honest with you. You don't need sunglasses in Ireland.
Tristan MacManus
In England, Justice is open to all, like the Ritz hotel.
James Mathew
Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not the battlefields of Vietnam.
Marshall McLuhan
Continental people have a sex life; the English have hot-water bottles.
George Mikes
When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for a job, I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
Akio Morita
It has to be admitted that we English have sex on the brain, which is a very unsatisfactory place to have it.
Malcolm Muggeridge
I was sure we would never see the adoption of the Euro. Countries giving up their currencies for a common tender was, it seemed to me, completely out
of tune with currency being a carrier of people's cultural identity, celebrating national heroes and events, as it had been for hundreds of years.
John Naisbitt
We must face up to a difficult paradox: The U.S. can maintain a leading position in science only by giving up its desire to be number one.
Priyamvada Natarajan
The most dangerous man in America.
Referring to Timothy Leary.
Richard Nixon
You're telling me that the separation of church and state is found in the First Amendment?
Delaware senatorial debate on October 19, 2010.
Christine O'Donnell
In Japan, organizations and people in the organization are synonymous.
Kenichi Ohmae
I would call attention to the parallels of fascist Nazi (Germany's) war on its 'one percent,' namely its Jews, to the
progressive war on the American one percent, namely the 'rich.' ... I perceive a rising tide of hatred of the successful one percent.
Letter to the editor, Wall Street Journal, January 24, 2014.
Tom Perkins
Nations do not mistrust each other because they are armed; they are armed because they mistrust each other.
Ronald Reagan
The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
They say there's no second act in American lives. There's something there worth exploring. Giving up an idea of yourself, examining
your failure, and seeing if that failure was the system's or yours. What does it mean to not turn out to be the person you want to be?
Scott Rudin
England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humors.
George Santayana
American people ... will not fail to recognize that our dignity, our free institutions and the peace
and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword
of true patriotism: Our country - when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right.
Carl Schurz
Quality control was treated as a fad here, but it's been part of the Japanese business philosophy for decades. That's why they laugh at us.
Peter Senge
This England never did, nor never shall,
Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.
King John
William Shakespeare
Freedom of the press in Britain means freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertisers don't object to.
Hannen Swaffer
My glasses are from Cutler & Gross. They're not prescription: I just love wearing them. I used to wear Ray-Ban a
lot and then I realised that a lot of the things I've started going for are a little bit more refined. I liked the fact
that I was supporting a British brand, somebody I could have a relationship with and people that I could talk to.
Tinie Tempah
I just fired the head of the FBI. He was crazy, a real nut job. I faced great pressure because of Russia. That's taken off.
As reported by The New York Times, explaining the firing of James Comey to visiting Russian officials, May 10, 2017.
Donald Trump
My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know
what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly.
Pancho Villa
Do not trust the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.
Virgil
An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by
Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.
Edith Wharton
England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.
Oscar Wilde
Mrs. Allonby: They say, Lady Hunstanton, that when good Americans die they go to Paris.
Lady Hunstanton: Indeed? And when bad Americans die, where do they go to?
Lord Illingworth: Oh, they go to America.
Oscar Wilde
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
Oscar Wilde
You cannot hope to bribe or twist (thank God!) the British journalist. But, seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to.
Humbert Wolfe
Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.
Virginia Woolf
Country, Nation, and State
