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The United States Government has placed me on no-fly lists. -- Edward Snowden
This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen. -- Paul Robeson
Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and separation of powers that form the foundation of the United States Government. -- Joe Baca
If you need to put your money in a safe and secure place and you want it to earn interest, Treasury bonds are safer than putting it in any bank as a deposit or putting it anywhere else, because they are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Government. -- Jim Cooper
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. -- Bertrand Russell
People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back. And given what the United States Government and Western powers have done to the third world, I feel that these countries should fight back. -- Yuri Kochiyama
Some people think the Federal Reserve Banks are United States Government Institutions. They are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers. -- Louis Thomas McFadden
United States Government needs to acknowledge and respect our sovereignty, treaties, traditional Native American values, and our human rights as a people, which under the law as written we deserve, and which should be protected. -- Leonard Peltier
I have come to Germany to learn at first hand the problems involved in the reconstruction of Germany and to discuss with our representatives the views of the United States Government as to some of the problems confronting us. -- James F. Byrnes
The advance planning and sense stimuli employed to capture a $10 million cigarette or soap market are nothing compared to the brainwashing and propaganda blitzes used to ensure control of the largest cash market in the world: the Executive Branch of the United States Government. -- Phyllis Schlafly
The Catholic Church must be the biggest corporation in the United States. We have a branch office in every neighborhood. Our assets and real estate holdings must exceed those of Standard Oil, A.T.&T., and U.S. Steel combined. And our roster of dues-paying members must be second only to the tax rolls of the United States Government. -- Avro Manhattan
The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country. -- Al Sharpton
The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995. -- Charles Bass
Apple is to the United States government what Clarence Thomas was to the civil rights coalition. How dare you get this big sidestepping us. -- Rush Limbaugh
The United States government approaches patient choice in medication as Singapore does free speech: its pronouncements sound reasonable and tolerant until you threaten its prerogatives. -- Virginia Postrel
The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution of the United States. -- Leonard Peltier
Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do. -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops. -- Jeremy Rifkin
The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United States government, and the Chinese government to aggressively pursue digital education. -- Michael J. Saylor
There was a time when the United States government earned the trust of its people. There was a time when most people believed that the United States government was protecting them. -- Rush Limbaugh
Of all Americans who have appeared on the nation's postage stamps, Ayn Rand is probably the only one to have thought that the United States government has no business delivering mail. -- Thomas Mallon
I have had many opportunities to flee HK, but I would rather stay and fight the United States government in the courts, because I have faith in Hong Kong's rule of law. -- Edward Snowden
The Connection Machines owned by the United States government laboratories were made available to me because they were considered impossible to program and there was no great demand for them at that time. -- Philip Emeagwali
The United States government in Washington constantly gives amnesty to its highest officials, even when they commit the most egregious crimes. And yet the idea of amnesty for a whistleblower is considered radical and extreme. -- Glenn Greenwald
Show me one dictatorship in the world that has not been supported by the United States government or some European governments. It almost doesn't exist. I think a dictatorship and hegemony are part of the same phenomenon. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
In the United States, whatever you may think of Julian Assange, even people who are not necessarily big fans of his are very concerned about the way in which the United States government and some companies have handled Wikileaks. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
There was a hateful video that was disseminated on the internet. It had nothing to do with the United States government and it's one that we find disgusting and reprehensible. It's been offensive to many, many people around the world. -- Susan Rice
What the F.D.I.C. does is to put the full faith and credit of the United States government behind every savings account in the nation, up to a limit that has changed over the years and stands now at $100,000. -- Nick Clooney
I think of myself, an Iranian/American artist, and wonder what would I want if I'm ever imprisoned by the Iranian government for the work that I make? I answer: I would hope that the United States government comes to my rescue. -- Shirin Neshat
There is a massive apparatus within the United States government that with complete secrecy has been building this enormous structure that has only one goal, and that is to destroy privacy and anonymity, not just in the United States, but around the world. -- Glenn Greenwald
Any time the United States government turns over an American citizen, including military personnel, to the government of another country, it is in our nature to want to make sure that they receive the best treatment, the fairest treatment, and the most humane treatment. -- Howard Baker
In full accordance with the law - and in order to prevent terrorist attacks on the United States and to save American lives - the United States government conducts targeted strikes against specific al-Qa'ida terrorists, sometimes using remotely piloted aircraft, often referred to publicly as drones. -- John O. Brennan
If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single honest dollar in its treasury. If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized. -- Lysander Spooner
The United States government does not negotiate with terrorists. -- Cofer Black
The United States influences government and life everywhere else. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
SARS is just made up by the Government of the United States! -- Bif Naked
If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States. -- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer's government. -- Chauncey Depew
The Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion. -- James Buchanan
The Smithsonian Institute is one of the most popular agencies of government in the United States. -- Norm Dicks
... happily the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance. -- George Washington
The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion. -- John Adams
The United States is not for democracy in Iraq, it's for setting up a puppet government. -- Peter Camejo
Government without a tough and vibrant media is not an option for the United States of America. -- Barack Obama
Ex-Presidents of the United States get state subsidies. Not so in Russia. You get no government support. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
I wish we could begin a new period of normal relations with the government of the United States. -- Hugo Chavez
We no longer have a free market in the United States, we have a government controlled free market. -- Jim Bunning
I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation. -- Lajos Kossuth
By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers. -- Norman Ralph Augustine
The United States recognizes the provisional government as the de facto authority of the new State of Israel. -- Harry S. Truman
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The United States is the only country left now, bar Romania, Bulgaria and Poland, that has this all-government system. -- John Mica
Go and try to start your own government in the United States today and you'll be squashed very quickly. -- Peter Diamandis
I am obligated to and will pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes to the United States government, -- Eduardo Saverin
When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying. -- Lee J. Cobb
The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States. -- Woodrow Wilson
The United States government, in figuring our gross national product, defines 'durable goods' as anything that will last three years. -- Barbara Holland
The intelligence activities undertaken by the United States government are lawful, necessary and required to protect Americans from terrorist attacks -- Dana Perino
What is understood by republican government in the United States is the slow and quiet action of society upon itself. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
The UN could help the Iraqi government get on its feet and help the United States withdraw a bit more. -- Brent Scowcroft
In government procurement, for example, the opportunity German firms have in the United States is 10 times larger than in Canada. -- Michael Froman
If only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate. -- Siraj Wahhaj
The United States furnishes the first example in history of a government deliberately depriving itself of all legislative control of religion. -- Philip Schaff
Arizona seeks only to enforce the nominal immigration policy of the United States. Perhaps the federal government should try it sometime. -- Rich Lowry
THE most widespread form of child abuse in the United States is parents sending children to the government to be educated. -- Neal Boortz
The United States enjoy a scene of prosperity and tranquility under the new government that could hardly have been hoped for. -- George Washington
When a country is at war we want Congressmen, regardless of party, to back up the government of the United States. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Anyone who is honestly seeking a job and can't find it, deserves the attention of the United States government, and the people. -- John F. Kennedy
We're a country that abhors the government. From Reagan on, many people think the government is the enemy in the United States. -- Peter Kuznick
Unreason is now ascendant in the United States?in our schools, in our courts, and in each branch of the federal government. -- Sam Harris
The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government. -- Michael Mandelbaum
For the Mexican people, for the Mexican government, the very good relationship with the United States of America is, of course, essential. -- Enrique Pena Nieto
The several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government -- Thomas Jefferson
If a foreign government had imposed this system of education on the United States, we would rightly consider it an act of war. -- Glenn T. Seaborg
There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States. -- Howard Zinn
If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it. -- Woodrow Wilson
For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending. -- Mike Pence
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible. -- Woodrow Wilson
In fact, a rather striking aspect of business propaganda in the United States is the demonization of government, starting after the Second World War. -- Noam Chomsky
Stand up and pledge with me: A government of the United States is not on the auction block. And America is not for sale! -- Tom Selleck
I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future. -- Ibrahim Hooper
In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship. -- Tony Garza
Most governments are designed to protect the government from the people, whereas the United States government was organized to protect the people from the government. -- Jeff Cooper
The United States government has always been proud of the welcome it has extended to good men of every nation, seeking freedom and homes and bread. -- John Muir
Many senior government officials, CIA, FBI, counter terrorism officials - when they look back at the decade, they effectively conclude that the United States overreacted after 9/11. -- Richard Engel
The Government of the United States would be constrained to hold the Imperial German government to a strict accountability for such acts of their naval authorities. -- Woodrow Wilson
I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes. -- Calvin Coolidge
I believe the government of the United States should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian cause. -- Al-Waleed bin Talal
Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion. -- James F. Cooper
I believe that for the small numbers of Jewish people in the United States, they exercise a tremendous amount of influence on the affairs of government. -- Louis Farrakhan
We wouldn't turn over our customs service or our border patrol to a foreign government. We shouldn't turn over the ports of the United States, either. -- Bob Menendez
The National Security Council's real role is to coordinate the various activities of the government of the United States in the furtherance of American foreign policy. -- Oliver North
If children do not understand the Constitution, they cannot understand how our government functions, or what their rights and responsibilities are as citizens of the United States. -- John Roberts
The idea that the United States government would have to figure out what to do about the headscarf is simply ludicrous. We don't get involved in that. -- Diana L. Eck
I think Dianne Feinstein may be the most Orwellian political official in Washington. It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. -- Glenn Greenwald
The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection. -- William H. Seward
On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving the new territory. -- Meriwether Lewis
In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the two great oligarchies of our time. -- Edward Abbey
China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks. -- Virginia Foxx
After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. -- Alexander Hamilton
What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s - was pro-American stability. -- Stephen Kinzer
Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops." -- Jeremy Rifkin
No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States. -- Woodrow Wilson
The United States needs to be far clearer: we cannot and will not support any government where Hamas has a real influence and the security forces stop fighting terror. -- Elliott Abrams
Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States. -- George W. Bush
It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States. -- Andrew Jackson
It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States -- Andrew Jackson
Everything that has happened in my life is because of good government and because the United States of America was the greatest nation on the face of the earth. -- Andrew Young
We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States. -- Kim Jong Il
I was reluctant to be critical of the United States because I thought the United States could do no wrong; that the government could not lie to its people. -- Eric Kandel
If you were starting from scratch to invent an instrument that could impose fiscal discipline, the last one on earth you would come up with is the United States government. -- Meg Greenfield
Indeed, it is quite sad to see the United States becoming the main exporter of arms. It is quite sad to look at the U.S. government subsidizing arms exports. -- Oscar Arias
The United States government does not authorise or condone torture of detainees. Torture, and conspiracy to commit torture, are crimes under US law, wherever they may occur in the world. -- Condoleezza Rice
[T]he only thing the United States government ever did about slavery was to abolish it. Perhaps that was a mistake, but I do not feel inclined to apologize for it. -- Jeff Cooper
I had the privilege of chairing Judge Samuel Alito confirmation hearing in 1990. And at that time, he had practiced law for 14 years, but only represented one client, the United States government. -- Edward Kennedy
I believe that the United States government was set up with the help of God, and it is the closest government in the world to how God would have men govern themselves. -- Gary Hansen
It has been more than 30 years since this disgraceful episode occurred, and I believe that the United States government should demand the return of the USS Pueblo to the United States Navy without further delay. -- Wayne Allard

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