Us Policies Quotes

Little by little, the U.S. has allowed questionable domestic policies to chip away at the only hope poor students have at a better future. The Right Wing loves to distract voters from these realities by making it seem as though the poor remain so because they lack the work ethic necessary to 'pull themselves up by their bootstraps.'

By unleashing an active diplomacy on its nuclear activities, Iran has effectively neutralized the European and US policies,.

The President, in talking about freedom and democracy, is sparking a wave of very positive democratic sentiment that might help us override both Islamic fundamentalism that has formed in that region, and also some of the hatred for our policies of invading Iraq.

Yeah, remember, under the Bush administration, welfare — I mean, excuse me, poverty among African Americans and among single unmarried women, poverty was at the lowest rate ever in the history of this country. So Obama’s policies are not working, Bush polices worked! For long a time as a matter of fact.

There is one source of injustice in Cuba: The Castro regime. It is not United States policies and it is not the United States embargo.

...the policies that the United States has chosen unfortunately have brought about the wrong sentiment toward the United States and has only increased, and will only increase, extremism in our region.

I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.

Also, people are not often aware of the way the United States' policies influence what happens in places like Haiti or El Salvador or Nicaragua. Or in Columbia right now.

America needs to follow the policies it has introduced in Germany. We have to go through a certain de-Nazification process.

The job of being president, understanding the particular policies that America has gotten itself into over the past 400 years.

My book is focused on the power of the American state, not least because the government of the United States governs so much that the case could be made that everybody around the world ought to have a vote in determining some of its policies.

The earthquake in Haiti was a class-based catastrophe. It didn't much harm the wealthy elite up in the hills, they were shaken but not destroyed. On the other hand the people who were living in the miserable urban slums, huge numbers of them, they were devastated. Maybe a couple hundred thousand were killed. How come they were living there? They were living there because of-it goes back to the French colonial system-but in the past century, they were living there because of US policies, consistent policies.

Immigration reform should mean something else entirely. It should mean improvements to our laws and policies to make life better for American citizens.

The American people ought to know that it is not them, but their government's policies, that are so hated.

There are some places that have had real quarrels with the United States' policies, but I think the country is very well-respected worldwide.

[Martin Luther] King has no competence to speak about complex matters of foreign policy…. It is nothing short of arrogance when Dr. King takes it upon himself to thus undermine the policies of the United States ….

No one is concerned with Central America anymore. If a million people are facing starvation in northern Nicaragua and Honduras, it's none of our business. Few people even recognize that this situation is in part an outgrowth of US policies going back to the 1980's. Nobody is concerned because Nicaragua is technically stable.