Fidel Castro (1926–2016) former First Secretary of the Communist Party and President of Cuba
As quoted in "Castro Wanted a Nuclear Strike" in The New York Times (October 23, 1992)
Message to the Tricontinental (1967)
Fidel Castro (1926–2016) former First Secretary of the Communist Party and President of Cuba
As quoted in "Castro Wanted a Nuclear Strike" in The New York Times (October 23, 1992)
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
2000s, 2009, Farewell speech to the nation (January 2009)
Context: It has been the privilege of a lifetime to serve as your President. There have been good days and tough days. But every day I have been inspired by the greatness of our country and uplifted by the goodness of our people. I have been blessed to represent this Nation we love. And I will always be honored to carry a title that means more to me than any other: citizen of the United States of America, and so, my fellow Americans, for the final time: Good night. May God bless this house and our next President. And may God bless you and our wonderful country.
Fidel Castro (1926–2016) former First Secretary of the Communist Party and President of Cuba
The Second Declaration of Havana (1962)
“There are more whooping cranes in the United States of America than there are women in Congress.”
Joanna Russ (1937–2011) American author
Part 4, Chapter 8 (p. 61)
Fiction, The Female Man (1975)
James Madison (1751–1836) 4th president of the United States (1809 to 1817)
A paraphrased variant of this seems to have arisen on the internet around 2007: It is ... a settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute. The United States, while they wish for war with no nation, will buy peace with none. <br class="br">1810s <br class="br">Source: Message delivered to Dey Omar Agha, by Isaac Chauncey and William Shaler , summarizing the Treaty with Algiers (1815) http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/bar1815t.asp, and U.S attitudes and actions in the Barbary Wars, in refusing to pay ransom or tribute to pirates of the Barbary States, as quoted in History and Present Condition of Tripoli: With Some Accounts of the Other Barbary States http://books.google.com/books?id=YMwRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA46 (1835) by Robert Greenhow, p. 46
“There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.”
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2015, State of the Union Address (January 2015)
Context: You know, just over a decade ago, I gave a speech in Boston where I said there wasn’t a liberal America or a conservative America; a black America or a white America -- but a United States of America.
Context: There is not a liberal America and a conservative America — there is the United States of America. There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America — there's the United States of America.
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
2000s, 2002, State of the Union address (January 2002)
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
First address to Congress (24 February 2009)
2009
Context: But while our economy may be weakened and our confidence shaken; though we are living through difficult and uncertain times, tonight I want every American to know this: We will rebuild, we will recover, and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before.
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
The Geographical History of America (1936)