“Unfortunately, the country is not a democracy. It's a republic. I think it's a republic that's in decay.”— A. Whitney Brown
“The U.S. is a hedge fund, basically. We have a lot of debt, and we have a lot of assets.”— Bill Gross
“We are the most powerful nation on earth. No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves.”— George Soros
“The people of Iran are not afraid of the United States. And they are not afraid of your bombs, of your warships.”— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
“The major point is that the US lags far behind all the other advanced industrialized countries in its policies for young children and working parents.”— Sheila B. Kamerman
“We don't have a problem with the people of America, but we have a problem with the government of America.”— Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani