Maria Shriver Quotes

I had friends of mine tell me they had a baby, and I didn't even know they were pregnant.

I'm somewhat horrified because I don't think the young people today even know what history is. Some of them don't' even study History at school anymore or Geography and they don't know where one place is from another.

My understanding is that Olivia had no idea what was going on.

What else are we not knowing about, and when didn’t we know it.

Why the hell didn't I know about this?

We are raising students in America who are, by and large, historically illiterate.

I didn't even know about amateur boxing, period.

I didn't even know what an Oscar was at the time.

Democracy -- rule by the people -- sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in America.

We got a rally a little while later - to talk to the rally because what I heard at that meeting [in Flint] - it was almost impossible for me to believe that I was listening to people in the United States of America in the year 2016.

I didn't know anything about it, I swear. Nor did Dave Bassett. We were sitting there saying 'What's happening here?'. It is frightening. A nightmare.

We have to truly become a united people of the United States of America, and divisiveness cannot make that happen.

I stand before you today as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency of the United States. I am not the candidate of black America, although I am black and proud. I'm not the candidate of the women's movement of this country, although I am a woman, and I'm equally proud of that. I am not the candidate of any political bosses or fat cats or special interests... I am the candidate of the people...

People are so skillful in their ignorance!

I want people around the world to hear me. To all those who would do us harm, no act of terror will go unpunished. It will not dim the light of the values that we proudly present to the rest of the world. No act of violence shakes the resolve of the United States of America.

We are proceeding on the basis of common values. We have more to gain from partnership, from promoting our partnership in dealing with the big global challenges. I, therefore, believe that in the near future, not much is going to change in the relations between E.U., Greece and the United States of America. These are relations that were forged under very difficult conditions and rely on the common values of our people.

This isn't even something I've feared, because I never knew it was a possibility.

There are three categories of people in America: those who are afraid, those who don't know enough to be afraid, and those who know their Bibles.

This is one thing that's very interesting, how the people on the left always talk about separation of church and state. When you look at the theocracies all across the Middle East, where we look at constitutions that are based upon the Qur'an, I don't think you want to see that happening in the United States of America. So it is a theocratic political construct.

If I had the good fortune of having the ability to influence people all over the world every time I spoke, I would do my best to make sure people understood why the United States of America is special, and then I would suggest that everybody who wants to come here, "I don't blame you, fine and dandy, there's a legal mechanism for this. We're not denying people the right to come to our country. There's a legal way to do it." That's another thing people forget.

If I may, to underline first of all that I am very much impressed that in spite of the very tough election campaign, this transition period in the United States of America follows democratic principles and is all about the American people. It's about the destiny of the American people.

The United States of America is a nation where people are not united because of those three glaring frailties: racism, injustices and inequities.

There are many other areas. And I am confident that each of them is of interest to both the people of the United States of America and the Russian people.

To say that 'wealth in America is so unfairly distributed in America,' as Ronald Dworkin does, is grossly misleading when most wealth in the United States is not distributed at all. People create it, earn it, save it, and spend it.

For the Mexican people, for the Mexican government, the very good relationship with the United States of America is, of course, essential.