Sunita Williams Quotes

Maybe we are all prospective migrants. The lines of national borders on maps are artificial constructs, as unnatural to us as they are to birds flying overhead. Our first impulse is to ignore them.

With respect to the northeastern boundary of the United States, no official correspondence between this Government and that of Great Britain has passed since that communicated to Congress toward the close of their last session.

People in the United Kingdom and outside the United States share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself.

Most Americans think that Canada is a part of the United States—a chilly part.

Countries separated by half the globe do not present the natural conditions for being under one government, or even members of one federation.

They are two different countries.

All divisions are man-made.

This was a continent of divisions, of wars, of conflicts, of divergences, differences... When I am in Asia, in Africa, people admire what we have managed to do. Europe is beautiful seen from other continents.

There are many conflicting interests in Europe.

China is just so different from the rest of the world.

It's important that we elevate and primarily focus on the rights of American citizens, but it's also important that we don't forget, 95 percent of the world's population lives beyond our own borders.

You forget, living outside of a country, that the actions of the government are not the actions of the people.

Europe and the United States are not the whole world.

America is not the world.

If we looked down at the world from space, we would not see any demarcations of national boundaries. We would simply see one small planet, just one.

I just think you Westerners should take over this country if you are so smart.

I'm standing up for the U.S. But it's hard when Russians don't have any respect for the current leadership.

The greatest fallout of the space program, ... was not the close-up view of the moon, but a look at spaceship Earth from afar. For the first time in the history of humanity, we were able to see our planet for what it really is.

In foreign policy it's not necessary to have similar views to have a conversation.

I am always concerned with ideas of territory and movement. Indeed, my first book after Bunker Archeology was entitled L'insecurite du territoire (1976).

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

Properly speaking, global thinking is not possible... Look at one of those photographs of half the earth taken from outer space, and see if you recognize your neighborhood. The right local questions and answers will be the right global ones. The Amish question, what will this do to our community? tends toward the right answer for the world.

Even if you are a liberal in the Muslim world, when you see Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, and you see all the other reports of abuses by American forces, it's very hard to get up and say, "We should simulate the American ways," because this is the face of America now in the Muslim world, for many Muslims.

You can have a lot of New York and still see what's going on in the rest of the world, I think - like in China.

I was working with a number of African heads of state. And after their initial surprise, I think many of them just treated me as they would anybody else. They had to deal with me as a representative of the United States of America, and the United States of America was too important to be dismissed or ignored on any grounds.