States Quotes

The working class must break up, smash the "ready-made state machinery," and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it.

Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.

It is important that the United States move with all deliberate speed to develop and get into usage alternative fuels that will allow us to end our dependence on foreign oil.

Once the people are terrorized, you can force a police state on them.

Class is rarely talked about in the United States; nowhere is there a more intense silence about the reality of class differences than in educational settings.

A new state, if it wants to join the European Union, has to apply to become a member of the European Union like any state.

The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got.

I have a map of the United States... Actual size. It says, 'Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile.' I spent last summer folding it. I hardly ever unroll it. People ask me where I live, and I say, 'E6.

Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.

The only way to Cuba is with the CIA.

It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.

How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

Anti-Americanism may indeed have grown fiercer than it was during the cold war. It is a common phenomenon that when the angels fail to deliver, the demons become more fearsome.

American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it.

Social security isn’t a ponzi scheme. It’s not bankrupting us. It’s not an outrage. It is working.

I think there needs to be a meeting to set an agenda for more meetings about meetings.

Unless government appropriately regulates oil developments and holds oil executives accountable, the public will not trust them to drill, baby, drill. And we must!

I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.

In history and in life one sometimes seems to glimpse a ferocious law which states: to he that has, will be given; from he that has not, will be taken away.

The liberty enjoyed by the people of these states of worshiping Almighty God agreebly to their conscience, is not only among the choicest of their blessings, but also of their rights.

We discovered how much money influences certain things work in United States. How things might seem okay on the outside, but internally, they're corrupt.

Democratical States must always feel before they can see: it is this that makes their Governments slow, but the people will be right at last.

I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.

If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.

I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.

They will sustain the constitution and laws and institutions of the United States, and be the champions of liberty and of that constitution when its integrity shall be threatened.

States are not moral agents.

Europe and the U.K. are yesterday's world. Tomorrow is in the United States.

I believe deeply that it's very important to the United States, to the economic health of the United States, that we maintain a strong dollar.

WikiLeaks presents a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States.

The State is only one of the forms assumed by society in the course of history. Why then make no distinction between what is permanent and what is accidental?

No power over the freedom of religion [is] delegated to the United States by the Constitution.

The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.

Power is of an encroaching nature.

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.

Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sect.

The state is a vast enterprise for declaring all sorts of things legal for itself that would be illegal for us.

It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States.

A local spirit will infallibly prevail much more in the members of Congress than a national spirit will prevail in the legislatures of the particular States.

The state is out of control, the state is on a spending binge, the state has to stop putting itself in a hole thats getting deeper and deeper and deeper.

The pursuit of health is a symptom of unhealth. When this pursuit is no longer a personal yearning but part of state ideology, healthism for short, it becomes a symptom of political sickness.

Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment.

Enlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness

Most of our problems in the United States can be traced to a blatant disregard for private property.

Universities are less constrained by authority and rigid doctrine in the United States than in most other societies, to my knowledge.

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

Since its founding in 1854, Penn State has proven to be a leading institution of higher learning.

States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things--law and war.