States Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Power is of an encroaching nature.

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.

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

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?

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

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

States are not moral agents.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The economic picture in the States today doesn't allow for jazz concerts in a tour fashion. People now are too used to the Festival, which gives them more names for the same price.

The actions and inactions of hundreds of millions of people and nearly 200 states, will affect what kind of world emerges in the time ahead.

By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand.

A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs.

We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions.

This Court repeatedly has recognized that the whole subject of the domestic relations of husband and wife belongs to the laws of the States and not to the laws of the United States.

In my opinion, we've elected a Marxist [Barack Obama] to be president of the United States.

When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God.

To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States of America is pathetic.

People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected.

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

A few weeks ago we were reminded that other peoples - in particular the United States of America - fought so that we Germans could live in liberty. That we should never forget.

The tendency of welfare spending in the United States has been to increase at an exponential rate.

There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.

Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states.

The depression was just a state of mind. It is over for everyone who has changed his state of mind.

The United States is evil ... it is the canker of the world.

We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 million to show states how they might meet this more sophisticated approach.

Therefore, states are equal in natural rights.

Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States remained almost, if not quite stationary.

This flick is all I have to say about being 17, the United States Navy, Christmas and the Fourth of July.

Satan has his sights on the United States of America.

The views of the Contact Group member-states must be taken seriously, as well as the guidelines set out in their document on Kosovo, which clearly says that the province should not be divided.

Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada are the horns, the head, the neck, the shins, and the hoof of the ox, and the United States are the ribs, the sirloin, the kidneys, and the rest of the body.

Taxes are the sinews of the state.

Work up imagination to the state of vision.

If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.

If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don't think there's anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States.