States Quotes

If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States.

In fact, during her [Hillary Clinton] tenure as Secretary of State, total arms exports from the United States in terms of the dollar value, doubled.

Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?

People in so many countries look up to the United States as a model of democracy, but I doubt if that can continue. It leaves me with a great sense of loss.

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.

The art of revolutionizing and overturning states is to undermine established customs, by going back to their origin, in order to mark their want of justice.

Jazz has an audience all around the globe and has had for many decades, I think speaking of the United States, let's say that what we need is more of an official recognition.

Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.

When a country is at war we want Congressmen, regardless of party, to back up the government of the United States.

The Mormons had a divine revelation in favour of polygamy, but under pressure from the United States Government they discovered that the revelation was not binding.

An artist has got to be constantly in a state of becoming.

To an American writer, I should think it must be a flattering distinction to escape the admiration of the newspapers.

What is at stake is preserving our relations with the United States. They should not be changed because of what has happened. But trust has to be restored and reinforced.

I think a commission set up to examine slavery and the consequences of it, would probably be a very fruitful, important dialogue for the United States to be involved in.

What state do you live in? Denial.

There are people in many other states who are cheering us.

I have to say that it's very few countries that are willing to look back at its past and apologize for its act, or make amends for its act, as the United States had one.

My first years were spent living just as my forefathers had lived - roaming the green, rolling hills of what are now the states of South Dakota and Nebraska.

I did have a big following in the upper New York area. I was at the New York State Fair a few times over the years. I have areas that I say are my areas.

Alaska itself is an unusual state.

A good portion of the airport is on ceded lands, and lease money was paid for that. So the state's collecting lease money because all of a sudden "worthless" land now has an airport on it.

The potential audience seems to be dwindling in the states. I was kind of embarrassed for the band because of the size of the audience.

But, if you believe we should go around the world overturning regimes to make little United States, I don't agree with that, because I don't think we're capable of doing that.

The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.

The inconveniences we faced within this state are minor compared to... New Orleans.

I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.

The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.

It is no longer a question of controlling a military-industrial complex, but rather, of keeping the United States from becoming a totally military culture.

Arkansas is a state where politics is retail.

Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.

A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.

Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States.

One reason the United States finds itself at the edge of a foreign policy disaster is its underinformed citizenry, a key weakness in democracy.

We cannot, even given our most imaginative efforts, construct a concept of Self that does not impute some causal influence of prior mental states on later ones.

Today, the United States is No. 1 in corporate profits, No. 1 in CEO salaries, No. 1 in childhood poverty and No. 1 in income and wealth inequality in the industrialized world.

One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states).

The Pacific had great hope that when the former President Mitered decided to halt nuclear testing, we had put behind us the issue of nuclear states testing their weapons in our Pacific region.

The state we find ourselves in is sinful quite independent of guilt.

A technical survey that systematize, digest, and appraise the mid century state of psychology.

It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.

If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?

In the deepest sense, the being in a state of sin is the sin, the particular sins are not the continuation of sin, they are expressions of its continuation.

Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.

Without question, so many people, throughout my life, never think of Puerto Rico as part of the United States.

It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.

It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it.

In the United States, the immigrant experience occupies a very central place in American mythology. And sometimes, that place wavers between acceptance and rejection.

The film [Kite Runner] was not as big a hit in the United States as it was worldwide, I think it may have been swallowed up by all the other movies it had to go up against.

How you live your life can affect your mental state.

In 1979, we thought it would be easier to take power. The intervention of the United States has changed the circumstances.