States Quotes

I like multinational companies. They may have 40 to 60 percent of their engines of growth in the United States, but I do like the diversification of being more global.

About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.

I am an anarchist, and according to anarchist principles nation states become obstacles to a true humanistic globalization.

I have lots of Scottish blood and know that my family name is Scottish. At my home in the States I have a tartan crest but, unfortunately, I do a terrible Scottish accent.

Winner take all does not exist in the Constitution. It's a restriction imposed on the electors by the states.

The comparatively greater prosperity of the United States is an outcome of the fact that the New Deal did not come in 1900 or 1910, but only in 1933.

I have to thank the people, Congress and Government of the United States, for my liberation from captivity.

In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure because the purpose of eating is to relieve pain - hunger.

Part of being a sentient human is the ability to anticipate others' mental states - to say "Fred's going to hate this but Jane would love it."

If you were starting from scratch to invent an instrument that could impose fiscal discipline, the last one on earth you would come up with is the United States government.

Loving your neighbour as much as yourself is practically bloody impossible? You might as well have a commandment that states,'Thou shalt fly'.

One is the goals of 9/11 itself, of that attack was to draw the United States into Afghanistan to fight a counterinsurgency as the Soviets had done before them.

You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed.

Defying History and Theory: The United States as the 'Last Remaining Superpower,'

The best way to begin disarming is to begin-and the United States is ready to conclude firm agreements in these areas and to consider any other reasonable proposal.

We are not a nation, but a union, a confederacy of equal and sovereign states.

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

Unfortunately, nuclear weapons have become identified with state power.

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

I want to destroy the EU, not Europe! I believe in a Europe of nation-states.

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.

It appears that the Soviets are now going to allow prayer in school. One wonders how soon the United States will catch up.

I think the zenith of popular songwriting to the United States of America was that period that started in the '20s and went into the '50s. It was the period of the great American standard song.

Except for the title 'father,' there is no title, including vice president, that I am more proud to wear than that of a senator of the United States.

Art in the United States is a kind of visual entertainment focusing on expected narratives.

Napoleon was the best method. Dissolved all representative institutions and it decided who should rule the state with him.

I've done everything I can as a United States Senator to educate myself on the carbon issue and the climate change issue.

Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with legality.

Finally, states have monopolized, or sought to monopolize, armed force.

Sexual desire is a state not unlike hunger.

Once the state is looked upon as the source of rights, rather than their bound protector, freedom becomes conditional on the pleasure of the state.

I hunted far enough to suspect that the Fathers of the Republic who wrote our Sacred Constitution of the United States not only did not, but did not want to, establish a democratic government.

Tukhachevsky was an especially damaging loss for the army and the state.

Whatever it took to get elected president of the United States, I don't think being a complete and utter moron is one of those predicates.

This outrageous and vicious act of violence against the United States is unforgivable.

The United States Supreme Court, once a reliable if ultimate recourse for progressive and even revolutionary grievances, has become a retrograde wellspring for enormous economic and social distress.

You don't build a new power plant in the United States overnight. It takes years to build.

Nobody out-rednecks the great state of America.

In the bureaucracy, the identity of state interest and particular private aim is established in such a way that the state interest becomes a particular private aim over against other private aims.

Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home.

No state empowered to do what is supposedly necessary will restrain itself to those things. It will expand as much as public opinion will tolerate.

Why did we not know that heads of state were being eavesdropped on, spied on? We are the intelligence committee and we didn't know that.

When you mail Ichiro something from the States, you only have to use that name on the address and he gets it (in Japan). He's that big.

There are too many heavy songs out nowadays. music has been getting too heavy, almost to the state of unbearable.

We need to attend diligently to the state of our soul, and to deal fervently and effectively with God about it.

Everybody in the states is so relaxed, and everybody in Japan is so uptight.

In a country like America, there are places, many states here still where coming out means you lose your job, where coming out means division, where it means potentially abuse.

The subjectivist states his judgements, whereas the objectivist sweeps them under the carpet by calling assumptions knowledge, and he basks in the glorious objectivity of science.

In China, the state controls the corporations, whereas in the United States, the corporations control the state.