States Quotes

I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time.

Unfortunately, nuclear weapons have become identified with state power.

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

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

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

A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States… [we] must design a stable, low-consumption economy.

The line dividing the state from what is called private enterprise, orat least fromthehighlyorganized part of it, is a traditional fiction.

I have campaigned for reform efforts all over the country, ... What happens in California has significant effect in states like mine that are nearby. It's just a reality.

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

We are a nation of laws. And nobody can ignore our Constitution. No one's above the law. And that includes the president of the United States.

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

Nobody out-rednecks the great state of America.

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

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

It's impossible to escape from religion anywhere you are in the States.

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.

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

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.

If the Pilgrims had landed in Santa Monica Bay rather than Boston, we'd have six states out here!

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.

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

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.

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

When things are in the hands of the state they are in a hell of a state!

When we went into the New England states, people were talking about the new sound of Flatt & Scruggs, but we had been doing that sound for 20 years.

Science is a way to pursue one's sense of inquiry at the expense 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.

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.

Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with legality.

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.

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.

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're having the first computer-generated comic strip in the United States.

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

And in the last sentence I would like also to mention that Poland is one of the countries with which the United States has run strategic dialogues since last year.

Writing poetry is a state of free float.

One of the first things I did was interview the President of the United States. Some people work their whole lives and can't interview someone of that stature.

How you live your life can affect your mental state.

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

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

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.

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.

If there are threats to the United States, then I would of course go back to the president and make a recommendation that may include the use of U.S. military ground force.

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

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.

Sexual desire is a state not unlike hunger.

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

The job of the president of the United States is not to love his wife; it's to manage a wide range of complicated issues.

More and more countries of the world have decided that corporations do a better job of generating and deploying capital than do states.

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.