States Quotes

I said, well, it's a very primitive country, the United States, and it's full of superstitions, which come out of a very fundamental religious bias, which is primitive Christianity.

If you want to rise in politics in the United States, there is one subject you must stay away from, and that is politics.

States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs.

The real charm of the United States is that it is the only comic country ever heard of.

The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered.

The United States should not under any circumstances throw away our gun until we are sure the rest of the world cannot arm against us.

A man who is not interested in politics is not doing his patriotic duty toward maintaining the constitution of the United States.

I have great faith in the United States. It's the only country I would ever live in.

I love England but everything that has happened makes me realise that I would be better off in the States.

Access to natural resources can become a question of survival for many states.

In the history of the United States, there is no continuity at all. You can cut through it anywhere and nothing on this side of the cut has anything to do with anything on the other side.

Justified by the war on drugs, the United States is in the midst of a prison binge made obvious by the fact that since 1970, the number of people behind bars... has increased 600 percent.

Before the Civil War, the Southern states were selling a lot of cotton to England and didn't seem to mind British occupation. By and large, the Revolutionary War wasn't at all great for business.

All things are in a state of flux.

Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.

Everything I did as secretary of state was in furtherance of America's interests and our values.

I have said it before but it bears repeating: Aid is not a gift. The United States provides foreign assistance because it serves OUR interests.

When the President (of the United States) mentions your name in anger, you know the sh*t has hit the fan!

The most critical problem we face, not only in the barrios, but in Nicaragua and Central America, is that of the threat of an invasion by the United States.

All the Democrats do is bicker. They're not concerned about the war or the fate of the United States of America. They're desperate characters.

The only thing I'm running for is the state line.

Let one state in the U.S. be free of government and overnight you would have an economic powerhouse.

The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.

By going along with feelings, you unify your emotional, mental and bodily states. When you try to fight or deny them, you divorce yourself from the reality of your being.

It is possible there will be much less support for NATO because there is a lot of identification of the United States with NATO.

Before World War II in Canada, you were nobody until you went to England. Then, after that it was you're nobody until you went to the States.

There are now more obese people in the United States than there are overweight people. I think it's safe to say that after all these years, Diet Coke is a complete failure.

Any state with an initiative process is on our radar.

Where the states are dead set on suppressing political opposition, it's very hard to overcome that.

Perhaps the best thing which can be said about newspapers in the United States is that they are in chronic disagreement with each other. That is what is meant by a free press.

Allow states to opt out of No Child Left Behind.

Nothing on my trip thus far was as I expected which shows you that rather than simply read about the United States you have to log the journey.

I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn't mean I won't run.

The United States is the most powerful nation on Earth and it just can't walk away from the Middle East and central Asia and the Horn of Africa.

The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation.

The error is in the assumption that the General Government is a party to the constitutional compact. The States ... formed the compact, acting as sovereign and independent communities.

I think the United States is still the indispensable force for positive change and for rule of law and for order and structure.

Arkansas is a curious and interesting community ... it is probably the most untouched and unawakened of all American states.

The people of the Southern States now own near five millions of these negroes, and they are worth to them near three millions of dollars.

It seems that it is only in the United States that an almost masochistic attack on the position of its own oil companies exists.

The visual impact of a United States battleship springs from its ability to put Soviet ships on the bottom of the sea and to put devastating firepower ashore - nothing else.

It's time to repeal gun bans everywhere in the United States.

Love is not a given, it's a state that we work toward and experience gradually.

Whether to the nation or to the state, no service can be or ever will be rendered by a more able or a more faithful public servant.

The United States, democratic and various though it is, is not an easy country for a fiction-writer to enter: the slot between the fantastic and the drab seems too narrow.

In the United States, to an unprecedented degree, the individual's social role has come to be determined not by who he is but by what he can accomplish.

This state of independence shall be!

Even if we are all doomed to live under the state, it doesn't follow that there is, or even can be, such a thing as a good state.

If the Constitution is a compact, then the States have a right to secede.

Everyone should understand that when they add their friends to Facebook, they are doing free work for United States intelligence agencies in building this database for them.