States Quotes

Science can only state what is, not what should be.

The State is made for Mankind, not mankind for the state

If you do get married, get a prenup. It's not about money at all. It's about having a document that states how you'll dissolve your marriage while you still have a shred of respect for each other.

The United States turned to repression when its prominence started to slip in Latin America through establishing military dictatorships.

In the United States there's not a lot of people interested in foreign language films. Every time, it's more difficult for foreign language films to survive here.

The notion that employees and companies have a social contract with each other that goes beyond a paycheck has largely vanished in United States business.

I also believe that member states of the United Nations should live up their obligations to pay their dues.

I was born under Communism. I know what it's like to live in a system where you can't speak, you have to whisper. Where the state is so pervasive and so intrusive.

Democracy is an experimental system. I like it when states try out new ideas. I think we ought to expand, not contract, our federalist system.

I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.

There can be no time, no state of things, in which Credit is not essential to a Nation.

If the Constitution is adopted (and it was) the Union will be in fact and in theory an association of States or a Confederacy.

It is presumable that no country will be able to borrow of foreigners upon better terms than the United States, because none can, perhaps, afford so good security.

Though a wide ocean separates the United States from Europe, yet there are various considerations that warn us against an excess of confidence or security.

The treaties of the United States, to have any force at all, must be considered as part of the law of the land.

The attributes of sovereignty are now enjoyed by every state in the Union.

Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.

Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.

In 2004, I joined my father, John Kerry, on the trail in his bid for the United States presidency.

We say the United States is a rich country, but how can we be rich when millions of poor American children go to bed hungry?

A state of equality is perhaps less elevated, but it is more just; and its justice constitutes its greatness and beauty.

[R]eligion cannot share the material strength of the rulers without being burdened with some of the animosity roused against them.

Can we imagine the United States without electricity? No, that would be pretty hard. Likewise, we can't really imagine being without an open Internet. The cost would be so grave, so serious.

It's illegal to be a terrorist in the United States.

Kant takes a free will to be a being or substance with the power to cause a state of the world (or a whole series of such states) spontaneously or from itself.

Fichte would identify all states of our minds with states of our body - perhaps not merely of our brain, but the whole body as an acting organism.

I came to the United States in 1981 as a student.When I left, I was totally the most beloved little flower in China and so it was an outrage basically.

Many states have laws against cousin marriage, which I think are ridiculous - people should be allowed to make that choice.

According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians.

YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown.

If every hypocrite in the United States were to break his leg to-day the country could be successfully invaded to-morrow by the warlike hypocrites of Canada.

"The State of the Jews" was not a title of a country. It was a title of a futuristic novel.

When it's for the good of your state, you put partisan differences aside.

It's never a good time, when you're the president of the United States and your own party is finding lots of different ways to distance themselves from you.

I don't think Russia will follow the United States's way. I don't think Russia will follow the French way. I'm sure Russia will find its own way.

Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to the United States.

Statism – the subordination of the individual to the state - leads inevitably to the most hideous oppression.

Professional trust is a process, not a state.

I would say the issue for the labor movement in the United States is not structural... there is no correlation between the success of workers and how the labor movement is structured.

Of the 50 largest companies in the United States, you are the only woman CEO. Why?

It is actually a very good thing, if after eight years of coverage the president of the United States [Barack Obama] says that this is a cooperation based on friendship that we cooperated well.

Through the threat of IS, we recognize how important the cooperation with intelligence services (inaudible) first and foremost also with the services of the United States is.

Our bilateral relations are very good, they’re very close. In the areas of business, of the economy, the United States of America last year were our most important trading partner.

The cost of testing for BRCA1 and BRCA2, at more than $3,000 in the United States, remains an obstacle for many women.

In the corporeal world, international law is whatever the United States and Great Britain say it is.

Gabby Giffords was a mentor of mine in the state Legislature and also in Congress.

The State Film Authority will be there for film as industry only, as is the case in all the other states, except Victoria. Victoria is moving more now into supporting non-commercial films.

For me, I'm a dancer first. I could be the President of the United States, and I will always be a dancer, first and foremost.

Quite clearly this is a human disaster of enormous proportions. We have tens and tens of thousands of displaced people across the United States,.

the issue of war or peace is an issue that concerns not only experts on Foreign Affairs but every citizen of the United States.