States Quotes

Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.

Remember, when we're conscious of something, that state is quite often generated by unconscious processes that happen right before it.

Right now, the Anglo people are desperately trying to hold on to the United States, like they tried to hold on to Africa

What we have in the United States is not so much a health-care system as a disease-care system.

I had the privilege of chairing Judge Samuel Alito confirmation hearing in 1990. And at that time, he had practiced law for 14 years, but only represented one client, the United States government.

I have had many opportunities to flee HK, but I would rather stay and fight the United States government in the courts, because I have faith in Hong Kong's rule of law.

One of the foremost activities of the NSA's FAD, or Foreign Affairs Division, is to pressure or incentivize EU member states to change their laws to enable mass surveillance.

In the United States, there hasn't been much legislative change on the surveillance issue, although there are some tepid proposals.

When it comes to the internet, when it comes to the United States' technical economy, we have more to lose than any other nation on earth.

If a single Russian source would come forward, he would be in hot water. And in the United States, what I did appearing at that [Vladimir] Putin press conference was not worth the price.

If we simply follow the rules that a state imposes upon us when that state is acting contrary to the public interest, we're not actually improving anything. We're not changing anything.

I think the greatest CEOs in the United States business anyway are the ones you don't hear too much about.

This was a "bad" example for U.S. slaves. Haiti was subjected to an embargo from the United States, which, along with many other countries, refused to recognize this new republic.

Or even the state of Florida, where they are prepared to execute children. Umm, well, you hope that at least that there is something there to be claimed.

I know the war in Iraq is controversial in the States, but for us in the Middle East it has made a great and significant impact.

It is becoming increasingly clear that the targets in the Kyoto Protocol cannot and will not be met on the established timetable in the United States and elsewhere.

In the long run there is no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely and then act boldly.

Our obligation to the world is, primarily, our obligation to our own future. Obviously, we cannot develop beyond a certain point unless other nations develop, too.

To a certain extent I don't see any real need for socialism in the United States immediately, but things change and it may be that there will come a need for partial changes in our economy.

North Korea has certainly, in the past, used detainees to initiate diplomatic exchanges with the United States.

Thich Nhat Hanh has the ability to bring forth the state of peace that we each inherently posses merely by his presence in a room-this is divine power.

There's no big budget Canadian movie. Whatever movies are big budget in Canada come from the states. Or also have states financing. Everything's pretty small.

New York is like the weirdest city in the United States, in a great way, and Los Angeles is probably more similar to most of America.

The way for the Palestinians to get a state is to go ahead and build it.

A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and to engage constantly in multilateral diplomacy.

The United States should help strengthen nongovernmental humanitarian agencies working in Sudan so that they can handle an increased flow of aid.

The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.

The population forecast for the United States in 1970 is 170 million. The population forecast for Russia alone in 1970 is 251 million. The implications are clear.

God did not burden the United States with a diversity of backgrounds, ideas and religions, He blessed America with them.

I am very happy because motor racing is very important outside the states, very big all over the world.

I find that it really helps that I live in the States. I'm married to an American, and I have lots of American friends.

When I state myself, as the representative of the verse, it does not mean me, but a supposed person.

To call the State an organism shows a diseased tendency to make a fetish of words.

I mean, I do consider that my music is pop because Ive been influenced by pop music my whole life; I grew up in the States and 80s pop music was my biggest influence.

The American people expect the United States to keep terrorists where they belong, apart from civilized society and outside of America's borders

Guantanamo is a chief recruiting tool for al-Qaida. It has put a wedge between the United States and at least some of its allies.

I'm not going to let people who work in the United States Department of Justice have their characters be assailed without any basis.

The fear of murder has grown so enormous in the United States that it leaves a taint, like the mark of Cain, on everyone murder touches.

If the Russians claim they are Socialist, this is just, I would say, a lie. They have no socialism at all. They have what I would call a state capitalism.

The ownership of industry by the state - that is not socialism.

I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of the State Department.

I think New Orleans is the best city in the United States.

To hell with the Church when it becomes a State and the hell with the State when it becomes a Church.

Science produces an incomparably lyrical state in this man.

The state of the Union largely depends on the state of the unions.

When it comes to federal programs, even if states are discriminating, the federal government should not.

Today the United States has the highest prison population in the world, over 2.1 million people. ... We lock people up at a rate that is seven to ten times that of any other democracy.

The U.S. should be equally responsible for diminishing the cocaine market within the United States as it is in fighting the drug elsewhere.

From my standpoint, coca should be neither destroyed nor completely legalized. Farming should be controlled by the state and by the coca farmers' unions.

I think my track record speaks for myself... I have been endorsed by the African Union, but I am a prosecutor for 121 states parties and this is what I intend to be until the end of my mandate.