States Quotes

Washington always has a high level of hypocrisy, right, but I think the level of hypocrisy that has come out of the United States Senate on both sides of the aisle is amazing.

We show no relish for reconfiguring the relationship between the state, the market and society. The world is on the turn, yet we do not seem equal to the challenge.

I think I can speak for every Senator, saying that he or she ran for the Senate because we want to help make this a better place; that is, we want to help our States and help America.

The United States has 4 percent of the world's population and 34 percent of its Nobel laureates.

The United States has worse income inequality than Nigeria.

Those who claim France as a nation-state is obsolete are wrong.

Americans are all inquisitive, which accounts for their go-aheadativeness, I dare say.

Then again maybe there's something that I've been doing in the privacy of my own bedroom my whole life that I think is perfectly normal but is actually illegal in thirty-two states.

Preserving and protecting the state tobacco settlement funds is the nations Governors highest priority.

I’m scared I’m going to spend the rest of my life in a state of yearning, regardless of where I am.

Government funding that's coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It's really palpable - it's making a huge difference saving lives.

My parents immigrated to the United States with $10 in their pocket and a belief that the America they had heard about really did exist as the land of opportunity.

We [the United States] are the world's only superpower right now, so everyone notices every bit of what we do or don't do.

One of the things we've lost as blacks in the United States is imagining different ways the world could be organized, how this country could be organized, how politics could be organized.

States and counties routinely bear the costs associated with incarcerating undocumented criminal aliens once they enter the criminal justice system.

In government procurement, for example, the opportunity German firms have in the United States is 10 times larger than in Canada.

If you increase living standards, you make labor more productive. This is why Asia today is becoming more productive than the United States.

Most of the European leaders look at themselves as having to follow the United States, because if the US opposes them, there will be a regime change.

Europe is acting in a very self-destructive manner, but is doing so because it's trying to be loyal to the United States.

The United States Government has fought against creation of an international court to adjudicate the ability of national economies to pay debts.

The vast majority of $100 bills are abroad, not in the United States. So yes, of course there's a use here but nowhere near as much as there's a use for $100 bills abroad.

The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United States government, and the Chinese government to aggressively pursue digital education.

Doing something that warrants the attention of the President of the United States is super-cool.

The removal of Saddam Hussein and his replacement by someone beholden to the United States is a key part of a broader United States strategy aimed at assuring permanent American global dominance.

I think the refugee problem is Europe is vastly worse than we have in the United States.

They [ French] still have an open border in Europe. And they have a Europe which doesn't have an integrated intelligence system like we do in the United States.

The United States stock market, the most iconic market in global capitalism, is rigged.

You could argue the banks are much better capitalised than they were going into the crisis, and everyone's in a much more vigilant state because they still remember the crisis.

Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.

The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.

The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional powers that, while not preparing for armed conflict, do not fully trust one another.

We're going to be examining, how can we more properly screen and vet people coming into the United States? We will also be looking at the border.

Any employer is going to look at your social media before they hire you. Why aren't we doing that when we screen people coming into the United States?

You can't just put the military in the streets of the United States rounding up illegal aliens. I think that would be a violation of federal law.

You think history is going to remember the United States as a great democracy? No, they're going to think of us as a nation that became addicted to war. They'll call us warlords.

I ask all Americans with a conscience to shun anything and everything to do with the murderous state of Georgia.

In some states, you can vote a straight party ticket, but you can't vote for individual candidates.

I think that capitalism in general is responsible, not for the worldwide recession, but for a lot of suffering, both in the United States and around the world.

I was one of the first 18-year-olds in the United States elected to public office right after 18-year-olds got the right to vote back in the early '70s. I ran for the Board of Education.

As the briefer, my job is to carry CIA's best information and best analysis to the president of the United States and make sure he understands it.

You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel.

I think we'll see it mostly in the United States. We're getting to the point where al Qaeda is ready to again attack us inside America. I think we're basically defenseless.

Well, the next attack in the United States will be larger than 9/11. And there's no doubt that if they have a weapon of mass destruction, they'll use it.

Egypt is going to be, potentially, a failed state if we don't help them.

I require and enforce as non-interrupted a state of living as you can get in America right now without going off to live by yourself in the mountains.

We have this rising nation China. And one of the things we want to do is make sure that China's neighbors are actually bound to us, bound to the United States.

T is one and the same Nature that rolls on her course, and whoever has sufficiently considered the present state of things might certainly conclude as to both the future and the past.

I am unusual for a Frenchman - I have absolutely nothing against the United States.

When you are running for the presidency of the United States, you have to expect that you are going to have attacks by all sides.

We saw the president of the United States engage American troops in a fourth conflict in a foreign land. This is historic.