States Quotes
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The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states.
Lester B. Pearson
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I don't have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.
William S. Burroughs
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This state of independence shall be!
John Roy Anderson
Yes
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The socialized state is to justice, order, and freedom what the Marquis de Sade is to love.
William Francis Buckley
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Over many years, the United States has worked to persuade and compel governments around the world to abide by the rules. By spurning our own rules, we put that effort at risk.
Anthony Lewis
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Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.
Tom Stoppard
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All the States and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedoms.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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We call upon the nuclear-weapon states to immediately cease their plans to further invest in modernizing and extending the life span of their nuclear weapons and related facilities.
Mohammad Javad Zarif
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When I do all-hands calls - and I do a lot of all-hands calls - and I look out across 50 people, or 5,000 people, I see United States sailors. I do not see male sailors, or female sailors, and I do not think anybody else does, either.
Ray Mabus
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We have never meddled in the domestic affairs of any state and we never will.
Vladimir Putin
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There are one or two things, which you can directly do in very critical times. But otherwise, this indirect influence that you can exercise on the affairs of the State is the most important role he can play. And, he can play it successfully only if he is, his ideas and his nature of functioning are seen by the public in tune with their standards. The President has to be a citizen and there must be some equation between the people and the President, and if some advice or something is to be given to the executive, it would be received with grace, it would be sometimes accepted, if it is known that the public opinion is on the side of the kind of advice the President is giving. Otherwise, he cannot exercise much influence.
K. R. Narayanan
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Same sex marriage must be decided by the states, and by the people in the states, not by judges and not even by legislators, but by the people themselves.
Liz Cheney
