States Quotes
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Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.
Hedy Lamarr -
IIn a number of member states, particularly some older ones, there is a fear that economic reform will undermine social protection, ... Such fear is not only misplaced but counterproductive."
Charlie McCreevy
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The U.S. has become a defacto one-party state, with the legislative branch permanently controlled by an incumbent's party and every president exploiting his role as Commander-in-Chief to expand on the imperial prerogatives of his office.
Andrew Bacevich -
Home would not be home to me without a lawn, and if there are, as I've recently read, twenty-five million home lawns in the United States, at least fifty million other Americans must agree with me.
Katharine Sergeant Angell White -
It's so simple: Right to marriage is a civil right, which like all civil rights should not depend on what state you happen to live in.
Annie Laurie Gaylor -
History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.
Claudio Magris -
One cannot always be sure of the truth of what one hears if he happens to be President of the United States.
William Howard Taft -
I do not think I am entitled to assess the President of the United States. This is up to the American people.
Vladimir Putin
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Lots of member states seem to be wanting to put up unjustified barriers." ()
Charlie McCreevy -
States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.
George W. Bush -
For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.
Nursultan Nazarbayev -
I'm a fan of Bill Hicks. He did things that no other stand up did at the time. He was making fun of religion, at that time it was a lot harder to say those things in the States than it was here. To slag off Christianity and fundamentalist Christians, and to be pro drugs and anti gun in the deep south, that's a big ask. And he did that and made it funny. Bill Hicks was able to say things that he really thought, and he managed to make those thoughts funny without a care if it antagonised people.
Ed Byrne -
If states themselves are less able to handle various responsibilities, this leaves open the possibility of the emergence of some form of global governance to fill the void.
George Ritzer -
I was more comfortable somehow in a European Tour setting. I have never really felt comfortable in the States and therefore I have never won a 72-hole event there.
Colin Montgomerie
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Does he [the president] possess the power of making war? That power is exclusively vested in Congress. . . . It is the exclusive province of Congress to change a state of peace into a state of war.
William Paterson -
Strict gun laws are about as effective as strict drug laws...It pains me to say this, but the NRA seems to be right: The cities and states that have the toughest gun laws have the most murder and mayhem.
Mike Royko -
I said in court a long time ago that I didn't see that the Soviet Union was significantly helped by the information I gave them, nor that the United States was significantly harmed.
Aldrich Ames -
A state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis.
Carroll Quigley -
For a bill to become law, it truly has to be the will of the people, and for a president to stop the will of the people and stop what you're trying to do in your state is not the role of Washington.
Nikki Haley -
Democratical States must always feel before they can see: it is this that makes their Governments slow, but the people will be right at last.
George Washington
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Hope, purpose and determination are not merely mental states. They have electrochemical connections that affect the immune system.
Norman Cousins -
It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy
Mercy Otis Warren -
I feel like the guy that's got two women that's fighting over him. It would be nice if it was two women instead of two states.
George Shinn -
. . . the state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.
Thomas More