States Quotes
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I'm often at odds with my colleagues, but I've managed to get legislation passed which will not even be attempted in other states. Rather than use the word "cooperate," I'll say there's kind of a peaceful coexistence, a wary watching of each other. I'm very courteous and polite, and people allow me to be. Some people have applied the term charming to me. I don't use that term unless I'm the snake charmer and they're the snake.
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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."
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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.
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When Delaware State University was founded in 1890, it was not by choice, but by social reality.
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States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.
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Every head of state and government in the world is allowed to have his opinion and to voice it.
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Dispassion is the best of mental states. . . .
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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.
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When a system is considered in two different states, the difference in volume or in any other property, between the two states, depends solely upon those states themselves and not upon the manner in which the system may pass from one state to the other.
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I do not think I am entitled to assess the President of the United States. This is up to the American people.
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I just want everyone to know that 20,000 gun laws in the United States are unconstitutional. They infringe on your right to protect your life, the lives of your loved ones, and your property.
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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.
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People in the United States still have a 'Tarzan' movie view of Africa. That's because in the movies all you see are jungles and animals . . . We too watch television and listen to the radio and go to dances and fall in love.
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You go to conferences, and your fellow African intellectuals - and even heads of state - they all say: 'Nigeria is a big disappointment. It is the shame of the African continent.'
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To me, the real 'state of the union' is found in how Americans react to current events.
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You may my Glories and my State depose, But not my Griefes; still am I King of those.
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One cannot always be sure of the truth of what one hears if he happens to be President of the United States.
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Say to the seceded States, "Wayward sisters, depart in peace."
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Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness
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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.
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. . . 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.
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States have always needed intellectuals to con the public into believing that its rule is wise, good, and inevitable
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California as a nation or part of a larger West Coast nation, should other states join with California, would be a good influence on the rest of the United States.
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When it comes to providing aid, developing innovations and making bold steps that change the course of history, the United States is usually on the front lines.
