States Quotes - Page 61

Births to illegal immigrants now account for nearly one out of every ten births in the United States.

In the United States large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation’s funeral at our expense.

A state of mind is something that one assumes. It cannot be purchased, it must be created.

In the United States adherence to the values of the masculine mystique makes intimate, self-revealing, deep friendships between men unusual.

It's sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help.

I've never dated. I can say this honestly: I don't know what it's like to date. But also, how am I going to date? I'm not in one state long enough.

Mississippi State has two pretty looking quarterbacks.

I ended up being the governor of a very ag state, Nebraska.

Arkansas is a state where politics is retail.

Having been a head of state gives you the possibility of getting into places others can't go.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

If advertising is not an official or state art, it is nonetheless clearly art.

There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own.

In the United States, rising esteem for the military in uniform corresponds to the growing militarization of the society as a whole. All of this despite repeated revelations of the illegality and immorality of the military's own incarceration systems, from Guantanamo to Abu Ghraib, whose systematic practices border on if not actually constitute torture.

But there are 90 million gun owners in the United States. Only 3.5 million want the insurance and magazines and the various things you get for joining the NRA.

Today, nuclear power provides 20 percent of power in the United States.

Most of our problems in the United States can be traced to a blatant disregard for private property.

The power of the state to impose restraints and burdens upon persons and property in conservation and promotion of the public health, good order, and prosperity is a power originally and always belonging to the states, not surrendered to them by the general government, nor directly restrained by the constitution of the United States, and essentially exclusive.

We start with an economic approach. We look at what are the greatest causes of death in the developing world, and what causes the largest amount of disability, which would prevent you from getting a job. A lot of those deaths start with diseases, diseases we don't get in such a great number in the United States.

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.

Shared interests are great, but not essential. Shared emotional states are what you're after.

There will be no Palestinian state

Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.

Once the state is looked upon as the source of rights, rather than their bound protector, freedom becomes conditional on the pleasure of the state.

Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider.