Quotes with nation-states

Quotes 361 till 380 of 622.

  • Ben Shapiro Socialism states that you owe me something simply because I exist. Capitalism, by contrast, results in a sort of reality-forced altruism: I may not want to help you, I may dislike you, but if I don't give you a product or service you want, I will starve. Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Adam Schiff Some argue that recognition of the genocide has become even more problematic now, when the world is at war with terrorism and the United States cannot afford to offend the sensibility of our Turkish ally.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • Caleb Cushing Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Woodrow Wilson Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Carlo Rubbia Soon after my degree, in 1958 I went to the United States to enlarge my experience and to familiarize myself with particle accelerators. I spent about one and a half years at Columbia University.
    Carlo Rubbia
    Italian physicist and inventor (1934 - )
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  • Plato States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Anna Lindh States have the responsibility to create rules and conditions for growth and development, and to channel the benefits to all citizens by providing education and making people able to participate in the economies, and in decision-making.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Machiavelli States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Bernie Sanders States used to protect consumers from predatory lenders, but strong state usury laws were obliterated by a 1978 U.S. Supreme Court decision.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej Support each other as is needed to achieve goals for the benefit of the people and the nation's security.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Abdul Kalam Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Phyllis Schlafly The advance planning and sense stimuli employed to capture a $10 million cigarette or soap market are nothing compared to the brainwashing and propaganda blitzes used to ensure control of the largest cash market in the world: the Executive Branch of the United States Government.
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  • Bill Dedman The Adversity Index was created by msnbc.com and Moody's Analytics to track the economic fortunes of states and metro areas. Each month, the Adversity Index uses government data on employment, industrial production, housing starts and home prices to label each area as expanding, at risk of recession, in recession or recovering.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Barry Commoner The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Bob Graham The American people should be informed about what kind of capability terrorists have inside the United States. They should be informed of why we are not using information to do a more effective job of dealing with terrorists.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Bob Corker The attack on Americans in Benghazi on September 11, 2012 is a stark reminder that our nation must remain vigilant in protecting our citizens from the threat of Al-Qaeda and similar extremist terrorist entities around the world.
    Bob Corker
    American businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Adlai Stevenson II The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Bethany McLean The big banks advise cities about whether privatization is a wise choice. They also control the ability of states and cities to access the market for their financing needs.
    Bethany McLean
    American journalist (1970 - )
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  • Caitlin Doughty The biggest problem is the funerals that don't exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn't in the United States.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Auberon Herbert The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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