Quotes with states

Quotes 181 till 200 of 301.

  • 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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  • 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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  • Anna Lindh The conflict in the Middle East needs to be solved for the same reasons. It is necessary to reach a two-states solution, built on international law, for sustainable peace and development, and it can only be achieved through joint efforts by the international community.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Gore Vidal The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • John F. Kennedy The day before my inauguration President Eisenhower told me, ''You'll find that no easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, somebody else has solved them.'' I found that hard to believe, but now I know it is true.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Assata Shakur The death penalty is used in such a blatantly racist way in the United States. There is no way that can be defended under any kind of definition of justice by anybody.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Burke Marshall The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it's different in different states.
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  • Bob Graham The doctors have given me a green light. They have said that my heart is significantly more efficient today than it was four months ago. And I am anxious to be the next president of the United States.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Benjamin Tucker The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.
    Address to Unitarian Ministers
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Bobby Seale The FBI's Counter-Intelligence Program would work hand-in-hand with police departments, literally planning attacks on Black Panther Party offices throughout the United States of America. They did this over a period of time.
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Bill Dedman The Federal Highway Administration has allowed states to take advantage of a loophole in federal regulations, delaying bridge inspections to every four years instead of the two years normally required.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Arthur Henderson The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Walt Whitman The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Calvin Coolidge The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Carlos Fuentes The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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