Quotes with states

Quotes 141 till 160 of 301.

  • John Maynard Keynes Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Byron Dorgan Nowhere in this country should we have laws that permit drinking and driving or drinking in vehicles that are on American highways. This is not rocket science. We know how to prevent this, and 36 states do.
    Byron Dorgan
    American author, businessman (1942 - )
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  • Andrew Jackson Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Bill Haslam Obviously, we have a political season in the United States, and there's always different winds that blow on that.
    Bill Haslam
    American businessman and politician (1958 - )
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  • Arnold J. Toynbee Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.
    Arnold J. Toynbee
    British historian and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Gore Vidal On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Oscar Wilde On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Barack Obama One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Bob Ney Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States' oil reserves by nearly 50 percent, but it will create thousands of good U.S. jobs.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Bob Menendez Our challenge in this regard will be to broaden the scope of our federal funds in terms of international diplomacy, development aid, and international assistance. Many Latinos in the United States look at Latin America and see trouble brewing.
    Bob Menendez
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Thomas Paine Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS - our inferior one varies with the place.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Campbell Brown Our educational establishment is failing; it is past time for courage, honesty, and action commensurate with the need, particularly here in the United States.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Alfred Adler Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Ben Carson Our strength as a nation comes in our unity. We are the United States of America, not the divided states. And those who want to divide us are trying to divide us, and we shouldn't let them do it.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Barack Obama Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it.
    9 May 2008. youtu.be/EpGH02DtIws
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Assata Shakur People ask me if I miss the States. I miss African Americans. But not the U.S. government or all the things they put me through. I miss African American culture, our speech, dance and cooking.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Bill Hicks People in the U.K. share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself. They have a sense of irony, which America doesn't have, seeing as it's being run by fundamentalists who take things literally.
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Bill Hicks People in the United Kingdom and outside the United States share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself.
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Louis de Bernieres People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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  • Adam Michnik Poland is an ally of the United States of America. It was our duty to show that we are a reliable, loyal, and predictable ally. America needed our help, and we had to give it.
    Adam Michnik
    Polish historian, essayist and dissident (1946 - )
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