300 Quotes on states

• Luckily, he was in the process of moving to France at the time, anyway. But if he had stayed in the States, I don't know how he would have handled that, because it was getting pretty crazy. I mean, a celebrity which he really did not welcome. And I can't blame him.

  Author: Terry Zwigoff

• I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all their hatred on the United States. What about Chinese neo-colonialism? Why are the left silent about that? When I say this, it annoys them, of course. Good!

  Author: Slavoj Zizek

• Any Mexican, would recognise that Mexico was abused, undervalued and downgraded in international circles, most of all by the United States.

  Author: Adolfo Zinser

• In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli.

  Author: Howard Zinn

• Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal.

  Author: Xun Zi

• Bourgeois society is not fundamentally opposed to the bourgeois women's movement, which is proven by the fact that in various states reforms of private and public laws concerning women have been initiated.

  Author: Clara Zetkin

• The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

  Author: Frank Zappa

• Almost a century has passed since Japan first entered the world community by concluding a treaty of amity with the United States of America in 1854.

  Author: Shigeru Yoshida

• That is because the conflict with al Qaeda is not governed by the Geneva Conventions, which applies only to international conflicts between states that have signed them.

  Author: John Yoo

• The other are the strategic, so-called strategic stocks that the United States and the other Western industrial countries have, which could put in as much as four million barrels a day of oil into the market pretty quickly.

  Author: Daniel Yergin

• We are well aware from which countries and through which countries the terrorists are receiving support. In the immediate future I shall be calling upon the leaders of these states to put a stop to this kind of activity.

  Author: Boris Yeltsin

• In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory.

  Author: Isoroku Yamamoto

• The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.

  Author: Deng Xiaoping

• The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.

  Author: Carter Woodson

• By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?

  Author: Victoria Woodhull

• There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not an easy thing to find in our world anymore. It's a unique place because it is so far away from the rest of the world. There is a sense of isolation and also being protected.

  Author: Elijah Wood

• I think one has to say it's not just simply a matter of capturing people and holding them accountable, but removing the sanctuaries, removing the support systems, ending states who sponsor terrorism. And that's why it has to be a broad and sustained campaign.

  Author: Paul Wolfowitz

• I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary quantum field theories or to have new insights about the quantum states of black holes.

  Author: Edward Witten

• I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.

  Author: Alex Winter

• If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.

  Author: Woodrow Wilson

• A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

  Author: Woodrow Wilson

• There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

  Author: Woodrow Wilson

• Community-based policing has now come to mean everything. It's a slogan. It has come to mean so many different things that people who endorse it, such as the Congress of the United States, do not know what they are talking about.

  Author: James Wilson

• If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion.

  Author: James Wilson

• Our recent 5-year labour agreements, in Canada as well as the United States, are based upon experience, logic and principle rather than on pressure, propaganda and force.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside world. But we have practised within our own boundaries something that amounts to race imperialism.

  Author: Wendell Willkie

• The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long range weapons of mass destruction.

  Author: Armstrong Williams

• Illegal immigration is not just a matter of interest in states along our border with Mexico. It is having an effect on local economies, schools, health care delivery, and public safety all across the country.

  Author: Roger Wicker

• The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

  Author: 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.

  Author: Walt Whitman

• One good thing about California is we have quite a broad-based economy. We provide more fruits and vegetables and produce to the United States than any other state. So we have actually the single largest agricultural sector in the country.

  Author: Meg Whitman

• To put that into some perspective, when Bill Clinton and Al Gore had first taken the idea of the Kyoto Protocol up to the Congress, the United States Senate voted it down 95 to nothing.

  Author: Christine Whitman

• Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.

  Author: Ron White

• If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.

  Author: Edmund White

• I hope in time N. H. as well as the other States will feel the importance of Sovereignty.

  Author: William Whipple

• I think experience has shown that privateers have done more toward distressing the trade of our enemies, and furnishing these States with necessaries, than Continental Ships of the same force.

  Author: William Whipple

• Only nine States have been represented since my arrival 'till within three days. There are now Eleven States barely represented. This tardiness in the States or their Delegates, besides retarding the most important Business makes it exceeding fatiguing to those that do attend.

  Author: William Whipple

• Both Christians and religious Jews are finding it increasingly difficult to practice their faiths through college groups on so-called mainline campuses in the United States.

  Author: Paul Weyrich

• A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat.

  Author: Allen West

• Quite simply, federal laws already on the books aimed at stopping the flow of illegal immigration must be enforced. Furthermore, states must be given the resources necessary to confront the problem, which includes strengthening the border patrol.

  Author: Allen West

• No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders.

  Author: Ida Wells

• The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more on their public school systems than the poorer districts.

  Author: William Weld

• In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States.

  Author: Robert Welch

• I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our fifty-two states.

  Author: Raquel Welch

• The Archivist of the United States essentially works for the American people across partisan lines and not, regardless of which Administration nominates the person, for a particular President or political party.

  Author: Allen Weinstein

• We always make the mistake in the United States of America in Democratic or Republican administrations alike is we tend to embrace the despot that's least troublesome to us. That should not be the way we view things.

  Author: Anthony Weiner

• The whole financial industry is consolidating in the United States.

  Author: Sanford Weill

• In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

  Author: Alan Watts

• The United States Postal Service is the world's most efficient postal system.

  Author: Diane Watson

• I think that our primary concern is that the membership in our industry become active. I'm not talking about the candidates being active. I'm talking about the few hundred thousand people who work in the industry around the United States.

  Author: Lew Wasserman

• Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

  Author: George Washington

• A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United STates was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia.

  Author: Mercy Warren

• The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.

  Author: Mercy Warren

• The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.

  Author: Josiah Warren

• There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.

  Author: Earl Warren

• I make personal appearances around the country. I'm starting a book tour now, and I may be coming to Toronto with the Learning Annex, which I'm doing all through the United States, so that may come up just before Christmas.

  Author: Burt Ward

• With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.

  Author: Zack Wamp

• Hamas, also elected to governmental leadership in Palestine, includes the jihadists, people who have declared war on the United States of America and its ally, Israel.

  Author: Zach Wamp

• The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.

  Author: Vernon Walters

• I believe, based on the activities, and I am not an expert on terrorism by any stretch, but I believe that when they attacked the United States and they attacked New York and Washington, D.C., they thought they could defeat us.

  Author: Jim Walsh

• Looking long term, a stronger, wealthier, and more stable Central America next door benefits the United States' own safety, security, and economy.

  Author: James Walsh

• And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school.

  Author: James Walsh

• I would never say President Obama doesn't have the capacity to continue to serve because of his statement that there are 56 states.

  Author: Gerald Walpin

• Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world.

  Author: Henry Wallace

• Our chemical and other manufacturing concerns are all too often ready to let the Germans have Latin American markets, provided the American companies can work out an arrangement which will enable them to charge high prices to the consumer inside the United States.

  Author: Henry Wallace

• The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way.

  Author: Henry Wallace

• Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself.

  Author: Henry Wallace

• If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people.

  Author: Henry Wallace

• If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.

  Author: Henry Wallace

• By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.

  Author: Edward Walker

• While all of these are important and significant events, it is the United States' foreign policy that furthers the advancement of freedoms and rights for women that is the most striking for me.

  Author: Ginny Waite

• There is a series of sectors which could be severely disrupted by terrorist attacks, particularly if they were to happen in several member states simultaneously.

  Author: Gijs Vries

• It was the biggest inflation and the most sustained inflation that the United States had ever had.

  Author: Paul Volcker

• I would like to tell our American, British and Spanish friends that the Iraqi crisis is not a problem between the United States and France, but between those who want to move forward in the logic of war and the international community.

  Author: Dominique Villepin

• If I knew I couldn't win races, I would have stayed in the States.

  Author: Jacques Villeneuve

• No one felt it more than the President. I saw him repeatedly, and he fairly groaned at the inexplicable delay in the advent of help from the loyal States.

  Author: Henry Villard

• On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

  Author: 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.

  Author: Gore Vidal

• I am waiting for the decision, which is not depending of me, to know if the trial will be in Iraq, in the states, or in international court. Of course, the decision is not mine.

  Author: Jacques Verges

• This mass destructive weapons were sold to Iraqi government by the United States. And Mr. Rumsfeld has been one of the man responsible for this sale, for this bargain, for this market.

  Author: Jacques Verges

• So we knew their intentions were to strike in the United States. We also knew from other sources of dozens of examples of where the notion of using planes as weapons was discussed.

  Author: Richard Veniste

• The real question was, here we had this information, Bin Laden intends to strike in the United States. We knew they had struck before in 1993 at the World Trade Center in the first bombing of the trade center.

  Author: Richard Veniste

• Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence of collaboration in any effort to mount any kind of operation against the United States' interests.

  Author: Richard Veniste

• Well, our position, and our chairman has talked about this extensively, is that we had a lot of intelligence prior to 9/11. We knew that two al Qaeda operatives who ultimately participated in the 9/11 disaster were in the United States. We didn't find them.

  Author: Richard Veniste

• Great Britain had a much different situation than we do and did here in the United States, in that they had literally thousands of infected animals with human health risks. Their infectivity in this disease happened before very much was known about it.

  Author: Ann Veneman

• We believe that the United States and the rest of the international community can play a useful role by exerting influence on Pakistan to put a permanent and visible end to cross-border terrorism against India.

  Author: Atal Vajpayee

• To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.

  Author: John Updike

• The show I did in England catered to a broad range of people. I like that. I don't want nouveau cult status, though I know we've got that sort of audience in the states.

  Author: Tracey Ullman

• And it's very strange, but I think there is something very common - not only in Celtic music - but there is a factor or element in Celtic music that is similar in music that we find in Japan, the United States, Europe, and even China and other Asian countries.

  Author: Nobuo Uematsu

• If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

  Author: Lao Tzu

• The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.

  Author: Ted Turner

• While Congress saw some need to loosen the standard in the initial days of a war, it wanted the president to comply with FISA in carrying out surveillance in the United States.

  Author: Jonathan Turley

• The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.

  Author: Mao Tung

• The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.

  Author: Benjamin Tucker

• My big focus is China and OPEC and all of these countries that are just absolutely destroying the United States.

  Author: Donald Trump

• We're not that far from being able to plant images, memories, and emotional states directly into the brain.

  Author: Douglas Trumbull

• He took pride in belonging to the world's most exclusive club: the United States Senate.

  Author: Margaret Truman

• My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

  Author: Harry Truman

• If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.

  Author: Harry Truman

• The States still has the best audiences by far.

  Author: Robin Trower

• The number of people who left for the United states and Canada increased with every year.

  Author: Leopold Trepper

• 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.

  Author: Arnold Toynbee

• Ten of those Republican incumbents, all of whom voted for the impeachment of President Clinton, are from states that Bill Clinton carried.

  Author: Robert Torricelli

• We had a large common domain, already added by the several States for the common benefit of all; purchase and war might make large additions to this common domain; hence the power over existing and future territories, with the stipulation to admit new States, was conferred.

  Author: Robert Toombs

• The instant the Government was organized, at the very first Congress, the Northern States evinced a general desire and purpose to use it for their own benefit, and to pervert its powers for sectional advantage, and they have steadily pursued that policy to this day.

  Author: Robert Toombs

• They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere they declare that slavery shall not go into the Territories.

  Author: Robert Toombs

• The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.

  Author: Robert Toombs

• Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was conferred.

  Author: Robert Toombs

• Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States - no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them for their section of the Republic.

  Author: Robert Toombs

• The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits - surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death.

  Author: Robert Toombs

• The main American naval forces were shifted to the Pacific region and an American admiral made a strong declaration to the effect that if war were to break out between Japan and the United States, the Japanese navy could be sunk in a matter of weeks.

  Author: Hideki Tojo

• At the Imperial Conference on December 1, it was decided to make war against England and the United States.

  Author: Hideki Tojo

• I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States.

  Author: Hideki Tojo

• Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes, made it impossible for the parties to agree.

  Author: Hideki Tojo

• There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.

  Author: Alexis Tocqueville

• After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer.

  Author: James Tobin

• As Members of Congress, we swear an oath to uphold the United States Constitution. It means something to be an American because we believe in our country, we believe in our people, and we believe in our constitution.

  Author: Todd Tiahrt

• The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology.

  Author: Edward Thorndike

• Specifically, the reservation of sovereignty to the people of the states in matters not governed by federal law is constitutionally defined and permanently enshrined in the 10th Amendment.

  Author: Dick Thornburgh

• The capacity of the commonwealth government created under the local constitution to exercise governmental powers in local affairs is like that of local government in the states of the union in regard to non-federal affairs at the local level.

  Author: Dick Thornburgh

• As the highest ranking American official in the United Nations organization, I came to understand thoroughly that the national constitutional processes of the member states define the status of territories under their sovereignty.

  Author: Dick Thornburgh

• However, the sovereignty of the states is constitutionally defined and recognized, while the powers of the local government in Puerto Rico are defined by, and subject to alteration under, federal statutory law.

  Author: Dick Thornburgh

• After one hundred years of federal rule, the United States House of Representatives has moved to provide for the first meaningful route to self-determination for the Puerto Rican people under our federal system.

  Author: Dick Thornburgh

• For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe.

  Author: Mac Thornberry

• We are fans because the game also appeals to our local pride, our pleasure in thinking of ourselves as, yes, Americans but nonetheless different from residents of other towns, other states, other regions.

  Author: John Thorn

• Unauthorized access to computer systems is already a serious crime in a few states and is currently being addressed in many more state legislatures as well as Congress.

  Author: Ken Thompson

• I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.

  Author: Dylan Thomas

• Despite the negativity coming from the President's opponents, the United States remains fully committed to assisting the Iraqis in restoring security and rebuilding their nation.

  Author: Craig Thomas

• Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?

  Author: Cal Thomas

• The United States did not keep its promise to help us fight for freedom and it was in the same fight that the United States lost 50,000 of its young men.

  Author: Nguyen Thieu

• But the United States did not keep its word. Is an American's word reliable these days?

  Author: Nguyen Thieu

• Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally.

  Author: Charlize Theron

• You never know how you're going to be received, after all this time. The initial response we had was just overwhelming, particularly that tour of the States.

  Author: Roger Taylor

• Because the worst of all worlds is when you pretend like you have an immigration policy, you make coming into the United States without our permission illegal, and then you actually don't enforce it.

  Author: Tom Tancredo

• The issue of remittances where we have millions of Mexicans working in the United States sending back dollars. He said they send back 10 billion dollars a year.

  Author: Tom Tancredo

• We have to fight radical Islam wherever it exists. It's in Afghanistan, it's in Saudi Arabia, throughout the Middle-East in big numbers and it's in the United States.

  Author: Tom Tancredo

• Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.

  Author: Ice T

• In the 'Nike Economy,' there are no standards, no borders and no rules. Clearly, the global economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States.

  Author: John Sweeney

• I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers. And I thank God that President Bush has stated, we need a Constitutional amendment that states that marriage is between a man and a woman.

  Author: Jimmy Swaggart

• I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.

  Author: Ichiro Suzuki

• This country is armed to the teeth, and none of these African states could begin to attack South Africa.

  Author: Helen Suzman

• This is technology that will not go away. And to risk it moving into the hands of a terrorist group like al Qaeda or to other focused enemies of the United States, would have tragic consequences.

  Author: John Sununu

• If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you've probably waited too long.

  Author: John Sununu

• Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.

  Author: John Sununu

• Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State.

  Author: William Sumner

• The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our level of prosperity, it is time for them to catch up to our level of openness.

  Author: Larry Summers

• The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.

  Author: Arthur Sulzberger

• New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.

  Author: Simeon Strunsky

• It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain.

  Author: Josiah Strong

• Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself.

  Author: Josiah Strong

• A certain number of Americans are already in Peking and most of us here feel that it would be very useful for the United States and especially for the Left-wing progressive movement in the United States if groups of students such as you mention could make a tour of China.

  Author: Anna Strong

• Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States.

  Author: Anna Strong

• Voices were heard from the United States of America which made it clear that America wanted a peaceful and united Europe as a basis for mutual cooperation.

  Author: Gustav Stresemann

• The descendants of European immigrants do not govern the United States of America today. The foreign and domestic policies of the country are made by the Jews and their lackeys.

  Author: Julius Streicher

• The diplomatic representatives of the United States of America to other nations are almost entirely Jews.

  Author: Julius Streicher

• The president of the United States and his secretary of state were made honorary Hebrews.

  Author: Julius Streicher

• I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die.

  Author: Andrew Still

• I'm Jim Phillips, I have multiple personalities. I'm also a skindiver, a puppeteer, and I was the tenth president of the United States.

  Author: Ryan Stiles

• It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled.

  Author: Ezra Stiles

• There are reasons for believing that the English increase will far surpass others, and that the diffusion of the United States will ultimately produce the general population of America.

  Author: Ezra Stiles

• We live in such a sheltered environment in the United States. I've been fortunate enough to have traveled all over the world, and I've seen things you only read about and see on the news.

  Author: Payne Stewart

• Saskatchewan is much like Texas- except it's more friendly to the United States.

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

• 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.

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

• What we have, however, is an issue that has tremendous impact here at home, and we believe that Americans are starting to feel vulnerable, not just from what is going on around the world but right here in the United States.

  Author: Ted Stevens

• In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.

  Author: Gertrude Stein

• I thought we were to discuss a referral which we believe contains substantial and credible information of potential impeachable offenses by the President of the United States.

  Author: Kenneth Starr

• Our country, the United States of America, may be the world's largest economy and the world's only superpower, but we stretch ourselves dangerously thin by taking on commitments like Iraq with only a motley band of allies to share the burden.

  Author: John Spratt

• English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market.

  Author: Norman Spinrad

• When you're in the States and you're a writer and you've got money and you walk into a bank, you're a bum with money.

  Author: Norman Spinrad

• We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 million to show states how they might meet this more sophisticated approach.

  Author: Margaret Spellings

• We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does; and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about.

  Author: Margaret Spellings

• I don't think I would be getting any of these movies without that show, and that's a strong show, a great fan base and it's helped me out a lot. It took me out of Canada and brought me down to the states and gave me my career basically.

  Author: Scott Speedman

• Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.

  Author: Thomas Sowell

• Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States.

  Author: Terry Southern

• Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws.

  Author: George Soros

• Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties.

  Author: George Soros

• To my mind, there is a solution which has to do with democracy, because democratic governments are subject to the will of the people. So, if the people will it, you can actually create international institutions through the democratic states.

  Author: George Soros

• The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illegal substance in the United States and many other countries. But it did result in extensive costs and negative consequences.

  Author: George Soros

• Another question has been raised rather widely in Europe, in Japan as well as in the United States is what, to what extent will the euro become a reserve currency.

  Author: Robert Solomon

• In the United States, securities markets are much more developed than they are in Europe.

  Author: Robert Solomon

• On private transactions, I'll just go very quickly now, a major difference between the United States and Euroland is that in Europe banks are much more important in financial transactions than in the United States.

  Author: Robert Solomon

• To the extent that the United States has, I don't like the word hegemony, the United States has influence around the world, I don't think that's based on to any significant degree on the fact that countries use the dollar as their major reserve.

  Author: Robert Solomon

• The United States as usual has a sizable deficit in the current account of its balance of payments, trade account and other current accounts, current account items.

  Author: Robert Solomon

• Beyond that, states had to also have electronic voting machines that made it possible for people who are physically handicapped to vote in private... and the computerized voting machine made it very easy for, particularly, the blind.

  Author: DeForest Soaries

• When Congress passed the Help America Vote Act in 2002, I was thrilled to learn that the federal government would offer resources to all states to assist them in enhancing the voting process in America.

  Author: DeForest Soaries

• The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country.

  Author: Vic Snyder

• At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.

  Author: Olympia Snowe

• The United States spends more money on African aid than any nation on earth.

  Author: Tony Snow

• We thank thee for this opportunity to show our love for these heroes who have accomplished such wonders for the beloved United States, which was founded by noble and inspired men.

  Author: Lorenzo Snow

• They will sustain the constitution and laws and institutions of the United States, and be the champions of liberty and of that constitution when its integrity shall be threatened.

  Author: Lorenzo Snow

• Well, the U.S. is running a current account deficit; we are creating lots of investment opportunities in the United States that exceed our own domestic savings rates, so the issue here is to encourage higher savings rates in the United States.

  Author: John Snow

• If it was something that I really committed myself to, I don't think there's anything that could stop me becoming President of the United States.

  Author: Will Smith

• In Japan, it becomes a huge issue in terms of not just the government and its protest against the United States, but all different groups and all different peoples in Japan start to protest.

  Author: Martha Smith

• Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.

  Author: L. Smith

• I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.

  Author: L. Smith

• We built that into a wholesale business that became, really, one of the largest companies in the United States. We had success in building new markets, opening markets for competition, and that takes a personal toll.

  Author: Jeffrey Skilling

• It is vital that Iraq and the United States together send the clearest possible signal that those who commit acts of violence against American military forces and American civilians will not be rewarded with amnesty.

  Author: Ike Skelton

• Today nearly every combat brigade located within the United States would report that they are not ready for duty. They are at the lowest levels of readiness.

  Author: Ike Skelton

• Guard units in the U.S. are suffering severe equipment shortages which will affect their ability to respond to emergencies in their home States, such as Katrina.

  Author: Ike Skelton

• In all candor, the Court fails to perceive any reason for suspending the power of courts to get evidence and rule on questions of privilege in criminal matters simply because it is the president of the United States who holds the evidence.

  Author: John Sirica

• It's also much clearer how much damage the occupation of Iraq is doing to America's reputation and prestige around the world; and that's just starting now to hit home in the United States.

  Author: Peter Singer

• The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany.

  Author: Gordon Sinclair

• I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon.

  Author: Wallis Simpson

• Japan continues to work closely with the United States on the issue of the North Korean nuclear crisis and has played an important and constructive role in the Six-Party talks.

  Author: Michael Simpson

• Further, Japan is the second largest donor in Iraq after the United States, with over $5 billion dollars for humanitarian, infrastructure and reconstruction projects.

  Author: Michael Simpson

• We all read news stories about the difficulties and tensions that the United States has with our allies and even with coalition partners in Iraq, but we rarely read about the good news.

  Author: Michael Simpson

• I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.

  Author: Nina Simone

• For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States.

  Author: Bill Sienkiewicz

• There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.

  Author: Andrew Shue

• The Pacific had great hope that when the former President Mitered decided to halt nuclear testing, we had put behind us the issue of nuclear states testing their weapons in our Pacific region.

  Author: Jenny Shipley

• All the Baltic countries have been steadfast in support of allies of the United States since they gained their independence following the fall of the Soviet Union and have continued to be supportive in the ongoing war on terror.

  Author: John Shimkus

• As we all know, no crude oil refineries have been built in the United States since 1976. During that time, close to 100 ethanol refineries have been built.

  Author: John Shimkus

• States are looking for low-cost solutions that will enable better communication, while avoiding the danger in which the chain of command breaks down in emergencies. We do not want everyone talking to everyone else all the time.

  Author: John Shimkus

• Since the election, since the formation of a government, the death in Iraq has increased. The United States stands by, helpless to do anything about it. That's the reality, not George Bush's revisionist history!

  Author: Mark Shields

• When you run for president of the United States, everybody does the same thing in the campaign-they talk about veterans, how much they admire them, how grateful they are.

  Author: Mark Shields

• Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.

  Author: Eduard Shevardnadze

• True, other countries are helping us. Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.

  Author: Eduard Shevardnadze

• One out of every eight Pennsylvanians and one in every 720 people in the United States, as well as one out of every 50 engineers and one out of every four meteorologists has a Penn State degree.

  Author: Don Sherwood

• It would be great some day to have astronauts in a rover on Mars. But just about anyone except an oil company executive would say its more important to have 50 million solar powered vehicles in the United States.

  Author: Brad Sherman

• As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions.

  Author: Brad Sherman

• I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they are emotionally more receptive.

  Author: Archie Shepp

• It is changing the face of terrorism. It is basically bringing it to the United States, to our great citizens. We know the terrorists are barbaric and murderers that attack innocent civilians, as they did in this case.

  Author: Hugh Shelton

• I am not the President. Instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States.

  Author: Martin Sheen

• We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well.

  Author: Martin Sheen

• No, no, I never despair, because George Bush is not running the universe. He may be running the United States, he may be running the military, he may be running even the world, but he is not running the universe, he is not running the human heart.

  Author: Martin Sheen

• We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Britain.

  Author: Cindy Sheehan

• I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a war of terrorism against the world.

  Author: Cindy Sheehan

• We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality.

  Author: Wallace Shawn

• If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty.

  Author: Anna Shaw

• The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.

  Author: Al Sharpton

• The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.

  Author: Al Sharpton

• Iran, Libya and Syria are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons of mass destruction, and a successful American move in Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve.

  Author: Ariel Sharon

• We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from deporting an individual to a country where there is a reasonable expectation that he will be subjected to torture - physical, mental or otherwise.

  Author: Jonathan Shapiro

• The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far as Hoboken at that time.

  Author: Ben Shahn

• If the United States is to protect itself from the economic and the political threats created by this excessive dependence, we must reduce our reliance on foreign energy sources and on foreign oil as quickly and as efficiently as possible.

  Author: John Shadegg

• More than one-third of Mexicans in the United States own property in Mexico, nearly 80 percent send money home and 25 percent have a spouse in Mexico. Assimilation and becoming an American citizen are not the objective for many of them.

  Author: John Shadegg

• Most previous immigrants came to the United States to become Americans, with no intention of returning home. They relinquished their ties with their homeland. English was their key to prosperity, and they worked hard to master it.

  Author: John Shadegg

• Under current law, there is no additional penalty for someone who enters the United States illegally and then commits either a crime of violence or a drug trafficking offense. They simply come under the same penalty as we have in current law.

  Author: John Shadegg

• But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their coming in being foreseen and provided for.

  Author: William Seward

• I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations.

  Author: William Seward

• I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as speedily as they can.

  Author: William Seward

• Therefore, states are equal in natural rights.

  Author: William Seward

• The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit.

  Author: William Seward

• I mean to say that Congress can hereafter decide whether any states, slave or free, can be framed out of Texas. If they should never be framed out of Texas, they never could be admitted.

  Author: William Seward

• Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean.

  Author: William Seward

• He was a very private person, but then, you know, he belonged to the whole United States. The United States thought they owned Johnny Carson.

  Author: Doc Severinsen

• Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution.

  Author: Jeff Sessions

• The United States has the burden to lead for peace. And not just peace - we need peace with justice, a much harder goal.

  Author: Jeff Sessions

• If the Mets can win the World Series, the United States can get out of Vietnam.

  Author: Tom Seaver

• The UN could help the Iraqi government get on its feet and help the United States withdraw a bit more.

  Author: Brent Scowcroft

• Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.

  Author: Brent Scowcroft

• But, if you believe we should go around the world overturning regimes to make little United States, I don't agree with that, because I don't think we're capable of doing that.

  Author: Brent Scowcroft

• I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.

  Author: Brent Scowcroft

• In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.

  Author: Bobby Scott

• I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America.

  Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger

• There is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America.

  Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger

• Last year, customs officials screened only five percent of the 11 million cargo containers entering the United States. That rate is both unacceptable and dangerous to our national and economic interests.

  Author: Allyson Schwartz

• Success in the United States is not an entitlement in China. You have to go there and earn it, and earn it the right way.

  Author: Howard Schultz

• Both referred to the Affordable Care Act, which is the accurate title of the health care reform law, as 'Obamacare.' That is a disparaging reference to the President of the United States, it is meant as a disparaging reference to the President of the United States.

  Author: Debbie Schultz

• An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish.

  Author: Erwin Schrodinger

• There are thousands of Ten Commandments plaques or monuments all over the country, and lawsuits to remove them have popped up in more than a dozen states.

  Author: Phyllis Schlafly

• The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.

  Author: Phyllis Schlafly

• No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.

  Author: Phyllis Schlafly

• In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity.

  Author: 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.

  Author: Adam Schiff

• And if that's what the American people want, then that's what the policy should be, of course. But the idea that anything in the United States is too sensitive to discuss or too dangerous to discuss is really, I think, absurd.

  Author: Michael Scheuer

• No one should be surprised when Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda detonate a weapon of mass destruction in the United States. I don't believe in inevitability. But I think it's pretty close to being inevitable.

  Author: Michael Scheuer

• What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs.

  Author: Robert Scheer

• Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America.

  Author: Jan Schakowsky

• Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound or sensible policy.

  Author: Jan Schakowsky

• You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out.

  Author: Antonin Scalia

• If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift'; they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains'; they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.'

  Author: Alexei Sayle

• Know the official post office abbreviations for all 50 states without having to consult a list.

  Author: Marilyn Savant

• That is what has happened to the United States in the international economic scene. We have deteriorated into a debtor status so that we are now dependent upon the kindness of strangers. That is not where the world's leading power should find itself.

  Author: Paul Sarbanes

• We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States.

  Author: Susan Sarandon

• I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?

  Author: Jose Saramago

• Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.

  Author: Paul Samuelson

• Tennis is seen all around the world; if I am home or anywhere in the country, United States, people will stare.

  Author: Pete Sampras

• The blood and sweat shed by United States and United Nations troops proved to be the prime mover behind the realisation of freedom throughout the post-war period.

  Author: Kim Sam

• By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.

  Author: Sallust

• The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.

  Author: Pierre Salinger

• He's the president of the United States. He's got to work 14 to 16 hours a day, run foreign and domestic policy. If he's got time for mistresses after all that, what the hell difference does it make?

  Author: Pierre Salinger

• A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.

  Author: Pierre Salinger

• United States is a great Country and has its effective role on the international arena, so we have to boost our relations with it, in order to achieve peace and stability in our region and the world.

  Author: Ali Saleh

• Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.

  Author: Anwar Sadat

• The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments is the rule.

  Author: Jeffrey Sachs

• The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union. Every one of those 15 new states faced a profound historical, economic, financial, social and political challenge.

  Author: Jeffrey Sachs

• In turn, more physicians, hospitals, and other health care providers are severely limiting their practices, moving to other states, or simply not providing care.

  Author: Jim Ryun

• The United States is not a nation based upon race, creed, or religion - we are a nation based upon our loyalty and allegiance to our country and her principles.

  Author: Jim Ryun

• With this announcement today, the Army has made it clear what we have known all along - that Fort Riley is truly the crown jewel of the United States Army.

  Author: Jim Ryun

• The oath of renunciation and allegiance is a solemn vow taken by thousands of immigrants each year to become a United States citizen. The oath is the fundamental statement of allegiance to the United States, and this allegiance is what unites America.

  Author: Jim Ryun

• The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy.

  Author: Harold Russell

• We have tried to make it clear that the United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it is kicked in the flanks.

  Author: Dean Rusk

• The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks.

  Author: David Rusk

• Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.

  Author: J. Rushton

• The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.

  Author: J. Rushton

• Everything that I will ever accomplish, I owe to God, to my parent's sacrifices, and to the United States of America.

  Author: Marco Rubio

• There's never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize that our rights come from God, not from our government.

  Author: Marco Rubio

• There are obviously legal restrictions on what you can do on TV in the States, as there are everywhere.

  Author: Dave Rowntree

• Europe and the U.K. are yesterday's world. Tomorrow is in the United States.

  Author: R. Rowland

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