Quotes on states

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

Author: Spiro Agnew

It is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals.

Author: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.

Author: Aaron Allston

I think the United States is way behind the times.

Author: Christopher Atkins

This is the task, I think, of a letter movement. But it should be set up only in states where a significant response can be achieved, for a letter movement necessarily presupposes a strong organization.

Author: Fredrik Bajer

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.

Author: Michael Barnes

Many transition states have a well-defined preferred geometrical requirement.

Author: Derek Barton

I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese aliens into the United States about eight or nine ago.

Author: Rand Beers

And we have the most scrutinized election system in the United States, and we have met every test.

Author: Kenneth Blackwell

A number of the major terrorist captures we have made, the terrorist operations designed for the United States that we have interrupted, were enabled by the terrorist tracking program.

Author: Kit Bond

The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.

Author: Belle Boyd

It's proper and appropriate to remind the Chinese about what they get out of solid relations with the United States.

Author: John Breaux

When the new wave of terrorism came on the modern world, which is the late 1960s, early 1970s, I think we spent about a decade, the United States and our allies, trying to figure out how to deal with it.

Author: Paul Bremer

Ohio is one of only two states that have a minimum wage below the federal level of $5.15 an hour.

Author: Sherrod Brown

Proliferation of nuclear weapons to terrorist organisations is far more dangerous than proliferation of nuclear weapons to states, even states like North Korea.

Author: John Bruton

Especially today, given the tight fiscal situation that many States and localities face, the use of transportation facilities that pay for themselves without additional Federal funding is essential.

Author: Michael Burgess

My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met.

Author: Emanuel Celler

Currently, most States do not recognize within their borders concealed carry permits issued in other States.

Author: Howard Coble

The opportunities that Gorbachev created for international relations have also been missed, perhaps even lost - here, however, primarily because of the United States.

Author: Stephen Cohen

But ya have to make videos in the States. Usually ours just look too serious. We haven't got it together.

Author: Evan Dando

In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States.

Author: Edwidge Danticat

Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.

Author: Demosthenes

In The States I would have no edge, no advantage at all.

Author: Nigel Dennis

The whole nuclear thing is a terrible mess and it's hard for me to understand why it is that we, the United States, seem to be the only ones that are really particularly concerned about it and prepared to do something.

Author: Lawrence Eagleburger

No, I believe in the good will of the United States' administration.

Author: Bulent Ecevit

No, the United States does not target civilians.

Author: Douglas Feith

The United States is our most important ally. They helped us many times. Without the United States, the unification or German democratisation after the Nazi period would have been much more complicated, or almost impossible.

Author: Joschka Fischer

I think it's very important that the United States keeps out of the local electoral process in Mexico.

Author: Vicente Fox

I have this cozy house here and I get three pensions from the States. I've done nicely.

Author: Jonathan Frid

What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.

Author: Carlos Fuentes

I've had more than 12,000 emails from the United States. It's not easy in the United States to find out the email address of a British parliamentarian.

Author: George Galloway

There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.

Author: James Garfield

The real problem was not the troops; the real problem was that only the United States had the infrastructure to do the transport of troops with big planes, and then who will pay?

Author: Boutros Ghali

I think that in the near term the only threat to demand is some form of recession here in the United States.

Author: Andrew Gould

I don't think I will ever do any tours again in the United States. I rather think that that's over with.

Author: Norman Granz

Today, barely 5 percent of all containers coming into the United States through our ports are scanned.

Author: Alcee Hastings

The United States is a beautiful place, you know?

Author: Billy Higgins

We're only one of a few states that have maintained our Triple-A bond rating from the major rating agencies.

Author: Bob Holden

Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.

Author: Calamity Jane

I never knew when I was gong to leave. I might be walking over to a kid's house, then of all a sudden I would just stick out my thumb and hitchhike across three states.

Author: Rickie Jones

Stuart Davis has more to do with what the United States is like than Hopper.

Author: Donald Judd

Any confrontation, such as a verbal one with the United States, would be harmful for everybody.

Author: Alain Juppe

Never, ever deal with terrorists. Hunt them down and, more important, mercilessly punish those states and groups that fund, arm, support, or simply allow their territories to be used by the terrorists with impunity.

Author: Meir Kahane

I have often heard it said that the United States is isolated and is not interested in European affairs. I assure you that this is not the case.

Author: Frank Kellogg

Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own them to masters who do not; and it does not require much demonstration to prove that their estate is not always the more gracious.

Author: Fanny Kemble

The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

Author: John Kennedy

I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.

Author: Jeane Kirkpatrick

By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam.

Author: Nguyen Ky

I would be with those who say the hierarchy in the United States has badly mishandled this whole situation.

Author: William Leahy

I've seen every highway in the United States, and they all look alike to me.

Author: Loretta Lynn

By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world.

Author: Roger Mahony

Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them.

Author: Leonard Maltin

To be involved in a senior tournament back in the States is very satisfying.

Author: John McEnroe

When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.

Author: Vince McMahon

The White House looked into a plan that would allow illegal immigrants to stay in the United States. The plan called for a million Mexicans to marry a million of our ugliest citizens.

Author: Dennis Miller

California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated number of illegal alien residents in California was about 2.2 million, or nearly 32 percent of the total number of illegal immigrants in the United States.

Author: Gary Miller

I was the United States Attorney for Maine for three years, and then was appointed a federal judge.

Author: George Mitchell

Yet, in 1850 nearly all the railroads in the United States lay east of the Mississippi River, and all of them, even when they were physically mere extensions of one another, were separately owned and separately managed.

Author: John Moody

The welfare system in the United States is vile.

Author: Daniel Moran

I still happen to think the United States is the greatest place in the world to invest.

Author: Don Nickles

If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?

Author: Richard Nixon

John Wayne was one of the greatest ambassadors for the United States that ever lived.

Author: Maureen O'Hara

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.

Author: Robert Orben

The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.

Author: Colin Powell

I know quite a few farmers all over the United States who have tried this and have said the opposite, that they have to use more herbicides, not less. The same holds true with BT.

Author: Jeremy Rifkin

When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.

Author: Will Rogers

Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade.

Author: Zhu Rongji

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.

Author: Franklin Roosevelt

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

Author: Sallust

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

Author: Antonin Scalia

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

Author: Erwin Schrodinger

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

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

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

Author: Tom Seaver

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

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

Author: Bill Sienkiewicz

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

Author: L. Smith

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

Author: Adlai Stevenson

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

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

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

Author: Jacques Villeneuve

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

The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

Author: Walt Whitman

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

Author: Adolfo Zinser