States Quotes - page 2

Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests, that the United States is, or should or could be the global gendarme. (Robert McNamara)
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. View quote
Al Gore
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. View quote
Anaïs Nin
Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation. View quote
Fatos Nano
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. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity-unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity. View quote
Henry Clay
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked. View quote
Bob Dylan
Look at the history of the (United States). The history of the country is basically what? Get something for nothing, right? Take, kill. They invaded the country, they robbed the land of the American Indians, they killed almost all of them off... That's the history of the United States. A despicable country. View quote
Bobby Fischer
Russians can give you arms, but only the United States can give you a solution. View quote
Anwar Sadat
I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one. (Oliver North)
The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States. View quote
Salmon P. Chase
Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence. View quote
Milton Friedman
Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here. View quote
Dan Quayle
The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction. View quote
Benjamin Tucker
[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. View quote
Ariel Sharon
I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to. View quote
Dave Barry
There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America. View quote
Barack Obama
We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States. View quote
Barack Obama
When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic. View quote
Barack Obama
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders. View quote
Nelson Mandela
There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America. View quote
Otto von Bismarck
It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases. View quote
Larry Wall