States Quotes - page 6

In the United States, the last recorded clitoridectomy for curing masturbation was performed in 1948--on a five year old girl. (Eve Ensler)
And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian. View quote
Hjalmar Branting
Modern techniques have torn down state frontiers, both economical and intellectual. The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers, The mountains and the endless plain - All, all the stretch of these great green states - And make America again! View quote
Langston Hughes
I think the primary message to the world is that the United States is going to remain the strongest military power in the world. View quote
Leon Panetta
The United States is going to defend itself under any circumstances. View quote
Leon Panetta
The United States has to have the capability to deal with more than one enemy at one time and be able to confront them and win. View quote
Leon Panetta
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. View quote
Burt Ward
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. View quote
Edward Thorndike
I simply cannot stand by and watch a right guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States come under attack from those who either can't understand it, don't like the sound of it, or find themselves too philosophically squeamish to see why it remains the first among equals: Because it is the right we turn to when all else fails. That's why the Second Amendment is America's first freedom. View quote
Charlton Heston
In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States. (Albert Bushnell Hart)
And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future. View quote
Aleksander Kwasniewski
The attacks in Jordan, just like those before it in Indonesia, Egypt, Spain and the United States, demonstrate that terrorism does not discriminate by race, ethnicity or region. Instead, terrorists indiscriminately target those seeking to live a peaceful, loving and free life. View quote
Allyson Schwartz
My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil. View quote
Arto Lindsay
I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral. View quote
Bianca Jagger
The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995. View quote
Charles Bass
I think the United States is way behind the times. View quote
Christopher Atkins
States get to improve transportation infrastructure; that creates economic development, puts people back to work and, most important, enhances safety and improves local communities. View quote
Corrine Brown
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. View quote
Dick Thornburgh
I still happen to think the United States is the greatest place in the world to invest. View quote
Don Nickles
And the whole world, the whole world that believes in freedom, whether you're talking about personal freedom, economic freedom, religious freedom, they look to the United States for leadership; and you're part of that leadership. (Don Nickles)
Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America. View quote
Eliot Engel
Instead, California is one of only 10 states that provides in-state college and university tuition to illegal immigrants. That's grossly unfair to a legal high school student who moves out of California for a year, then returns to attend college. View quote
Elton Gallegly
God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it. View quote
Ely Culbertson
The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself. View quote
Emanuel Celler