Top 1200 Mississippi State Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I'm not a liberal elite who was educated in the northeast, for example, I'm just a kid from Mississippi.

There is only one person in the State Department that can sign off on State Department personnel being in a facility that doesn't meet security standards, and it's the secretary of state.

Hopefully 'Mississippi Grind' will be good in the theater.

If there is a State, there must be domination of one class by another and, as a result, slavery; the State without slavery is unthinkable - and this is why we are the enemies of the State.

Mississippi is a welcoming duty station for servicemembers and their working spouses.

The degree of political pressure to make MGNREGA jobs available varies massively from state to state - which is why access to MGNREGA jobs is worse in a very poor state like Bihar than in a richer state like Andhra Pradesh.

The funny response to 'One Mississippi' continues to be that people don't know what is true and what's fiction.

The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.'

The conditions in the prisons operated by the Mississippi Department of Corrections are absolutely inhumane and unconstitutional.

When you're from Weir, Mississippi, almost everywhere you go looks like the big city.

[T]he mass-man sees in the State an anonymous power, and feeling himself, like it, anonymous, he believes that the State is something of his own. Suppose that in the public life of a country some difficulty, conflict, or problem presents itself, the mass-man will tend to demand that the State intervene immediately and undertake a solution directly with its immense and unassailable resources. This is the gravest danger that to-day threatens civilisation: State intervention; the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State.

It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud.

Pakistan is not a unified country. In large parts of the country, the state is regarded as a Punjabi state, not their (the people's) state.

The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is moonshine, for if that were true then it would degrade the state to send men to war... The state, in truth, is degraded in its very nature: a few butcheries cannot do it any further damage.

I'd spent summers growing up in Mississippi, so I had an idea of what the South is like.

There are a million Negroes in Mississippi. I think they'll take care of me.

Growing up in Mississippi, I realized that it was separate and unequal and all that, but it was still a safe place.

I know lots of people in Mississippi who have lost their jobs trying to register to vote.

America is thataway, Mr. Lincoln," laughed Davis, pointing north. "You're in Mississippi now.

In the "Personal Story" segment tonight, the state of Oregon is extremely liberal in its state government and judicial system.That state has lenient drug laws, including wide access to medical marijuana.

I'm the only candidate running for governor that opposes Obamacare expansion in Mississippi.

The importance of the Army Corps of Engineers to public safety and economic activity in Mississippi can't be understated.

I'm a black writer from Mississippi. That's what I most consider myself.

The Coast Guard has a strong presence in Mississippi and on its waterways.

I am from Brookhaven, a small town in Southwest Mississippi.

Our main conclusions about the state are that a minimal state, limited, to the narrow functions of protection against force, theft, fraud, enforcement of contracts, and so on, is justified, but any more extensive state will violate persons' rights not to be forced to do certain things, and is unjustified; and that the minimal state is inspiring as well as right.

My dad is in Mississippi. He exited the Navy and made a ton of money as an entrepreneur.

The state has got to be its own master. The modalities of civic life may not be prescribed for it through any power standing outside of that state - be it a private person or be it a community superior, collateral, or subordinate to that state.

That Amendment requires the state to be a neutral in its relations with groups of religious believers and nonbelievers; it does not require the state to be their adversary. State power is no more to be used so as to handicap religions than it is to favor them.

We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.

I grew up by the Mississippi River, and I would swim in that as a kid.

I initiated the State's investigation of Governor Blagojevich and have prosecuted public officials, including a sitting democratic state representative and democratic State's Attorney.

Mark Twain gave us an insight into the life on the Mississippi at the turn of the century.

Connecticut has some of the best parks of any state in the country, and the State Parks system provides numerous opportunities across the state to explore the outdoors.

The state sovereignty is key here in the Electoral College - and if you're going to start divvying up the power of each state's elections, you are destroying state sovereignty.

The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise.

I’m not a liberal elite who was educated in the northeast, for example, I’m just a kid from Mississippi.

It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state.

This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.

What we have really now is a one-state outcome in which Israel is the one and only state between the Jordan River and the sea. It can do whatever it wants virtually throughout the area. But that's not the kind of a state that's going to be a basis for peace and stability in the region.

The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves

I did not believe what I was told about being poor and black and female in Mississippi in 1954.

I once paddled a canoe the length of the Mississippi River all the way from Itasca to New Orleans.

State Farm is pleased to support the Common Core State Standards Initiative. State by State adoption of these standards is an important step towards maintaining our country s competitive edge. With a skilled and prepared workforce, the business community will be better prepared to face the challenges of the international marketplace.

I want the State of Israel to remain a Zionist, Jewish and democratic state. There is nothing 'far' or 'ultra' about those ideals. I also advocate the creation of a viable Palestinian state.

The gifts of God should be enjoyed by all citizens in Mississippi.

From cutting back on state contracts to reducing the number of state cars, We're making state government smaller, smarter, more efficient, and more accountable.

It's already 95 degrees outside. Mississippi got the most unorganized weather in the nation.

I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did.

The challenges that young people are mobilizing against oppressive societies all over the globe are being met with a state-sponsored violence that is about more than police brutality. This is especially clear in the United States, given its transformation from a social state to a warfare state, from a state that once embraced a semblance of the social contract to one that no longer has a language for justice, community and solidarity - a state in which the bonds of fear and commodification have replaced the bonds of civic responsibility and democratic vision.

It is a great honor to serve Mississippi as its first female United States Senator.

Because all existence is founded upon the ever-present state of union, everything already exists in a state of tranquility. However, this state of tranquility is masked from us by our assumption that there is a separation, that there is a problem.

My father is from Mississippi, and I heard stories of racial injustice my whole life.

Against individualism, the Fascist conception is for the State... Liberalism denied the State in the interests of the particular individual; Fascism reaffirms the State as the true reality of the individual.

I want to separate from the Palestinians. I want them to have their independent, separate state on a contiguous territory, and I want Israel to exist, of course, as a Jewish state in its own territory, as an independent state in its own territory. The Palestinian state, the Israeli state, separate. This is my dream.

Our parks are a major part of the state's tourism industry, and this will allow us to make them even more attractive to in-state and out-of-state visitors.

In Mississippi the important thing is hooch, not bar equipment.

However, given the fact that the State has a controlling stake in the company [Rosneft], it might not be the best course of action when one company under State control buys another one fully owned by the State. This is one point.

Air service is an important asset for rural communities in Mississippi.

There is no doubt in my mind that we need to spend more money on roads and bridges in Mississippi.