Top 1200 State Government Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

It is as disastrous to true government in the state, and home, to teach all womankind to submit to the authority of man, as divinely ordained, as it is to teach all mankind to bow down to the authority of kings and Popes, as divinely ordained.

The President doesn't just appoint the Secretary of State, he appoints the Secretary of State, and then the Congress votes. And if the Congress approves that person, that person becomes Secretary of State.

I think that peace will require two states, a Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state.

If state protects the rights of people, they start respecting the state.

So I promise you that this State of the State, like a good pizza, will be delivered in 25 minutes or less.

One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.

State assaults on the separation of church and state are nothing new.

I come from a state in India that is a matrilineal state, Kerala. And so women really are seen as very powerful.

As long-term institutions, I am totally against dictatorships. But a dictatorship may be a necessary system for a transitional period... Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism. My personal impression - and this is valid for South America - is that in Chile, for example, we will witness a transition from a dictatorial government to a liberal government.

The government doesn't run the economy. The economy is run by the private sector. The job of the president is to ensure we [the state] have policies that allow the private sector to grow and prosper.

Saudia Arabia takes in half a trillion dollars every year in oil revenue, and the country has a population smaller than New York state, but when your system of government is an eleventh century monarchy, someone's going to end up poor, and it's not gonna be the guy whose first name is King.

The state of the industry is much like the state of politics. It's too middle-aged, white, and male.

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. ... The time has come to consider how we might bring about a separation, as complete as possible, between Science and Government in all countries. I call this the disestablishment of science, in the same sense in which the churches have been disestablished and have become independent of the state.

Washington is nicknamed "The Evergreen State" because it sounds better than "The Incessant Nagging Drizzle State."

It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Virtually everything that government does, of any significance, is conducted behind an extreme wall of secrecy. The very few leaks that we’ve had over the last decade are basically the only ways that we’ve had to learn what our government is doing.

There certainly are those who worship the state much as divinities are worshipped. Not just the state but even leaders.

The government can always rescue the markets or interfere with contract law whenever it deems convenient with little or no apparent cost. (Investors believe this now and, worse still, the government believes it as well. We are probably doomed to a lasting legacy of government tampering with financial markets and the economy, which is likely to create the mother of all moral hazards. The government is blissfully unaware of the wisdom of Friedrich Hayek: "The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.")

I am for reformation by emigration. The emigration of the mind before the revolution of the state. The soul and mind must be free before one has a right to be a member of a free government.

I would like to see real peace and a state of Israel living peacefully alongside a state of Palestine.

Cats sleep in a state of total abandon, and I find that state very interesting in people as well.

No state more extensive than the minimal state can be justified.

Buddhahood is a state free of all obstructions to knowledge and disturbing emotions. It is the state in which the mind is fully evolved.

There is no democrats or republicans, right or left, red state or blue state. We are all one. And we are all unified against Mexicans.

My staff in Washington and in the state will be dedicated to constituent services and the best representation for our state.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

I support the administrative rules promulgated by the Department of the Interior which permit a Native Hawaiian government to establish a relationship with the U.S. government. If Native Hawaiians form a government consistent with those rules and seek federal recognition, I would likely support the request.

Whatever state I am in, I see it as a state of mind to be accepted as it is.

The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.

When you are in touch with the Inner Being then irrespective of the outer state, you remain in a perpetual state of happiness!

I think most Muslims are incredibly upset with the state of America's foreign policy today and the state of the world.

I think it might honestly be time for the Sunshine State to officially change its motto to the Worst State.

The state within a state is hiding mostly in plain sight.

There is absolute truth in anarchism and it is to be seen in its attitude to the sovereignty of the state and to every form of state absolutism. [...] The religious truth of anarchism consists in this, that power over man is bound up with sin and evil, that a state of perfection is a state where there is no power of man over man, that is to say, anarchy. The Kingdom of God is freedom and the absence of such power... the Kingdom of God is anarchy.

Texas is not really a red state - it's just a non-voting state.

Where would you like to live? In a state of conflict or a conflicted state?

The state is and has been in history a source of disorder and chaos, and this problem gets worse the more the state grows.

In no way have we contemplated the intervention of the army in tasks that belong to police at the different levels of government. What is contemplated .. is support from the army in these tasks but not in direct actions that correspond to municipal, state and federal police.

When you stand in the present, you become thoughtlessly aware. And this state is the first state you achieve, and this is the state where you become absolutely peaceful within yourself. The peace is so great that you enjoy your peaceful existence. Not only that, but you become the source of peace. Wherever you go, you emit peace.

Our government does not exist to decide the rights, nor to grant them. Our government exists to protect them. And that is why we have a constitution that limits the power of the federal government to a few specific, but important things and we have abandoned that. We have abandoned it in both political parties.

The greatest bulwark against an overreaching government, as tyrants know, is a religious population. That is because religious people form communities of interest adverse to government control of their lives; religious communities rely on their families and each other rather than an overarching government utilizing force.

It is not for the State Department or even the Secretary of State to say when and how the resources of the American people will be spent.

We want to channelize the youth so that the state benefits from them and help Uttar Pradesh become a developed state.

The free state offers what a police state denies - the privacy of the home, the dignity and peace of mind of the individual.

It is the church's job, as Dr. [Martin Luther] King says, to be the conscience of the state, not the chaplain of the state.

To state that lethal force should not be used without a proper legal justification is to state the obvious.

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

California is not just the Golden State. We are also the Internet State.

I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I've been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level.

Palestine isn't a state when it concerns statehood. When it comes to warring, it's a state, yes? The Palestinians, they live in a country, for the purpose of war.

Arkansas is a very small state, and it's even a smaller field when you break it down to Republicans in this state.

Parents would rather have their son get all-state than his team win the state championship.

We Americans think we enjoy self-government. We have all the trappings of self-government, like elections. But in reality, we have gradually lost many of our rights to govern ourselves. We have the form of self-government, but only some of the substance. We are, in a sense, a nation run by a handful of judges who often enforce, not the law, but their personal opinions.

If childhood is still a state, it is now chiefly a state of confusion.

Every state need not start with state policing if they can't fund it.

There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of this understanding.

In our election manifesto is: we keep the right to create money and to bring in circulation, for the cause of the government ... Those who do not share this view, reply us to the issue of paper money is for the banks, the government should stay out of the banking business. I agree with Jefferson's opinion ... and just like him I say again: the issue of money is a matter for the government and the banks should stay out of government activity.

The secrets of alchemy exist to transform mortals from a state of suffering and ignorance to a state of enlightenment and bliss.

Only a system of state-controlled schools can be free to teach whatever the welfare of the State may demand.

I like living in California. I think it's the best state, although we're supposedly the most hated state of all.

It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword that gleams in the hands of the heroes of liberty resembles that with which the henchmen of tyranny are armed ... The government of the revolution is liberty's despotism against tyranny.