Top 1200 States Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

He was a very private person, but then, you know, he belonged to the whole United States. The United States thought they owned Johnny Carson.

The Solicitor General is responsible for overseeing appellate litigation on behalf of the United States and with representing the United States in the Supreme Court.

President Obama has been clear about the future that the United States seeks... when it comes to the Asia-Pacific, the United States is all in.

I think the President's decision to withdraw the United States, to keep a campaign promise in Iraq, without leaving a stay-behind force was a mistake, and I hear that from veterans in Wyoming and from parents who lost children fighting in Iraq. We're seeing it, though, around the world. When we, the United States leads a vacuum anywhere, that emboldens others to go in, when there is no sense of deterrence by the United States that lets bad actors move and fill the void.

I fail to see what dangers surrounding states can see in the ideas of the Soviet people if these states are really firmly seated in their saddles.

The fiscal crisis faced by the states especially in the light of the pandemic could lead to serious problems between the Centre and states going forward unless some Constitutional remedy is found.

I'm representing the United States. And I'm representing the United States, and my office is representing the United States day after day in front of the court. And I think it's the right thing to do, to carry that out with some dignity and some respect for the process and respect for the institution. And so that led me to just, you know, move the dial a little bit in the direction of calmness.

Of course, Soviet people would like to see the face of surrounding states changed, but that is the business of the surrounding states.

Things like water and sewage systems require states in a large-scale society, but states are also a good mechanism for dealing with health care, education, public transportation, and infrastructure.

People in red states and blue states can agree that we are a nation blessed with extraordinary natural wealth and beauty, which we would be foolish to waste; therefore conservation and efficiency are values we all can share.

We're all living in different states and we all have different systems within those states. Even on the most basic personal level, it affects me.

The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution of the United States.

I like the idea of the states to go out and the states to take fifty laboratories of the best thoughts and create best ideas possible.

I like coming to the United States because the United States played an important role in my life.

Meanwhile, there are some traditional battleground states - like Ohio and Iowa - that are becoming older, whiter and less educated. That's turning them from true battlegrounds into more reliable red states.

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

It appalls me that the people who decide what Americans will be watching on the tube have never been to the United States. Not the real United States.

There’s something very dangerous happening in states across the country. A wave of legislation, introduced in more than two dozen states, would allow people to discriminate against their neighbors.

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

We're going to appoint great justices to the United States Supreme Court to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States.

I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and perhaps to liberty itself (paradox though it may seem) to let the slavery of the other states alone; while, on the other hand, I hold it to be equally clear, that we should never knowingly lend ourselves directly or indirectly, to prevent that slavery from dying a natural death--to find new places for it to live in, when it can no longer exist in the old.

But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there.

The United States is for a two-state solution. The United States wants to see the Israelis and Palestinians come together.

Why doesn't anyone address the substantive question of why other states blatantly interfere in Israel's internal affairs? Israel does not meddle in the affairs of other states in a similar way, so why do other countries feel entitled to do this to Israel? These actions violate Israeli sovereignty and I expect European Union member states to act differently.

What happened in the United States election is not a matter for the United Kingdom, it is a matter for the United States and the United States authorities.

One reason the Founding Fathers thought that states should have two senators was so that smaller states wouldn't get run over and could bring their interests to the attention of the Senate more broadly.

While there are few problems in today's world that the United States can solve alone, there are even fewer that can be solved without the United States.

The United States is my subject, but as Hawthorne once wrote, "the United States are suited for many admirable purposes, but not to live in."

There are ten thousand states of mind. Most people spend their entire lives confined to a few of these states of mind.

I have lived in the United States and I know the might of their industrial complex. The United States is a sleeping giant and I am afraid that our attack has awakened it.

There are ten thousand states of mind. The culmination of the states of mind you have gone through will create your next lifetime.

It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United States.

Brazil is in a solid position. In the past, if the United States sneezed, we caught pneumonia. Today, if the United States sneezes, we sneeze too.

The several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government

Nations decide upon their own destinies, and those choices are not the business of the United States if they do not threaten the United States.

We have extradited terrorists to the United States in the past. And we expect the same thing to be done by the United States.

Strong states and blocs of strong states are the only source of power and legitimacy capable of driving an international agenda in today's world.

This Court repeatedly has recognized that the whole subject of the domestic relations of husband and wife belongs to the laws of the States and not to the laws of the United States.

The 21st Amendment gives the states the right to decide what the drinking ages should be and other aspects relative to alcoholic beverages, and I support that. As a United States senator, I want to weigh in - this is not my agenda.

The ongoing migration of persons to the United States in violation of our laws is a serious national problem detrimental to the interests of the United States.

There is one source of injustice in Cuba: The Castro regime. It is not United States policies and it is not the United States embargo.

This is the political culture of the United States, which one should accept as is. The United States is a great country and it deserves non-interference and no third-party comments.

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.

The most immediate task is to make certain that no state or combination of states gains the capacity to expel the United States from Eurasia or even to diminish significantly its decisive arbitration role.

Then we can help these failed states turn around and give their people a better life. This, too, is a critical part of this global war on terrorism, and Canada and the United States are together.

Virginia States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen. Those who preach most frequently about states' rights today are not those seeking the protection of the individual citizen, but his exploitation. The time is long past — if indeed it ever existed — when we should permit the noble concept of states' rights to be betrayed.

When it comes to international trade, the question is, who is going to write the rules, the United States or China? And my vote is the United States.

Even illegals are not coming into the United States now because they can't find jobs. It's how desperate the job situation is in the United States.

States of soul rightly expressed, as the poet expresses them in moments of pure inspiration, retain forever the power of creating like states. It is this that makes genuine literature a vital force.

Same sex marriage must be decided by the states, and by the people in the states, not by judges and not even by legislators, but by the people themselves.

As the Coronavirus spread from Wuhan, China, to the United States, most governors quickly acquiesced to the media's demand that they force a governmental shutdown of their states in order to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed.

The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor.

You look at the states [Barack] Obama won and wonder, well, where would Hillary Clinton have a problem and where does Donald Trump have problems? And the truth is, Donald Trump is not showing strength in any of the big states that he would need in order to actually get to 270. And Hillary Clinton is showing herself to be remarkably stable in all the states that she needs.

When I am president of the United States of America, there will never be any cap-and-trade in the United States.

Some newer writers worry about books set in Canada having a big appeal, but it has never been an issue for me. I haven't wanted to write in the States because I don't know the States.

In the Islamic world, the U.S. is seen in two quite different ways. One view recognizes what an extraordinary country the U.S. is. Every Arab or Muslim that I know is tremendously interested in the United States. Many of them send their children here for education. Many of them come here for vacations. They do business here or get their training here. The other view is of the official United States, the United States of armies and interventions.

I believe deeply that it's very important to the United States, to the economic health of the United States, that we maintain a strong dollar.

[Maxim] Litvinov signed his letter not in private capacity but as representative of the state, just as did President [Franklin] Roosevelt. Their agreement represents an agrement between two states. Signing this agreement both Litvinov and President Roosevelt as the representatives of two states have in mind the activities of the agents of those states who should not and will not interfere in each other's internal affairs.

And being forceful with the United States and not letting the United States have its way, is always good politics in the Russian domestic environment.

When human rights are systematically abused, it raises the question whether it may be legitimate in some circumstances for the international community to intervene within individual states as well as in conflicts between states.