Quotes About State

The bedrock of this country are immigration and, really, a great separation between church and state.

I was one of the founding members of State Legislators for Legal Immigration.

I grew up in a border state. I think immigration is an essential part of American history and American culture.

If the federal government will not enforce the immigration laws, our state and local law enforcement should be empowered to do so.

If your selling access to somebody who is a future president or current secretary of state, or if there's an implication that you are, that matters.

Let me share some facts with you about the law in most of our country. California is in many ways a little different from the rest of the world, and California has better gun laws than many states, although California's need to be improved.

Due to enhanced freedom to police, the law and order situation in the state has improved.

Criminalizing behavior, if it's part of the heritage of this state, is in my opinion a bad idea.

Conflicts, even just ones, which in the end can come at the expense of the State of Israel, are things that we must be very cautious about and hold back on personally.

The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources.

Catalan society is divided. There's one bloc - which isn't a majority - that backs pro-independence parties. But there's also a bloc that doesn't, which favours the current state, the statute of autonomy, and either increased decentralisation or even increased recentralisation.

If Madrid does not want an accord, and the majority of Catalans want an independent state, how can you avoid that?

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.

a state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory.… The state is considered the sole source of the 'right' to use violence.

As a single-payer advocate, I believe that at the end of the day, if a state goes forward and passed an effective single-payer program, it will demonstrate that you can provide quality health care to every man, woman and child in a more cost-effective way.

No state can remain indifferent to another state's wresting from its people more of their rights. It must make a corresponding draft on its own people's rights, or else pay dearly for its neglect to put itself on a level... A Power which interferes with its people only in certain respects cannot increase its warlike potential beyond certain limits. To pass them, it must revolutionize those respects and give itself fresh prerogatives.

The inability of a state body to accept factual criticism and to make amends should worry every Israeli citizen.

The state of severance of union with sorrow is known by the name of yoga.

When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.

George Shultz, who will one day serve as Reagan's secretary of state, will call this "the most important foreign policy decision Reagan has ever made.

The capital city of Grozny in Chechnya was reduced completely to rubble, and Putin thought this was worthwhile because it kept the state together.

It has become increasingly difficult for states or the federal government to apply the death penalty. But why even try? Nothing is accomplished, and while the chances of making a mistake are now diminished - DNA can prove guilt as well as innocence - life in prison is a worthy substitute.

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism.' He defined it as 'the merging of the state and the corporation.' He also said a more accurate word would be 'corporatism.' This was the definition in Webster's up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster's and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.