Quotes About State

Government is taking 40 percent of the GDP. And that's at the state, local and federal level. President Obama has taken government spending at the federal level from 20 percent to 25 percent. Look, at some point, you cease being a free economy, and you become a government economy. And we've got to stop that.

As state leaders, I think its important for us to provide our perspectives on issues we face every day - like access to school spending, access to health care and governing in a global economy.

The state is out of control, the state is on a spending binge, the state has to stop putting itself in a hole that's getting deeper and deeper and deeper.

I am an atheist, and I believe that religion should not be in the classrooms; it has to be in the churches. In the classrooms, you have to form citizenship, not people with religious beliefs, that corresponds to the private sphere.

The media continues to spin the State of Israel and Jews as war-mongering, evil people, which we are not.

New York City in particular is the economic engine of not just our state, but arguably the nation. If that engine stalls, this entire country could get dragged into the same downward spiral.

I know that our state has what it takes to be exceptional. And I know that with God's continued providence and our unconquerable spirit, together, we can get there.

I've never been a fan of pretense or procrastination. After all, our state is defined by its independent, outspoken spirit.

I would support a mass civil disobedience where we take medicine to tell the state that they have absolutely no right to control our consciousness and to define our spiritual practice.

Every time a government minister or spokesman lauds Magna Carta, let us boo or hiss. Shame them. And let us celebrate what it really means to our history: the ability of an emerging class to make demands against the state for new liberties and rights.

The definition of fascism is The marriage of corporation and state.

Marriage is a religious and state issue.

Love is not something you think about, it is a state in which you dwell

I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.

When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we, in essence, accept that the state owns our bodies.

Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man, that state is obsolete.

For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.

The genius of man is hidden in the silent, settled state of mind from where every thought emerges.

Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.

Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when the sated man instructs the hungry one.

The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.

No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever.

Two orders of mankind are the enemies of church and state; the king without clemency, and the holy man without learning.

A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one though who would attribute it to being man-made.