Quotes About State

While one might laugh at the meaningless boredom of people a decade or two ago, the emptiness has for many now moved from the state of boredom to a state of futility and despair, which holds promise of dangers.

When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.

I am not about to let the people who so mismanaged the state budget now try to manage local government.

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

Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can't run a state.

I am not prejudiced against the Negro. When I was governor, I did more to help the Negroes in our State than any previous Governor, and I think you can find Negro leaders in the State who will attest to this fact.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

I'm not against the government. I'm against this ever-expanding government that doesn't know its limits. And that's how I see the role of the attorney general, as someone in an office that can protect you and defend the Constitution and defend state sovereignty and our individual liberty.

Nations don't have friends; they have interests. The best motivation for a state to act if it is remote from an epidemic is if its own security is at risk.

Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.

My State Senate district was in the northern part of Oklahoma and they were redrawing the districts.

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.

Pakistan is riddled with problems that are rooted in the disproportionate power of the state. Aid has only boosted that power.

I always told people Alabama was the smartest state because it has four As and a B.

In matters of state, one has to be full of sentiments, but one can never be sentimental.

I'd rather have a real South Dakotan who has lived in this state and made her living here instead of someone with a fancy East Coast law degree any day.

They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded the nation, the state, the county, and the city with debt.

There's no conflict between the social-welfare state and open markets.

Arizona has become a national leader in the restoration of the Rule of Law, with over 100,000 illegal aliens having left the state since 2007.

We need to see a Palestinian state.

I am neither frustrated nor planning anything other than being the best Secretary of State I could be.

The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state.

So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it!

The emphasis has been on rights, not responsibilities. When it comes to piecing together the fragments of broken lives, we have tended to place the entire burden on the state and its agencies.