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Quotes About States

The Democrats have failed to have a real robust message for working-class people in places like Ohio - these states that Donald Trump came in and won.
~ Tim Ryan
Only nine States have been represented since my arrival 'till within three days. There are now Eleven States barely represented. This tardiness in the States or their Delegates, besides retarding the most important Business makes it exceeding fatiguing to those that do attend.
~ William Whipple
I wish they had more Tim Horton's here in the States.
~ Myles Kennedy
I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always.
~ Abraham Lincoln
And a tiny number of people in a few states make these decisions, and we're left with these options that are increasingly not attractive to the American people.
~ Hamilton Jordan
I'm tired of being 51st in this country on the NEAP scores on fourth-grade math. We don't have but 50 states.
~ Robert J. Bentley
I think fear is one of the natural states of most actors, to be honest.
~ James McAvoy
Forty states have sued tobacco companies over the costs of health care for residents on Medicaid and public assistance.
~ Bill Dedman
Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.
~ Fatos Nano
I hope in time N. H. as well as the other States will feel the importance of Sovereignty.
~ William Whipple
They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States forever.
~ Mark Twain
Of these, one, the Lone Star, instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to one of the states of the Union." "Texas, I think." "I was not and am not sure which;
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Alla intuitionb is intellectual. For without the understanding it would never come to intuition, to perceptionc, apprehensiond of objects; rather, it would remain as mere sensation,e which at most could have significance with regard to the will as pain or comfort, but would otherwise be a change of meaningless states and
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Economists Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers found that in states that adopted unilateral divorce, this was followed, on average, by a 20 percent reduction in the number of married women committing suicide, as well as a significant drop in domestic violence for both men and women.
~ Stephanie Coontz
Abortions, gay marriage, legalized pot, all of that should be decided by the states. Whatever happened to the governmental powers reserved to the states? Let's declare ourselves independent, give the people of Oklahoma the right to decide which laws they want to live under, and tell Barry Soetoro where to go and what to do to himself when he gets there.
~ Stephen Coonts
It wasn't until 1911 that California joined forty-five other states in restricting recreational cocaine
~ Stephen G. Bloom
Much of the skepticism Schrödinger's claim attracted at the time was rooted in the general belief that delicate quantum states couldn't possibly survive in the warm, wet and busy molecular environments inside living organisms
~ Johnjoe McFadden
The inequalities are greater now than in '92. Some states have equalized per-pupil spending but they set the 'equal level' very low, so that wealthy districts simply raise extra money privately.
~ Jonathan Kozol
I think, after all, I'm happiest being a foreigner. Perhaps there should be a Homo sapiens passport? I feel less and less connected to individual states, and more and more connected to human beings.
~ Eric Idle
It seemed to him that delusion was the most natural of human states; it was honesty that was the aberration.
~ Erin Hart
I am apprehensive, therefore - perhaps too apprehensive - that the Government of these States may in futures times end in a monarchy. But this catastrophe, I think, may be long delayed, if in our proposed system we do not sow the seeds of contention, faction, and tumult, by making our posts of honor places of profit.
~ Benjamin Franklin
To all to whom these Presents shall come, we the undersigned Delegates of the States affixed to our Names send greeting. Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union between the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts-bay Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. Article I The Stile of this Confederacy shall be "The United States of America".
~ Benjamin Franklin
Laws are getting passed in states like Alabama that basically would punish American citizens who are 'harboring' people. Since the federal government hasn't been able to muster or to get comprehensive immigration reform passed, states are taking it upon themselves to police and enforce laws.
~ Jose Antonio Vargas
Forcing states to take refugees doesn't take Europe any further.
~ Sebastian Kurz