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Quotes About States

We are a nation of United States - a constitutional republic made up of individually governed states empowering three equal branches of government to act on our behalf - not one nation-state governed exclusively by a President.
~ Phil Scott
Breitbart is the most pro-Israel site in the United States of America.
~ Steve Bannon
We're not the States of America; we're the United States of America. If states don't get what they need, we're not going to have a successful plan, period.
~ Anna Eshoo
As the name of the agency suggests, 'Department of Defense,' the defense refers to the United States of America - not the defense of South Korea, not the defense of Ukraine, not the defense of Syria or Germany.
~ Ann Coulter
Bernie Sanders is a socialist. I think Bernie Sanders is good candidate for president of Sweden. We don't want to be Sweden. We want to be the United States of America.
~ Marco Rubio
He took pride in belonging to the world's most exclusive club: the United States Senate.
~ Margaret Truman
The United States Senate wasn't designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to include and accommodate the rights of the minority in small states as well as large states.
~ Olympia Snowe
Guard units in the U.S. are suffering severe equipment shortages which will affect their ability to respond to emergencies in their home States, such as Katrina.
~ Ike Skelton
Few states, they have the international borders, state borders; in India, there is so much diversity in system. Unity in diversity is our system, so therefore, you cannot take for granted, whatever you do.
~ Mamata Banerjee
What better symbol of unity, what better symbol of growth, than to have Mike Espy in the United States Senate.
~ Mike Espy
The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.
~ Josiah Warren
The important consequences to the American States from this Declaration of Independence, considered as the ground and foundation of a future government, naturally suggest the propriety of proclaiming it in such a manner as that the people may be universally informed of it.
~ John Hancock
Slavery existed before the formation of this Union. It derived from the Constitution that recognition which it would not have enjoyed without the confederation. If the States had not united together, there would have been no obligation on adjoining States to regard any species of property unknown to themselves.
~ Jefferson Davis
The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
~ Harry A. Blackmun
Our difficulties launch us into new states of consciousness where we are inspired to step out of the reality of our smallest thoughts and step into the limitless freedom of our biggest dreams.
~ Debbie Ford
I think the concept of seeking fame and fortune in women's football in the States is a bit idyllic.
~ Hope Solo
I know that there is a great diversity of opinion as to who, in fact, pays the duties on imports. I do not intend to discuss that point. We of the staple and exporting States have long settled the question for ourselves, almost unanimously, from sad experience.
~ John C. Calhoun
The Starbucks customer and the Teavana customer are two very different customers, two different need states that are highly complimentary.
~ Howard Schultz
Portugal is like Ziggy Stardust. The period is there, so you know that it's not the country, it's Portugal. The 'Man' states, 'He's the man.'
~ John Gourley
I would never say President Obama doesn't have the capacity to continue to serve because of his statement that there are 56 states.
~ Gerald Walpin
Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer.
~ Edward Thorndike
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
~ Noam Chomsky
If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
~ Lao Tzu
Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.
~ Sam Harris