Beneath the surface of states and nations, ideas and language, lies the fate of individual human beings in need. Answering their needs… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Politics and the affairs of State are dissociated from the orbit of the individual, and in so far as they cannot be… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Spiritual evolution is a movement from the states of mind that reflect life less accurately to the states of mind that reflect… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Massachusetts is the first state in America to reach full adulthood. The rest of America is still in adolescence. — Uwe Reinhardt Copy Share Image
Where gays and lesbians are the best organized and most concentrated in numbers are states that President Clinton must carry in order… — David Mixner Copy Share Image
Defenders of the status quo will often try to mislead the public by saying, "Just look at our state prisons: nearly half… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Rationalism is the idea that we can ever understand anything about the state of being. It's a deathtrip. It always has been.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A limit on the automobile population of the United States would be the best of news for our cities. The end of… — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
By the time [John Adams] came to write his Defence of the Constitutions of the United States in 1787 he had as… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
Lawsuits - and frivolous lawsuits - are just sapping the life out of the people who perform the services and deliver the… — Conrad Burns Copy Share Image
We in the United States are very often - since we are a democracy and we have national interests, we've often made… — George Soros Copy Share Image
What an augmentation of the field for jobbing, speculating, plundering, office-building and office-hunting would be produced by an assumption of all the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Given how we know Russia feels about the State Department, seeing what`s happening to the State Department under this current [Donald Trump]… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
I really do believe that there are those who would like and trust me better if they saw me weeping into a… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
I can assure you that those who have already passed have not only made it to the Other Side, but are in… — Sylvia Browne Copy Share Image
The welfare state corrupts family life. Even Democrats have acknowledged the destructive consequences of the welfare state on the underclass. It has… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact - religion and politics should not be mingled. — Millard Fillmore Copy Share Image
What I haven't apologised for is the original concept of seeking to bring justice to all South Africans through the concept of… — F. W. de Klerk Copy Share Image
Who cares what the state thinks about your relationship? They're giving you tax breaks and this and that - it's just nonsense.… — Dale Peck Copy Share Image
Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice. When I say 'capitalism,'… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The biggest threat to the American people today lies with the United States government. ... [T]he long-term solution is to dismantle, not… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
Few photographers have ever considered the photography of wild animals, as distinctly opposed to the genre of Wildlife Photography, as an art… — Nick Brandt Copy Share Image
The art of plucking the goose without making it cry out has been developed to a high state of perfection at the… — Frederic C. Howe Copy Share Image
I think it's fair to say that diplomacy today requires much more of that if you're the United States of America than… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The gag rule is, is that if any program receiving United States funding for Family Planning cannot mention, cannot speak the word… — Eleanor Smeal Copy Share Image
The concept that one ought to restrict one's political involvement to one's own state was deeply antithetical to those who were pursuing… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
What is the use of freedom of the press if the government is in possession of all the printing presses, what does… — Eugen Richter Copy Share Image
While I may not be able to describe to you exactly what enlightenment is like, I can tell you that it is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
[I]t would be unjust to our people and dangerous to our institutions to apply any portion of revenues of the nation or… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
There is no possibility of relaxation if you have a mind and an ego; the ego is the center of the mind.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me. — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
We, the United States, have to be guilty. We have to be guilty. We have to be underperforming. We have to be… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
In relations between the states ... the interests of the country should be correlated with the interests of other countries, and compromise… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Defeating Barack Obama becomes, in fact, a duty of national security. Because the fact is, he is incapable of defending the United… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
The under-funded and over-extended United States Patent and Trademark Office does not have the resources to adequately evaluate the burgeoning number of… — Viet D. Dinh Copy Share Image
Joy, like love, is an impenetrable, God-given state of being. The distinctions between joy and happiness and love and affection are important… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image