States Quotes · Page 98

Many states rely on sales tax as their principle source of revenue and do not have a State income tax.

— Anonymous

And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.

— Hippocrates

This cannot be the United States being the air force for Shia militias, or a Shia on Sunni Arab fight.

— David Petraeus

I would not look to the United States Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind.

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

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

— Hillary Clinton

I never imagined, never imagined I would have the opportunity to be governor of the state that I love.

— Mike Pence

There cannot be a federal state of Europe without all citizens receiving the same benefits and rights.

— Jaroslaw Kaczynski

I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation…

— Bianca Jagger

On the Iberian Peninsula in the Spanish-Portuguese area, southern France that high state of a culture existed there because of Africans known…

— Malcolm X

That's not an accident that Donald Trump didn't begin with, say, trade or jobs or anything, that he actually began by otherizing…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Every war involves a greater or less relapse into barbarism. War, indeed, in its details, is the essence of inhumanity. It dehumanizes.…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

[T]he state should not impose a preferred way of life, but should leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their…

— Anonymous

Penn State University is also nationally recognized for the exceptional research and patient care provided at the College of Medicine, located in…

— Tim Holden

You want me to tell you what my husband thinks? My husband is not secretary of state; I am. If you want…

— Hillary Clinton

Passively accepting your sadness is the same as forgetting to build your own happiness. Happiness is more than a mood. It's a…

— Deepak Chopra

Confidence is a static state. Determination is active. Determination allows for doubt and for humility - both of which are critical in…

— Anna Deavere Smith

Now to avoid any collision of armed forces, and perhaps the loss of life, I do this under protest and impelled by…

— Liliʻuokalani

Let us labor for the security of free thought, free speech, pure morals, unfettered religious sentiments, and equal rights and privileges for…

— Ulysses S. Grant

California will not wait for our federal government to take strong action on global warming. We won't wait for the federal government.…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Sixty years of Western nations excusing and accommodating the lack of freedom in the Middle East did nothing to make us safe…

— George W. Bush

There was a hateful video that was disseminated on the Internet. It had nothing to do with the United States government, and…

— Susan Rice

In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born;…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's the ambiguity of human relationships, for instance. A relationship between two people, just like a sequence of words, is ambiguous if…

— Elliot Perlman

I don't think it's a good thing to have Christian states, Muslim states, or any kind of ethnic states.

— Norman Finkelstein

Prison guard unions have become the powerful political forces in some states, particularly California.

— Michelle Alexander

I doubt that more than two percent of professing Christians in the United States are truly born again.

— Leonard Ravenhill

But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion.

— Marco Rubio

Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.

— John von Neumann

To have created a Welfare State was a great achievement; but we must go on to create a Welfare Planet.

— George Mikes

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.

— Lewis H. Lapham

Our goal is to make Maine the healthiest state in the nation and reduce our overall health care costs.

— John Baldacci

Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous.

— Vladimir Zhirinovsky

A mind dominated by positive emotions, becomes a favorable abode for the state of mind known as faith.

— Napoleon Hill

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

— Ludwig von Mises

The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country — and we haven't seen them since.

— Gore Vidal

The ideal state is that in which an injury done to the least of its citizens is an injury done to all.

— Solon

All throughout my work, even in the United States, I have worked with the greater Cambodian community.

— Chath Piersath

Once he had drawn first blood, his war against the property of the state lost all its moral resonance.

— Pat Conroy

America can't succeed unless you succeed. That is why I am running for president of the United States.

— Hillary Clinton