Able Quote by Anna Lindh

Therefore those governing the State ought primarily to devote themselves to the service of individual groups and of the whole commonwealth, and through the…

— Pope Leo XIII

States get to improve transportation infrastructure; that creates economic development, puts people back to work and, most important, enhances safety and improves local communities.

— Corrine Brown

The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.

— Oscar Wilde

We have to allow people in the states to make their own decisions, to get government agencies out of the way and let local…

— Pete Sessions

The State is a professional apparatus that sets itself apart from the people and apart from the institutions that the people themselves create. It's…

— Murray Bookchin

States know better than the federal government how to allocate and manage resources to address the needs of their people.

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

The first essential responsibility of the state is control of the market-place: there must be some official charged with the duty of seeing that…

— Aristotle

First, we need to focus government on the things that are required of the State. Second, we need to achieve competence in government so…

— Narendra Modi

In my view, the state should be active and work in cooperation with private businesses to spur growth that's sustainable and inclusive. The policy…

— Mariana Mazzucato

The essential function of the State is to maintain peace, justice, law, and order, and to protect the individual citizen against aggression, violence, theft,…

— Henry Hazlitt

Things like water and sewage systems require states in a large-scale society, but states are also a good mechanism for dealing with health care,…

— Cynthia Kauffman

The state has an active role to play in ensuring that there is equilibrium between the constituent parts of the economy, the consumers and…

— Pierre Trudeau