State Quotes
7915 quotes by 4102 authors
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I basically never feel like writing. I am a happy-go-lucky, relaxed, fun-seeking kind of person. And working disturbs that, because it puts me in a…
— Robert Lopez
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My father-in-law and I always had great interest in Indian sport. At the Athens Olympics, watching the wrestling event, we started discussing the state of…
— Amit Bhatia
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In 1887, Oregon became the first state to make Labor Day an official holiday, with Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York quickly following suit.
— Brendan I. Koerner
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It was the view of the people in the Department of State that the handling of Yemen affairs from Aden was too much of a…
— Hermann Eilts
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I think it is fair to say that during World War II there was a high sense of purpose. The country had a very clear…
— Friedrich St. Florian
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Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will…
— F. Sionil Jose
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The dream of socialists, the Maximum Programme, has always been to eliminate the private property, the family and the nation state. With the private property…
— Vladimir Bukovsky
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Socialism is the gradual and less violent form of communism, and socialist is the project of the European Union, which was born in Maastricht in…
— Vladimir Bukovsky
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Living most of my life in New York, I witnessed plenty of nanny state laws. Later, I lived in D.C. for a bit and saw…
— David Harsanyi
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Most nanny-state initiatives begin on a local level.
— David Harsanyi
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The problem is that Americans use the state as a moral compass. For libertarians, it is often frustrating to explain that advocating the decriminalization of…
— David Harsanyi
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Folks have a common misconception that Mississippi is strictly a rural, outdoors state. While we are famous for our hunting, sport fishing and year-round golf,…
— Gregg Harper
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Gabby Giffords was a mentor of mine in the state Legislature and also in Congress.
— Ann Kirkpatrick
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Sometimes, people forget my record of fiscal conservatism on major issues in the state legislature. The greatest example is my voting against the pension borrowing…
— Leonard Lance
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My first district was Northwest Iowa. In 2002, it became North Central Iowa hooking around Des Moines down to the south, clear up to the…
— Tom Latham
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Puerto Rico has two divergent paths forward. After a reasonable transition period, it could become a state. Or it can become a sovereign nation.
— Pedro Pierluisi
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A territory cannot become a state or a nation unless Congress approves legislation and the president signs it.
— Pedro Pierluisi
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My federal, state, and local experience will allow me the opportunity to effectively represent the constituents of the Fourth District.
— Gloria Negrete McLeod
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Gujarat is truly vibrant. Be it handicrafts, folk music, art, costumes or food - the state offers the best of everything.
— Shreya Ghoshal
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Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in the…
— Okky Madasari
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