State Quotes
7915 quotes by 4102 authors
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I think the Chinese model is one that appeals more and more in the developing world. People see that an authoritarian state can hold onto…
— Richard Engel
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I am fortunate to have the ability to lend my name to build the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in my hometown of Melbourne.…
— Olivia Newton-John
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President Obama has called for economic and political empowerment of women globally. The Equal Futures Partnership promotes removal of policy, legal, and regulatory barriers that…
— Lael Brainard
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I always tell people this: to be a savvy politician or a good head of state and to be charitable are not mutually exclusive things.
— Natalie Dormer
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The Garden State will never leave me.
— Richie Sambora
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How can you work with someone if you went into their state to campaign against them?
— Angus King
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Before the rise of the nation-state, between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, the world was mostly tribal. Tribes were united by language, religion, blood, and…
— Robert Reich
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Jesus said that we should render to the state what properly belongs to the state, and though he had taxes in mind, we might reasonably…
— Lewis B. Smedes
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I increasingly wonder whether most humans are in a constant state of unconsciously fearing each other. Perhaps they fear how intimately different other people might…
— Michael Leunig
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Musicals are famous for being in a constant state of flux.
— Tim Curry
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When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.
— Lamar Alexander
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South Carolina, as a matter of compromise, displays the Confederate flag on a flagpole in front of the state capitol. Because I grew up in…
— John Edwards
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No one heard about Bill Clinton on his first trip to New Hampshire. I showed Mike Huckabee around the state years before he ran, and…
— Bob Ehrlich
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In 1972, Texaco Oil Company, in partnership with PetroEcuador, the state-run oil company of Ecuador, began to drill for oil in the jungles of the…
— Peter Coyote
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The state of Alabama is serious about economic development, and we have shown that the Mobile region has a skilled workforce that is developing every…
— Bradley Byrne
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How to strike the right balance between our privacy and our expectation that the state will protect us and facilitate our freedom is one of…
— David Blunkett
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The democratic state can sometimes abuse its power as much as those who seek to destroy it abuse fundamental rights and democratic practices.
— David Blunkett
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To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you…
— John Updike
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The Islamic State is a threat to both the moderate Islam headed by Mr. Saad al-Hariri and, of course, for Hezbollah. There is a convergence,…
— Walid Jumblatt
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The ultimate good in a liberal state is liberty.
— Michael Ignatieff
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