Connecticut Quote by Ezra Stiles

Washington would be much better off if it looked more like a state legislature.

— Kathy Szeliga

All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be…

— Ezra Stiles

“A year earlier, representatives of thirteen states had assembled in Philadelphia and declared their intention to form a more perfect union, but what had…

— Richard M. Ketchum

“The fifty-five delegates representing twelve states—the renegade Rhode Island boycotted the convention—scarcely constituted a cross section of America. They were white, educated males and…

— Ron Chernow

As the economy and peoples' habits change, we need to demonstrate that Connecticut's state government can keep pace.

— Ned Lamont

It's Connecticut: being like the people around you is the whole point.

— Lauren Oliver

It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one.

— Romano Prodi

The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Connecticut has always taken pride in our leadership role when it comes to climate, and when we can combine that with a stronger economy,…

— Ned Lamont

Pennsylvania is a very tough state; people don't last long in Pennsylvania politics.

— Arlen Specter

I'd like to see a revival of state legislatures, in which I am a true Jeffersonian.

— Gore Vidal

Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?

— George Washington