Allies Quote by Margaret Thatcher

States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct.

— Alexander Hamilton

It is only to clear from history that states rarely keep faith with each other, save in so far (and so long) as their…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

State visits are often an opportunity for the United States to reaffirm our ties and friendship with our closest partners around the world.

— Barack Obama

“This bias is politically advantageous to U.S. policy-makers, for focusing on victims of enemy states shows those states to be wicked and deserving of…

— Noam Chomsky

The States are separate and independent sovereigns. Sometimes they need to act like it.

— John Roberts

There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want…

— Michael Ignatieff

The state is captive to vested interests.

— Sanusi Lamido Sanusi

The patronage state is an arrogant state. It assumes it can spend your money better than you do. Yet it expects you to work…

— Margaret Thatcher

The local interest of a State ought in every case to give way to the interests of the Union. For when a sacrifice of…

— Alexander Hamilton

It couldn't be clearer, any person who holds an office of trust is not allowed to accept favors or gifts from foreign governments.

— Chuck Todd

It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.

— Charles Caleb Colton

No one has to agree with everything that someone else says. But in state-to-state relations, we have to understand that we can help each…

— Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva