State Quotes

My friends all say I'm going to be Secretary of State. But I don't see how that would be much different from the job I have now.

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.

For 25 years, it has been my privilege to represent the city of San Francisco and the great state of California; to work to strengthen our vibrant middle class; to secure opportunity and equality.

Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We have lost a size of land equivalent to the entire state of Rhode Island.

Upon arriving, meeting their teachers and signing up for classes, these students began to realize that their attendance at Delaware State University was not a goal achieved, but rather a dream being sewn - a first step, if you will.

It is work and personal worth which make a State great both politically and industrially, and in my estimation they are to be found in largest proportions in the Democratic party.

One has this image of the Soviet state and the Red Army as being extremely disciplined but in the first four months of 1945 their soldiers were completely out of control.

Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.

The future of healthcare security should include flexibility from the federal government to allow us to serve the state's most vulnerable citizens.

History has shown us that, on extraordinarily rare occasions, it becomes necessary for the federal government to intervene on behalf of individuals whose 14th Amendment rights to legal due process and equal protection may be violated by a state.

There's no preventative measure between the Palestinians, between those terrorists to the state of Israel.

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens' faith. We must be trusted to always place the public's good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

So wearing a corset certainly changes your state of mind.

The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.

You're in this constant state of flux and transition, as if you had jet lag all the time. The acting part of it is easy. It's all the other things that come with it that are a bit difficult.

Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

This idea that you're a successful tough guy if you evade taxes and deceive the state has got to change.

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

We want a state wise in its contemplation - just in its actions - and moderate in the reach of government into our lives.

It is evident that not all people that have the confidence of the prime minister are the same ones that have the confidence of the head of state.

Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and flawed interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.

Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.

In Washington, I found myself as a 31-year-old in a room with the president, vice president, and secretaries of state and defense, and I was unfazed by it. But get me around a rock star I grew up with and I have trouble completing sentences.

Hawaii's the 50th state? I thought it was a suburb of Guam.

One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well.

Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs.