State Quotes

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree.

The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.

The Child Custody Protection Act makes it a federal crime to transport a minor across state lines for the purpose of obtaining an abortion.

The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina.

Oregon is the only state in the union that facilitates suicide.

You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel.

In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization.

But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.

In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.

Alaska itself is an unusual state.

My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things, but they are the state of human existence.

To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.

North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?

If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state.

You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.

Japan and China are isolated and without intercourse with other countries; hence the President directed me to attend to or watch the state of affairs in China also.

A lot of us don't want to be quite that serious about world problems. Our life is there to enjoy, not to be an eternal dissident, eternally unhappy with how things are and with the state of mankind.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges and officials at the local levels have struck down State laws protecting marriage.

What I would have liked to do on that show was play a secretary of state who has huge personal business interests throughout the world. That, to me, seems to be more in synch with reality.

Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.

The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an independent school, it was not part of the state educational system.

When it's for the good of your state, you put partisan differences aside.

I never thought I'd live to see the day that an American administration would denounce the state of Israel for rebuilding Jerusalem.

Is it not evident that the Canadas, as well as the other colonies, have been left in a great measure to grope their way as they could through the darkness which surrounds them, almost totally unaided by the parent state?