State Quotes

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

While other state governments stiff their vendors, close parks, delay tax refunds, and ignore unacceptably poor service levels, Indiana state employees are setting national standards for efficiency.

As a physicist, I can state that none of the 18 physicists who signed the Statement works in this field; nor to my knowledge has ever published a paper on this subject.

I do not go lightly. If I could have anything right now, it would be the ability to continue as secretary of state.

The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.

We repeat today that we are with the establishment of a Palestinian state on any liberated part of Palestinian land that is agreed upon by the Palestinian people, without recognizing Israel or conceding any inch of historical Palestine.

I ended up being the governor of a very ag state, Nebraska.

Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Business and the state have a common interest; not an adversarial interest.

As far as the international issues are concerned, the most important thing is the state of the transatlantic relationships, Euro-Atlantic relationships: how to develop them and how to strengthen them further.

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 a state of their own.

Invariably, also a Palestinian state should live side by side with Israel within recognized and secure borders and the security and prosperity of the Palestinian people must be guaranteed.

The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.

The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them.

The right of such control is already admitted by the State Socialists, though they maintain that, as a matter of fact, the individual would be allowed a much larger liberty than he now enjoys.

Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism.

For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.

When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high.

In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.

There's no conflict between the social-welfare state and open markets.

In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.

In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty obligations.

The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.

One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.

Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.

I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.

As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.