State Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace.

They don't want to be reminded that there is an authority higher than the authority of the state.

As a co-chair of the State's 2010 Olympics Task Force, I am working to make sure our border crossings are ready to handle the risks and benefits the Games will bring.

The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.

We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.

I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn't think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him.

In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

The German experience, as you can see, did move me very much. Seeing that terrible destruction and seeing the miserable state of the people, how they had been beaten down by the war through no fault of their own probably.

And I think musicians can better run this state than politicians. And, hell, beauticians can better run the state than politicians.

You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.

Iraq is a country that has been invaded. It's not a failing state that you want to help. It's a country that was functioning good or bad, with a horrible dictator, but you have invaded.