State Quotes

Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.

The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.

I was so used to going out and winning state championships and playing in the postseason.

We must create a state that responds to the citizens' needs, and we need citizens who feel committed to their state because that state serves the citizens.

People think I'm this angry black man walking around in a constant state of rage.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That's how I got involved; I got involved in a little play.

I knew that I could be more creative onstage, to state my own case and deliver my own interpretation of the role much more aggressively than in the recording studio.

Who owns your body? You or the state?

In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.

President Obama said it best during his state of the Union Address this year when he declared: 'I will go anywhere in the world to open new markets for American products. And I will not stand by when our competitors don't play by the rules.'

But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.

The diversification of the people's demand could not be followed by the state apparatus.

Which Israel should we recognize? The Israel of 1917; the Israel of 1936; the Israel of 1948; the Israel of 1956; or the Israel of 1967? Which borders and which Israel? Israel has to recognize first the Palestinian state and its borders and then we will know what we are talking about.

Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned.

I don't know why they're doing it. I have to assume that their motives are positive, not negative. But they don't understand the severity of the problem in this state.

According to a study by Achieve Incorporated, Texas is the first state to make a college-prep curriculum the standard coursework in high school, starting with this year's ninth grade class.

I attended the University of Louisville my freshman year, transferred to what was then Western Kentucky State Teachers College for my sophomore and junior years, and then graduated from the University of Louisville in the summer of 1961.

I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country.

Luxury is a state of mind.

In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.

I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.

My father was a sergeant with the Connecticut state police. My mother was a hairstylist.

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.

We want all the Palestinians back in their homeland, and then there can be a fair referendum for people to choose the form of state they want. Whoever gets the majority can rule.

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers.

If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.

So there clearly is a sense in which the Labour Party here, certainly at State level is reaching out and connecting with people and reflecting the aspirations and needs of, you know the mass of ordinary Australians.