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State Quotes


"We see an extensive program of dismantling state institutions... These are ingredients for catastrophe."


"It is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals."


"I was named Beekeeper of the Year by the Florida State Beekeeping Association."


"Currently, most States do not recognize within their borders concealed carry permits issued in other States."


"It's a coup by the GOP to grab the governorship to California to make this place a safe haven for George W. Bush in 2004. It's incredible when you think about it. The recall cost the state $100 million."


"But in the long run we're not going to be able to keep out of state trash away from Pennsylvania."


"Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own them to masters who do not; and it does not require much demonstration to prove that their estate is not always the more gracious."


"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."


"There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state."


"I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation."


"In my view, Arafat is the only Palestinian in the world that isn't willing to have an independent Palestinian state."


"For me it's the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a vibrato; I don't know what a flute is unless the person plays it for me."


"When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy."


"You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out."


"The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election."


"The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy."


"But ya have to make videos in the States. Usually ours just look too serious. We haven't got it together."


"No, the United States does not target civilians."


"On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet."


"By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world."


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


"Any confrontation, such as a verbal one with the United States, would be harmful for everybody."


"Many transition states have a well-defined preferred geometrical requirement."


"Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian."


"Iranians are very proud and don't want to become a pariah state like North Korea."


"The real problem was not the troops; the real problem was that only the United States had the infrastructure to do the transport of troops with big planes, and then who will pay?"


"I have this cozy house here and I get three pensions from the States. I've done nicely."


"We might say that the state is like an addictive drug: the more of it we have, the more we 'need' it and the more we come to 'depend' on it."



"When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained."


"Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can't run a state."


"I did have a big following in the upper New York area. I was at the New York State Fair a few times over the years. I have areas that I say are my areas."


"If I knew I couldn't win races, I would have stayed in the States."
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