You leave the States, and you see people have bigger problems than you, much worse problems than you.
I was talking about no nukes, the farm crisis. People said that wasn't stuff that a state auditor was supposed to be talking about. Maybe they were right.
But the threat posed by the radical Islamists represents an unusual conflict, unlike any experienced by our nation before: we face an enemy that is not a state.
To the turtle, the concept of "loneliness" is incomprehensible. She always has been alone, and any other social state is unthinkable.
It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.
Every year the State will be the dog that chases its own tail... engaging in a futile attempt to close a perpetual budget gap.
There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States.
How many State of the Union addresses do people remember? They don't resonate that way.
Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.
I read in the press, and therefore it must be true, that no secretary of defense had ever been quoted as arguing for a bigger budget for State.
When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.
Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph
It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.
To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is our state of consciousness and the shape of our perceptions.
New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state-of-the-art technology.
We can make the United States a 'Hispanic Quebec' without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity.
The president of the United States is a pretty important position, and it's the ideas and policies that matter to me, not the color of their skin.
No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.
In a pre-Internet world, sovereignty over our physical freedoms, or lack thereof, was controlled almost entirely by nation-states.
It is possible to see the intermediate state between lives as being in a way more important than incarnate existence.
One can tell or do whatever one wants when one is in the Opposition but once one is running a state, one cannot do that.
