While I have some regrets that this is my last opportunity to deliver a State of the State address, I appreciate and am humbled by the opportunities this great state has given me.
It appalls me that the people who decide what Americans will be watching on the tube have never been to the United States. Not the real United States.
Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states.
The Constitution of the United States was made by white men, the citizens and representatives of twelve slaveholding and one non-slaveholding State; and it was made for white men.
The Constitution separated the ideologies and values of the Church from the State, and leaders of the State were thus educated in matters pertaining to the State. These leaders proved themselves time after time with their pragmatic intellectual capac...
The United States has overstepped its borders in all spheres - economic, political and humanitarian - and has imposed itself on other states.
Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State.
Another part of the global war on terrorism that Canada and the United States are working on together is in helping failed states, states like Afghanistan, where people have no voice.
You know," he added reflectively, "we've got a much easier job now than we should have had fifty years ago. If we'd had to modernise a country then it would have meant constitutional monarchy, bicameral legislature, proportional representation, women...
If the world had ever been in a state in which no change whatever was taking place, how could it pass from this state to one of change? The absolutely unchanging, especially when it has been in this state from eternity, cannot possibly get out of suc...
The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.
The state is out of control, the state is on a spending binge, the state has to stop putting itself in a hole that's getting deeper and deeper and deeper.
Our own State Department polls say that 80 percent of Iraqis view the United States as an unpopular occupier.
If businesses don't know from state to state what the requirements are for taxes, they have to waste a lot of money on accountants and lawyers before deciding to expand their business into the state next door.
There was a time when the United States government earned the trust of its people. There was a time when most people believed that the United States government was protecting them.
I think my exact comment was that if Bush won it would be a good time to leave the United States. I'm not necessarily going to leave the United States.
I don't think it's a good thing to have Christian states, Muslim states, or any kind of ethnic states.
President Obama has been clear about the future that the United States seeks... when it comes to the Asia-Pacific, the United States is 'all in.'
No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. There are merely differences of degree in the militarism of states.
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.
States are free to modify the Common Core State Standards or adopt their own individual standards, because academic standards are the prerogative of the states.
