Quotes of: State-level Keyword

My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States.

Emanuel Celler

The United States, for a French citizen, is a friend, an ally, to whom we owe, along with most Europeans, our freedom.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

Just as the formation of the family is basic to the formation of the state, so the states themselves are the only units that can form the basic constitution of a viable international organization.

Leon Bourgeois

I think the greatest CEOs in the United States, business, anyway, are the ones you don't hear too much about.

Edward Zander

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.

Lewis H. Lapham

Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.

T Bone Burnett

We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.

Jackie Speier

We no longer have a free market in the United States, we have a government controlled free market.

Jim Bunning

On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving the new territory.

Meriwether Lewis

The fact is, almost every year since the founding of these United States, our government has lived beyond its means.

Paul Gillmor

In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.

Tommy Franks

And at home in the United States we found continued and increased persecution, first of leaders of the Communist Party, and then of all honest anti-fascists.

Paul Robeson

In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope and skepticism by African-Americans.

John Henrik Clarke

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

James Madison

'Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States.

Demian Bichir

Never in the history of the United States have we cut back on troops when we've been at war.

Michele Bachmann

If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

Edmund Barton

After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States.

P. J. O'Rourke

No, I believe in the good will of the United States' administration.

Bulent Ecevit

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.

Baruch Spinoza