Quotes of: Welfare-state Keyword

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I wish we could begin a new period of normal relations with the government of the United States.

Hugo Chavez

I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon.

Wallis Simpson

I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.

Arthur Godfrey

Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.

Bob Barr

It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.

Gael Garcia Bernal

In the state of Michigan, where I served in the state Legislature, there was a lot of shuffling of money between one year and the other to balance the budget.

Justin Amash

Well, the United States is a Pacific power. And we have always had a presence in the Pacific.

Leon Panetta

Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.

Lester B. Pearson

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

Robert M. Gates

Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain power.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.

Seamus Heaney

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Ambrose Bierce

There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state.

William Kirby

I admire President Chavez for his strength to resist the United States. Instead, Bush is waging a war of terrorism against the world.

Cindy Sheehan

The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state.

David Ricardo

A major driver of the cost of healthcare in the United States is a compromise that was reached with the American Medical Association in the 1960s when Medicare was first established.

Clayton Christensen

American exceptionalism is grounded in the founding of the United States upon an idea, rather than upon the ambitions of men.

Monica Crowley

There is a limit to how much the United States Treasury can borrow.

Alan Greenspan

Gabby Giffords was a mentor of mine in the state Legislature and also in Congress.

Ann Kirkpatrick

The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.

Al Sharpton