“There are four great measures for my administration - a reduction of tariff, an independent treasury, settlement of the Oregon boundary and acquisition of California.” FourIndependentBoundariesAdministrationCaliforniaPresidentialAcquisitionReductionSettlementTreasuryOregonTariffs Author:James K. Polk
“I designed furniture that pulled apart, folded, and broke down into neat stacks. Since arriving in California, I had moved four times and it looked as if I would move again. Was it the land running under my feet or my feet running over the land?” IfsRunningMovingFourFeetLandMovedBrokeCaliforniaFurnitureNeatArriving Book:A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning Source: A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning
“Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class.” YearsBookClassFourHappenedCenturyFashionPagesEnglandDressesMovedCaliforniaDevotedWorking Class19th CenturyBack WhenVictorian Author:Bill Vaughan
“California's economy is declining so rapidly that candidates are asking 'Are you better off now then you were four minutes ago?'” EconomyFourMinutesAskingCaliforniaCandidatesBetter Off Author:Craig Kilborn
“New Jersey boasts the highest percentage of passport holders (68%); Delaware (67%), Alaska (65%), Massachusetts (63%), New York (62%), and California (60%) are close behind. At the opposite end of the spectrum, less than one in five residents of Mississippi are passport holders, and just one in four residents of West Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, and Arkansas.” EndsBehindsFiveFourNew YorkHighestOppositesWestCaliforniaJust OneBoastPercentagesJerseySpectrumVirginiaAlaskaMississippiNew JerseyPassportsResidentsAlabamaKentuckyMassachusettsArkansasWest VirginiaDelaware Author:Richard Florida
“The problem is sitting in the birthplace of Islam, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, where this interpretation of Islam has gone out into the world over the last four decades, creating militancy groups from Indonesia, to now, San Bernardino, California, vicious attack. We have to take back the faith. And we have to take it back with the principles of peace, social justice, and human rights, women's rights, and secularize governance.” WorldHumansProblemLastsSocialJusticePrinciplesGoneFourRightsGroupsCreatingSittingSocial JusticeIslamHuman RightsDecadesCaliforniaInterpretationWomens RightsViciousGovernanceIndonesiaArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisMeccaBirthplaceMilitancy Author:Chuck Todd