Best States Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Every time I come to the States, I wish people would react to war like they react to tobacco, for example. Because war really kills in a second lots of people, thousands of people.”

People War States Wish Example Tobacco

Author:Diego Luna

“I don't have this feeling like, oh, I want to live in the United States and make movies and become famous just because the money is here. I like to make movies that tell stories that I care about.”

Want States Stories Feelings Care United United States I Care

Author:Diego Luna

“The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.”

People World Want Needs Art States House Comfort Draws Art Is Responsible Works Of Art Requirements

Author:Adolf Loos

“I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.”

Feels Writing Sometimes States Song Lost Constant Translations Lost In Translation

Author:Laura Marling

“I went to Kent State basically to avoid going to Vietnam, I had no idea what I was doing in the world. I was lost, and trying not to get into a fight every day.”

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Author:Mark Mothersbaugh

“Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.”

Firsts States United United States Policy Tasks Let Me Threat Foreign Policy American Foreign Policy

Author:Michael Mandelbaum

“The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.”

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Author:Michael Mandelbaum

“American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies, as empires have always done, save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule.”

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Book:The Case for Goliath: How America Acts as the World's Government in the

Source: The Case for Goliath: How America Acts as the World's Government in the

“American power confers benefits on most inhabitants of the planet, even on many who dislike it and some who actively oppose it, because the United States plays a major, constructive, and historically unprecedented role in the world.”

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Book:The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era

Source: The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era

“The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional powers that, while not preparing for armed conflict, do not fully trust one another.”

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Author:Michael Mandelbaum

“In case anyone needs reminding, it was the relentless drive of the tourism industry and kowtowing State Department bureaucrats that led to the Bush-era Visa Express Program, which relaxed visa policies, eliminated in-person consulate interviews and opened the door to the 9/11 hijackers.”

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Author:Michelle Malkin

“I'm pretty excited about the state of TV these days. There's great opportunity for really complicated relationships, in a way that I don't really see as much in movies anymore.”

Way States Opportunity Tvs Excited Complicated These Days Great Opportunity Complicated Relationship

Author:Paula Malcomson

“If the United States leads a multinational force into Iraq without United Nations backing, Canada should fight beside its neighbour. We've gone from being a middle power to a muddle power on this one.”

Ifs Should States Fighting Force Nations United United States Gone Middle Iraq Canada United Nations Neighbour Multinationals Muddle

Author:Peter MacKay

“One survey that I saw that was published I think in Variety or Electronic Media within the last three weeks says that now the average hour of radio in the United States has 18 minutes of commercials.”

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Author:Robert Waterman McChesney

“The nature of our two main political parties has changed in the United States.”

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Author:Roger Mahony

“I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.”

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Author:Samantha Morton

“I majored in journalism at Arizona State University, where I began writing the columns I write now, but I cannot, in good conscience, refer to myself as a writer. I'm a columnist, maybe a journalist, I guess I'm an author, but writer... no. That's not up to me to call myself, that's rather lofty. It's for the reader to decide.”

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Author:Laurie Notaro

“Look at Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution and the slogans that they used: anti-imperialism; anti-colonialism; the struggle of the have-nots against the haves; the state monopoly over economy, which was very much patterned after the Soviet Union. All of these things did not come out of Islam. Islam is not that developed.”

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Author:Azar Nafisi

“The relationship between Israel and the United States is a bond of - it’s just a very powerful bond. It was, it is, and will be and will continue to be.”

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Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in.”

States Facts Use Political Social Leader Honest Security Figures Judging Citizens Data Being Honest Social Security Political Leaders Forthcoming

Author:Grace Napolitano

“For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.”

People Has Beens States Law Century

Author:Nursultan Nazarbayev

“Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state.”

States Spiritual Progress Resources Bases Our Society Strategic Accord

Author:Nursultan Nazarbayev

“When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosity and an eagerness to help. The compassionate response to the fires has proven that this community spirit is alive and well.”

Wells States Helping Past Spirit Community Fire Alive Response Generosity Fallen Rough Compassionate Proven Rough Times Eagerness Texan Community Spirit

Author:Randy Neugebauer

“Unfortunately, more and more Muslim voices are calling for boycotts of the United States and its products.”

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Author:Richard Neal

“The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic.”

Way States Modern West Japan

Author:Kenzaburo Oe

“In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.”

Ifs States Church Partnership Irresistible Unconstitutional Covert

Book:Freedom Under Siege: The Impact of Organized Religion on Your Liberty and Your Pocketbook

Source: Freedom Under Siege: The Impact of Organized Religion on Your Liberty and Your Pocketbook

“Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.”

Different States Feelings Grief Stage Wave

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to.”

Ifs States Today Havens Australia Visiting

Book:Oliphant's Anthem

Source: Oliphant's Anthem

“Don't kid yourself. President Obama's decision to withdraw 33,000 troops from Afghanistan before he stands for reelection is not driven by the United States' 'position of strength' in the war zone as much as it is by grim economic and political realities at home.”

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Author:Ron Fournier

“It is a foregone opportunity that we could have a trillion dollars more of income for the United States if we were producing at capacity rather than falling so far short of it.”

Ifs States Fall Opportunity United United States Capacity Dollars Income

Author:Peter R. Orszag

“Obama might do well to remember that his fast rise from the Illinois state Senate was due in large part to an uncanny ability to make friends and find mentors.”

Wells States Might Remember Ability Dues Senate Mentor Illinois Uncanny

Author:Ron Fournier

“Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is the most influential woman in Washington - for what she has accomplished and for what she may yet do: win the presidency.”

May States Winning Clinton Accomplished Secretary Presidency Influential Hillary Rodham Clinton

Author:Ron Fournier

“Romanticism is not just about being in a fixed state of endless beauty, because you can't live like that or live on that, that's what I've learnt.”

States Endless Fixed Romanticism

Author:Elizabeth Peyton

“Part of the main plan of imperialism... is that we will give you your history, we will write it for you, we will re-order the past...What's more truly frightening is the defacement, the mutilation, and ultimately the eradication of history in order to create... an order that is favorable to the United States.”

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Author:Edward Said

“Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world. Compulsion is applied from above as self-discipline relaxes below, and the last liberties expire under the weight of a unitary state.... Since religion has lost its empire over the souls of men, the most prominent boundary that divided good from evil is overthrown; kings and nations are guided by chance and none can say where are the natural limits of despotism and the bound of license.”

“The founders understood that democracy would inevitably evolve into a system of legalized plunder unless the plundered were given numerous escape routes and constitutional protections such as the separation of powers, the Bill of Rights, election of senators by state legislators, the electoral college, no income taxation, most governmental functions performed at the state and local levels, and myriad other constitutional limitations on the powers of the central government.”

“A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot.”

States Hands Poor Democracy Citizens Office Divides Upper Hand

Author:Plato

“Men only act in a state of necessity and usually only recognise necessity in a situation of crisis.”

Men States Situation Crisis Recognise

Author:Jean Monnet

“To have created a Welfare State was a great achievement; but we must go on to create a Welfare Planet.”

States Planets Goes On Achievement Stupidity Welfare Welfare State Great Achievement

Author:George Mikes

“Can I pay any higher tribute to a man [George Gaylord Simpson] than to state that his work both established a profession and sowed the seeds for its own revision? If Simpson had reached final truth, he either would have been a priest or would have chosen a dull profession. The history of life cannot be a dull profession.”

Ifs Men Life Has Beens States Science Pay Higher Finals Seeds Profession Chosen Dull Priests Tribute Revision History Of Life

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“How many pizzas are consumed each year in the United States? How many words have you spoken in your life? How many different peoples names appear in the New York Times each year? How many watermelons would fit inside the U.S. Capital building? What is the volume of all the human blood in the world?”

“In our current state of human development it remains unclear whether we will correct one of life's greatest tragedies, namely, the inability to appreciate a blessing until it is lost.”

Humans States Lost Development Blessing Appreciate Tragedy Remains Currents Inability Human Development Unclear

Author:Shmuley Boteach

“To properly reflect the changes of the world and of the UN, with its growing number of member states, we would like to see an enlargement of the SC that gives room for new members, not least developing countries.”

World Giving Country States Rooms Numbers Growing Members Developing Developing Countries Enlargement

Author:Anna Lindh

“No, I had no problem communicating with Latin American heads of state - though now I do wish I had paid more attention to Latin when I was in high school.”

States Problem School Politics Wish Attention High School Paid Communicate Latin No Problem Latin America Head Of State Latin American

Author:Dan Quayle

“A nervous excitability, a chronic exaltation of the passion, in which commingle the inferior life of the individual and its exterior manifestations, a state in which sentiment, idea, and will are confounded together, where for the lack of the powerful corrective of logic, the flights of imagination know no bounds, where life and human activity are deprived of a regulator, and move outside of material and concrete factors, by the sole interior force of the soul.”

“Israel's shooting down of a civilian airplane and then the killing of 107 innocent peopel aboard, and their raid into neutral Lebanon are very dangerous developments. There's only one way I can see to stop it...is for the United States to take a very strong stand that this has to be settled...politically settled.”

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Author:J. William Fulbright

“Well, we have the leverage in the sense that we supply all the wherewithal...or a major part of the wherewithal to finance or to pay for everything Israel does. We don't have any leverage in the sense that Israel controls the Senate. The Senate is at least...a subservient, in my opinion, much too much. We should be more concerned about the United States' interest, rather than doing the bidding of Israel. This is a most unusual development.”

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Author:J. William Fulbright

“The great majority of the Senate of the United States...somewhere around 80 percent...are completely in support of Israel, anything Israel wants. This has been demonstrated time and again, and this has made it difficult.”

Want Has Beens Made States Difficult United United States Support Percent Majority Jew Israel Made It Senate

Author:J. William Fulbright

“The Israelis object to an imposed settlement I don't know what they mean by an imposed settlement. It's quite obvious, without the all out support by the United States in money and weapons and so on the Israelis couldn't do what they've been doing. So we bear a very great share of the responsibility for the continuation of this...of this state of warfare.”

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Author:J. William Fulbright

“The citizens of the United States cherish sentiments the most friendly in favor of liberty and happiness...beyond the Atlantic. In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy to do so. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries.”

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Author:James Monroe

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