States Quotes - Page 35

• Imagine if we succeed in inspiring our audiences to reduce their own impacts on climate change by just 1 percent. That would be like turning the state of California off for almost two months.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Inspirational, Impact, Two

  "Rupert Murdoch launches effort to green News Corp.’s operations and programming". grist.org. May 9, 2007.

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• My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.

  William Howard Taft

  West, Revolution, United States

  William Howard Taft, David Henry Burton (2004). “The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Presidential addresses and state papers”

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• Through radio I look forward to a United States of the World. Radio is standardizing the peoples of the Earth, English will become the universal language because it is predominantly the language of the ether. The most important aspect of radio is its sociological influence. (1926)

  Arthur E. Kennelly

  Science, Important, United States

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• Effects vary with the conditions which bring them to pass, but laws do not vary. Physiological and pathological states are ruled by the same forces; they differ only because of the special conditions under which the vital laws manifest themselves.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Law, Special

  Claude Bernard “Experimental Medicine”, Transaction Publishers

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• Thousands of climate scientists agree that global warming is not only the most threatening environmental problem but also one of the greatest challenges facing all of humanity. We must demand a separation between oil and state. We can get off oil and slow global warming.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Oil, Challenges, Humanity

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• Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended to.

  George Washington

  Science, Important, United States

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1838). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private”, p.9

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• I detest 'love lyrics.' I think one of the causes of bad mental health in the United States is that people have been raised on 'love lyrics.

  Frank Zappa

  Love, Valentines Day, Thinking

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• Can you think of anything that can get better if we crowd more people into our cities, our towns, into our state our nation or on this earth?

  Albert Allen Bartlett

  Thinking, Cities, People

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• I argued last year on my shared blog that selling the right to immigrate would be the best approach to legal immigration. Among other benefits, the revenue from immigrants' payments could reduce taxes. Paying for the right to immigrate would also negate the argument that immigrants get a free ride when they gain health care and other benefits. Moreover, making immigrants pay would attract the type of immigrants who came much earlier in American history: young men and women who are reasonably skilled and want to make a long-term commitment to the United States.

  Gary Becker

  Commitment, Years, Long

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• It is to be regretted that domestication has seriously deteriorated the moral character of the duck. In a wild state, he is a faithful husband.....but no sooner is he domesticated than he becomes polygamous, and makes nothing of owning ten or a dozen wives at a time.

  Isabella Beeton

  Husband, Regret, Food

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• We win or the alumni bash in our teeth. (On the dental plan at NC State)

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Winning, Teeth

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• There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia, Ohio.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Ohio, Cities

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• I will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state, not to General Motors, not to the CIO. I will hoard my power like a miser, resisting every effort to drain it away from me. I will then use my power, as I see fit. I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arived at yesterday at the voting booth. That is a program of sorts, is it not? It is certainly program enough to keep conservatives busy, and Liberals at bay. And the nation free.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Life, Mean, Power

  "Up from Liberalism". Book by William F. Buckley Jr., 1959.

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• A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one of the most important rights of the subject, and in a republic ought to stand foremost in the estimation of the law.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rights, Law, Voting

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• [A]ffirmative action in the United States has made blacks. . .who have largely lifted themselves out of poverty, look like people who owe their rise to affirmative action and other government programs.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, People, United States

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• I think there are some things ... that may even be distorted in the practice, such as some affirmative action programs becoming quota systems. And I'm old enough to remember when quotas existed in the United States for the purpose of discrimination, and I don't want to see that happen again.

  Ronald Reagan

  Thinking, Practice, Quota

  Reagan, Ronald (1982). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981”, p.58, Best Books on

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• We must continue to have voting rights in the state, not to politicize this, but they must have a voice in the rebuilding effort in the community from which they have been displaced.

  Marc Morial

  Voice, Rights, Effort

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• I was the Secretary of State of New Jersey in November 2000. I paid careful attention to the challenges that stemmed from inadequate voting systems in various places.

  DeForest Soaries

  Voting, Challenges, Attention

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• If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as well as voting power in Congress.

  Dick Thornburgh

  Voting, Affair, Amendments

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• When Congress passed the Help America Vote Act in 2002, I was thrilled to learn that the federal government would offer resources to all states to assist them in enhancing the voting process in America.

  DeForest Soaries

  Government, America, Voting

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• It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots.

  Virgil Goode

  Meaningful, Hype, Voting

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• So we draw lines around our property, our counties, our cities, our states, our countries. And, boy, do we act as if those lines are important. I mean, we go to war. We will kill and die to protect those boundaries. Nature couldn't give two hoots about our national boundaries.

  David Suzuki

  Country, War, Mean

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. December 27, 2013.

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• Patriotism is "a very definite feeling of preference for one's own people or State above all other peoples and States, and a consequent wish to get for that people or State the greatest advantages and power that can be got - things which are obtainable only at the expense of the advantages and power of other peoples or States."

  Leo Tolstoy

  People, Feelings, Wish

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• It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it is clear that if each people and each State considers itself the best of peoples and States, they all live in a gross and harmful delusion.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Stupid, People, Feelings

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1989). “I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy”

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• Nationalism as we know it, is the result of a form of state-sponsored branding.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Branding, Form, Results

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