States Quotes - Page 34

• We're gonna be using American produced, American energy that will create jobs in the United States, will create a far more secure source of energy for us and will make us better environmental stewards because we will be contributing less to climate change and burning much cleaner fuel.

  Ray Mabus

  Jobs, Environmental, Energy

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• We acknowledge-now with President Obama-that we have made mistakes in the United States, and we along with other developed countries have contributed most significantly to the problem we face with climate change.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Mistake, President

  "Clinton Defends U.S. Demands for Anti-Terror Help", www.foxnews.com. July 18, 2009.

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• ...it is quite obvious that the temperature change during the last 100 years or so includes significant natural changes, both the linear change and fluctuations. It is very puzzling that the IPCC reports state that it is mostly due to the greenhouse effect.

  Syun-Ichi Akasofu

  Years, Energy, Lasts

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• The concept of national sovereignty has been an immutable, indeed sacred, principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation. It is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nation states, however powerful. The global community must be assured of environmental security.

  Maurice Strong

  Powerful, Yield, Community

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• It is the fundamental right of every American, as guaranteed by the first amendment of the Constitution, to worship as he or she pleases... This legislation sets forth the policy of the United States to protect and preserve the inherent right of American Indian, Eskimo, Aleut, and Native Hawaiian people to believe, express, and exercise their traditional religions

  Jimmy Carter

  Believe, Exercise, People

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1979). “Jimmy Carter”

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• Dress gives one the outward sign from which people in general can, and often do, judge upon the inward state of mind and feelings.

  Mae West

  Fashion, People, Giving

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• I think Israel, as a number of commentators pointed out, is becoming an insane state. And we have to be honest about that. While the rest of the world wants peace, Europe wants peace, the US wants peace, but this state wants war, war and war.

  Norman Finkelstein

  War, Thinking, Europe

  Interview with Selcuk Gultasli for "Today's Zaman" (Turkey), www.thehypertexts.com. January 19, 2009.

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• This country was taken into war based on lies about weapons of mass destruction and Al Qaeda's role with respect to Iraq, which there wasn't one at the time we went in. I want to state that Mr. Cheney must be held accountable. He is already ginning up a cause for war against Iran. Now, we have to stand for this Constitution, we have to protect and defend this Constitution.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Country, War, Lying

  South Carolina Democratic Debate trancscript, www.nbcnews.com. April 26, 2007.

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• Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine - that is, activity - which could solve it, is seen as odious.

  Margaret George

  Archery, Medicine, Boredom

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• By ending the Hussein regime, the United States has taken away yet another incubator of terrorism.

  Jim Gerlach

  Taken, United States, Hussein

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• As long as there are people who are not happy with their lot in life, as long as the United States is perceived to somehow be the cause of this unhappiness, there will be terrorism.

  Cofer Black

  America, Long, People

  Cofer Black during September 11 Commission Hearing, www.washingtonpost.com. April 14, 2004.

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• The American people expect the United States to keep terrorists where they belong, apart from civilized society and outside of America's borders

  Eric Cantor

  America, People, United States

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• When you get saved, you get saved not because you deserve it, but because you simply let God save you and because you confess your own poor sinful state and your inability to save yourself.

  John R. Rice

  Letting Go, Inspiration, Inability

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• As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.

  John Boyd Orr

  War, Airplane, United States

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• Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods, liberty and obedience; for it is no longer within the power of such masses to accord their inner consent to the authority to which they are subjected. Those who encourage a state of things in which the hope of gain is the principle motive take away from men their obedience, for consent which is its essence is not something which can be sold.

  Simone Weil

  Exercise, Men, Essence

  "The Needs of the Soul (1949)". "The Need for Roots". Book by Simone Weil, p. 97, 1949.

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• A state does not simply fall apart as a result of depression... [Weimar Germany] was not destroyed by economic depression or widespread unemployment, though these naturally contributed to the atmosphere of doom, but because the Weimar Right was resolved to abolish the parliamentary state in favour of a vaguely conceived authoritarian state.

  Sebastian Haffner

  Fall, History, Atmosphere

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• The National Socialist Party will prevent in the future, by force if necessary, all meetings and lectures which are likely to exercise a depressing influence on the German state.

  Adolf Hitler

  Depressing, Party, Exercise

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• It is sometimes suggested that the [Nazi economic] recovery was a product of a specific fascist economic strategy, which distinguished it from the recovery efforts of other capitalist states. While few would disagree that the Nazi regime had a number of clear ideological preferences when it came to the economy, the policies pursued in 1933 had much in common with those adopted in other countries, and with the policies of the pre-Hitler governments.

  Richard Overy

  Country, Recovery, Numbers

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• I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Matter, Facts

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.17, Princeton University Press

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• I like the poem on the page and not at the podium. I like to address the poem in peace and quiet, not on the edge of a folding chair with a full bladder. I can't stand hearing a poem that I can't see. I did a reading at Wayne State, and it ended with the comedy such occasions deserve. I'd seated myself on a piano bench, and discovered upon attempting to arise at the end that the varnish had softened and I was stuck fast. The hinge was to the front, under my knees, so that as I tried to get up, I merely opened the lid.

  Ted Kooser

  Reading, Piano, Benches

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• I strongly believe that a small Jewish clique which has contempt for the mass of Jewish people worked with non-Jews to create the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the Second World War. This Jewish/non-Jewish Elite used the First World War to secure the Balfour Declaration and the principle of the Jewish State of Israel.

  David Icke

  Business, War, Believe

  "And the Truth Shall Set You Free". Book by David Icke, 1995.

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• No future historian of the United States will be able to use quotations from her twentieth-century poets in support of an imperial policy of conquest and slaughter.

  Alice Corbin Henderson

  War, Support, United States

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• Our intention to regard the closing of the Straits as a casus belli was communicated...to the foreign ministers of those states which had supported international navigation in the Straits in 1957 and thereafter. There can be no doubt that these warnings reached Cairo. One thing was now clear. If Nasser imposed a blockade, the explosion would ensue not from 'miscalculation', but from an open-eyed and conscious readiness for war.

  Abba Eban

  War, Doubt, Cairo

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• The definition of a security state is one that prioritizes security over all other considerations.

  Edward Snowden

  Memorable, Definitions, Consideration

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• Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that withers away Marx will have come true willy-nilly, so let's get on with it.

  Germaine Greer

  Feminism, Liberation, Ifs

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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