A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.
Thurgood Marshall

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
George Santayana

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.
George W. Bush

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
Benjamin Disraeli

No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense any more of its resources and wealth and energy than seems necessary.
Lester B. Pearson

Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best, providing it does not do so at the expense of any other state.
Lester B. Pearson

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

I'm in an agreeable state: busy, enthusiastic, curious.
Isabelle Adjani

As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
Francis Bacon

I will not comment on or confirm what are alleged to be stolen State Department cables. But I can say that the United States deeply regrets the disclosure of any information that was intended to be confidential, including private discussions between counterparts or our diplomats' personal assessments and observations.
Hillary Clinton

I think I will serve as secretary of state as my last public position.
Hillary Clinton

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
William Wordsworth

I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
Larry David

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
Calvin Coolidge

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
A. A. Milne

Sperm is a bandit in its pure state.
Emile M. Cioran

We've got to see a state where the Afghan government can handle its own day-to-day security.
Stephen Harper

A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one though who would attribute it to being man-made.
Sarah Palin

When oil and gas prices went up dramatically and filled up the state treasury, I sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged - directly to the people of Alaska.
Sarah Palin