Know the official post office abbreviations for all 50 states without having to consult a list.
Marilyn vos Savant

I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers. And I thank God that President Bush has stated, we need a Constitutional amendment that states that marriage is between a man and a woman.
Jimmy Swaggart

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

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union. Every one of those 15 new states faced a profound historical, economic, financial, social and political challenge.
Jeffrey Sachs

The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments is the rule.
Jeffrey Sachs

The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
Grover Cleveland

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
Herman Melville

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.
Vladimir Nabokov

A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him.
Gerald R. Ford

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.
Ho Chi Minh

I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
Bell Hooks

The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.
Al Sharpton

The United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.
Al Sharpton

One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.
Mortimer Adler

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.
Zora Neale Hurston

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
George Balanchine

I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.
John Updike

The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.
Adlai E. Stevenson