#state

I considered myself engaged in a war from Day One. And my objective was to force the federal government - the Kennedy administration at that time - into a position where they would have to use the United States military force to enforce my rights as a citizen. ↗

— James Meredith

#citizen #considered #day #enforce #engaged

In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#attributes #criticism #every #getting #greater

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease. ↗

— Nancy Mitford

#fall #like #love #love you #mind

The mayor has got to work closely with a wide variety of people, his city council, state legislature, governor, business community, labor community, president and the congress in order to be able to do this. ↗

— Marc Morial

#business #business community #city #city council #closely

But since September 11, we have made every effort to try to work closely with state and local law enforcement. ↗

— Robert Mueller

#effort #enforcement #every #law #law enforcement

We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason. ↗

— Barry McCaffrey

#behind #doubled #federal #federal level #last

There is an analogy between conservation and education reform. The coalition around education reform is the biggest bipartisan thing going in this state right now. We need to recapture the big bipartisan spirit for conservation. ↗

— Rob McKenna

#around #between #big #biggest #bipartisan

Washington State has a strong tradition of a positive relationship - positive working relationship between labor and management, whether in the private sector or the public sector. It needs to continue to be that way. ↗

— Rob McKenna

#continue #labor #management #needs #positive

People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time. ↗

— Don McLean

#ask #complex #course #did #had

You know, the state of Connecticut is... sometimes it's a provincial state. And I've been working very hard to get the endorsement of the people within our state, and ultimately, the ultimate endorsement is from the voters in the state of Connecticut. ↗

— Linda McMahon

#connecticut #endorsement #get #hard #i