#state

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind. ↗

— Mary Ellen Chase

#children #date #mind #state

The United States finds itself with forces of reaction. Do I have to demonstrate this? The Taliban's annihilation of music and culture? The enslavement of women? ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#islam #islamism #jihad #music #taliban

…My present attitude toward politics as it is practiced in the United States: it is a beautiful fraud that has been imposed on the people for years, whose practitioners exchange gilded promises for the most valuable thing their victims own, their votes. And who benefits most? The lawyers. (Chapter 4) ↗

— Shirley Chisholm

#attitude

Ever since 1945 the federal government has held and indeed increased its importance as the first customer of the American economy. Government spending had been the primary economic stimulant and to increase it had been the goal of hundreds of interest groups; hopes of balanced budgets and cheap, business-like administration always ran aground upon this fact. What was more, the United States was a democracy; whatever the doctrinaire objections to it, and however much rhetoric might be devoted to attacking it, a welfare state slowly advanced because voters wanted it that way. These facts gradually made the old ideal of totally free enterprise, unchecked and uninvaded by the influence of government, unreal. ↗

— John Morris Roberts

#government #united-states #business

Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States. ↗

— Don Baylor

#between #everyday #everyday people #extreme #most

The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#gas #natural #natural gas #states #united

The organic material, as the laws of chemistry state, can neither be created nor destroyed. ↗

— Dixie Lee Ray

#created #destroyed #laws #material #neither

I've always gone for the more understated look. ↗

— Nancy Reagan

#gone #i #look #more #understated

I'd propose that each central-city child should have an entitlement from the state to attend any school in the metropolitan area outside his own district - with per pupil funds going with him. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#area #attend #child #district #each

It is not difficult for me to have this faith, for it is incontrovertible that where there is a plan there is intelligence - an orderly, unfolding universe testifies to the truth of the most majestic statement ever uttered - 'In the beginning, God.' ↗

— Arthur H. Compton

#difficult #ever #faith #god #in the beginning