#state

This year, we must address the Colorado Paradox. We have more college degrees per capita than any state. Yet we lag the nation in the percentage of students who go on to higher education. ↗

— Bill Owens

#any #capita #college #colorado #degrees

The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power. ↗

— Major Owens

#community #country #credit #dart #disabilities

We hope that the elected officials will respond positively to a ground swell of letters, phone calls, e-mails and visits from parents. The law clearly states that the responsibility for giving a sound basic education to our children lies with New York State. ↗

— Major R. Owens

#calls #children #clearly #e-mails #education

If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state. ↗

— Amos Oz

#both #both sides #burned #coexist #compromise

When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician. ↗

— Georgios A. Papandreou

#becoming #growing #growing up #i #never

I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#city #describe #i #people #psychological

If the Iraqis fail to implement the reforms, if they fail to get a handle on the violence, there's nothing the United States can do, militarily or otherwise, that can solve those problems. They have to assume the primary responsibility to govern themselves. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#fail #get #govern #handle #implement

The fundamental premise is that neither the United States or the international community is going to allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#community #develop #fundamental #going #international

The United States has to have the capability to deal with more than one enemy at one time and be able to confront them and win. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#capability #confront #deal #enemy #more

The United States is going to defend itself under any circumstances. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#circumstances #defend #going #itself #states