#state

In various European countries, it is increasingly common for young men to live with their parents into their 30s and even longer. Why not? In the welfare state, there is no shame in doing so. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#countries #doing #european #european countries #even

Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#acting #also #apparently #argue #behalf

Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism and the free market, not the welfare state, produces selfish people. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#capitalism #free #free market #generations #increasingly

Compared to the United States and certainly a lot of other countries around the world... per year, Australians do see more films. ↗

— David Pratt

#australians #certainly #compared #countries #films

Elections do have consequences, and those we elect and far too often re-elect have forgotten how government works and for whom they work for, and that an ever growing, power hungry state and federal government are not the answer to the problem, but 80% of the time are the problem. ↗

— David Pratt

#consequences #elect #elections #ever #far

No one does a better, cleaner, or environmental friendlier, than the United States, when it comes to drilling for oil, gas, coal, oil refineries and fish friendly hydroelectric. ↗

— David Pratt

#cleaner #coal #comes #does #drilling

I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#began #i #immigration #issue #needed

I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#business #commercialized #i #never #north

Political activities in Russia should be as transparent as possible. Financing political activities from abroad is something the state should keep an eye on. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#activities #eye #financing #keep #political

Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#calling #i #i am #must #needs