#state

I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them. ↗

— Ma Jian

#being #believe #chinese #chinese people #controlled

In my home State of Louisiana, several institutions of higher education have been impacted by both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, literally dozens across the entire State. ↗

— Bobby Jindal

#been #both #dozens #education #entire

Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We have lost a size of land equivalent to the entire state of Rhode Island. ↗

— Bobby Jindal

#entire #equivalent #hurricanes #hurricanes katrina #island

China and the United States have major influence in international affairs and shoulder important responsibilities in upholding world peace and promoting common development. ↗

— Hu Jintao

#china #common #development #important #influence

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play. ↗

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#breathe #could #culture #develop #find

China will stay firmly committed to the basic state policy of opening-up. We will actively and effectively use foreign investment, improve its structure, diversify its form and open up more channels and sectors so as to facilitate investment. ↗

— Hu Jintao

#basic #channels #china #committed #diversify

The monetary policy of the United States has a major impact on global liquidity and capital flows and therefore, the liquidity of the U.S. dollar should be kept at a reasonable and stable level. ↗

— Hu Jintao

#dollar #flows #global #impact #kept

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#had #happened #him #how #i

The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer's government. ↗

— Chauncey Depew

#been #government #lawyer #states #united

More than 60,000 jobs have been lost in the commercial aviation industry in the United States since 1999. ↗

— Norm Dicks

#been #commercial #industry #jobs #lost