#state

I don't want you to misunderstand me. You might get up and state what you believe to be Seventh-day Adventism, and I might not agree with everything you said. ↗

— John Harvey Kellogg

#believe #everything #get #i #me

The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#concentration #court #death #execution #method

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#except #mattered #mind #nothing #our

Bahrainis are better off than many other Arabs. We have a welfare state, everybody gets a salary whether they have a job or not. Electricity and food are subsidized; school and healthcare are free. And we don't differentiate between Bahrainis and foreigners. We are very proud of that. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#better #better off #between #differentiate #electricity

We are a constitutional monarchy. I don't order laws, I propose them. Article 35 of our constitution states that the king can only refuse a law of parliament once, then he has to sign it - if the same law is then supported by a two-thirds majority in both houses of parliament. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#both #constitution #constitutional #houses #i

The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

#again #clause #commerce #conservatives #court

So, anything that avoids a conflict that could draw in, unhappily again, outside powers such as the United States or revisit, for example, Japan's interests in the Taiwan area would be the last thing that anyone would want. ↗

— William Kirby

#anyone #anything #area #avoids #conflict

The most important thing that certainly the United States and other Asian and Pacific actors have done is to urge that whatever happens, however the dispute is resolved, that it be resolved peacefully. ↗

— William Kirby

#certainly #dispute #done #happens #however

There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state. ↗

— William Kirby

#definition #political #political science #question #science

You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime. ↗

— William Kirby

#always #argue #calculation #conflict #could