#state

We asked ourselves and the world to base decisions on good science, and I really believe the United States can be the leader in delivering that message to our international trading partners. ↗

— Mike Johanns

#base #believe #decisions #delivering #good

But I was always a bit of a gypsy, anyway. I spent five years at Oklahoma State, five years at Miami and moved on after winning the national championship, and five years with the Cowboys. So, I was ready to move on. We won back-to-back Super Bowls, and I felt that I accomplished what I wanted to accomplish. ↗

— Jimmy Johnson

#accomplished #after #always #anyway #bit

I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#american #democrat #freeman #i #i am

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#between #call #church #conscience #does

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#destiny #enduring #for the people #found #god

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#adversity #becomes #been #considered #easily

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#anticipation #change #happy #itself #life

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

Making records is fun. It's not some big statement. You're allowed to make mistakes. ↗

— Norah Jones

#big #fun #make #making #mistakes

George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#dead #foreign #george #george bush #heads