#state

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#category #country #just #lie #moral

Oceans are one of the most important things in the world now and that is a national security threat of the United States of America, to be honest with you. That is why seeing the habitat destroyed is so short-sighted by us. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#destroyed #habitat #honest #important #important things

We were growing up in West Virginia. Everybody was poor there in the southern part of the state. It was like growing up in the Great Depression from the stories I hear people tell. Everybody was poor and so we didn't know that we were any different from anybody else. ↗

— James Green Somerville

#anybody #depression #different #else #everybody

Harvard produces leaders. People with Harvard degrees go on to become administrators in high-level positions in state educational departments and in public schools around the country. ↗

— Christina Hoff Sommers

#around #become #country #degrees #departments

I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-largest pipe organ in New York State. I loved all the buttons and the gadgets. I've always been a gadget man. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#been #buttons #gadget #gadgets #had

I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge, regardless of their background or life experiences. ↗

— Sonia Sotomayor

#any #background #believe #doubt #equal

I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities. ↗

— Sonia Sotomayor

#attorney #bronx #communities #crimes #devastate

It costs about $27 million to win a seat in the United States Senate, so when you win one, you like to sit down. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#costs #down #like #million #seat

Lawyers advocate more so than state their own positions. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#lawyers #more #own #positions #state

Well, I believe that when you are confirming a United States Supreme Court Justice, that it really isn't Democratic or Republican; it's American. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#believe #confirming #court #democratic #i