#state

Our congressional district is the fastest growing in the state. Nowhere is there a greater need for new and improved roads and transit systems that will spare us the hours we spend each day in traffic. ↗

— Judy Biggert

#congressional district #day #district #each #fastest

I said to myself, where are we living? In the United States of America where you're innocent until proven guilty, or Nazi Germany with the Gestapo calling? ↗

— Tommy Bond

#calling #germany #gestapo #guilty #i

Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#contrary #diplomacy #end #far #globalization

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#england #graves #met #rule #stately

The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election. ↗

— Belle Boyd

#certain #consequence #election #individually #lincoln

I'm used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, for me a big challenge is to have people believe that I can be the president of the United States. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#believe #big #big challenge #challenge #frankly

And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#annual #assembly #binding #century #congresses

At Geneva, the neutral states were often in agreement concerning the preliminaries for Genoa, and Genoa itself was marked by a quite natural mutual exchange of ideas. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#concerning #exchange #geneva #ideas #itself

Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life, which was made possible in large part through the blood, sweat and tears of African slaves. ↗

— Corrine Brown

#blood #confederacy #fight #give #large

Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#because #being #democracy #dictatorship #discipline