#state

The fact that, in the United States, there are people serving ten-year prison terms for growing marijuana plants in their backyards while Wall Street racketeers, who have defrauded millions of people and destroyed the global economy, walk free is a kind of bizarre hypocrisy that boggles my mind. ↗

— Mark Haskell Smith

#government #hypocrisy #politics #politics-of-the-united-states #truth

Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states. ↗

— Judy Biggert

#founding #founding fathers #issue #left #marriage

Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States. ↗

— John Bolton

#everybody #gets #interests #national #national interests

These people hate the United States, not for what we do, but for who we are and what we are. ↗

— Paul Bremer

#people #states #these #united #united states

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable. ↗

— Andre Breton

#affairs #because #despairing #desperate #everything

And instead of getting a pepper-and-salt effect, we find very clear and sharp divisions between the dialects of the United States, which are getting more different from each other as time goes on. ↗

— William Labov

#clear #dialects #different #divisions #each

But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there. ↗

— William Labov

#countries #covered #eastern #european #european countries

When you look at the world, everyone in the world who cares about his or her family wants to have a major portion of their assets in the United States because we are the growth country and the freedom loving country. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

#assets #because #cares #country #everyone

You know, without China there is no Wal-Mart and without Wal-Mart there is no middle class and lower class prosperity in the United States. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

#class #know #lower #lower class #middle

Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#cause #changeless #changes #did #indeed