#state

Every day, families in the United States face the stark choice between a roof over their heads and food on the table. Buying health insurance, owning a home, and saving up for college are just too far out of their reach. ↗

— Chris Van Hollen

#buying #choice #college #day #every

And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions. ↗

— John Grisham

#angle #been #congress #convicted #convictions

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#autonomous #between #citizens #external #free

The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family model. ↗

— Jasmine Guy

#approval #approve #aspire #church #family

Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#creative #creative writing #creative writing programs #foreign #foreign languages

States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking. ↗

— Victor Davis Hanson

#conventional #dramatic #event #lax #like

Today, barely 5 percent of all containers coming into the United States through our ports are scanned. ↗

— Alcee Hastings

#coming #containers #into #our #percent

Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state. ↗

— Alcee Hastings

#believe #church #floor #freedom #habit

I was devastated by the loss of my job in March, although I can understand why it occurred. ↗

— Steven Hatfill

#devastated #i #i can #job #loss

Nebraskans are known for giving of themselves and that quality is part of what makes our state such a wonderful place to live, work and raise a family. ↗

— Dave Heineman

#giving #known #live #makes #our