#states

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

I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream. ↗

— John Breaux

#also #coast #constructed #contributed #downstream

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

The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo. ↗

— Art Buchwald

#automobile #buffalo #dangerous #everyone #him

Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition. ↗

— T-Bone Burnett

#around #business #civilization #competition #everything

In the United States Senate, we cannot do great things without reaching across the aisle and working together - and I look forward to the challenges ahead. ↗

— Richard Burr

#ahead #aisle #cannot #challenges #forward

Deep down, the Iraqi people want the United States out. And their self-determination should be respected. ↗

— Peter Camejo

#deep down #down #iraqi #iraqi people #out

If the United States were to cut and run from Iraq, we would send a message of weakness that would embolden our terrorist enemies across the globe. A failed Iraq would destabilize the entire region and undermine U.S. national security for decades to come. ↗

— Dennis Cardoza

#come #cut #decades #entire #failed