#states

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client. ↗

— John Updike

#advocate #blind #client #president #sir

Originally created to serve the poorest and sickest among us, the Medicaid program has grown dramatically but still doesn't include the kind of flexibility that states need to provide better health care for the poor and disadvantaged. ↗

— Fred Upton

#among #better #care #created #disadvantaged

I grew up in the United States. ↗

— Dominique de Villepin

#i #states #united #united states #up

There are ways we can go do a better job of educating young moms and dads about the vital role they have as the child's first teacher. I think there are ways in which we can partner with local school districts and states to do a better job to provide nutrition options at school. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#better #better job #child #dads #districts

The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts. ↗

— Derek Walcott

#apart #estates #few #history #landscapes

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe. ↗

— George Washington

#day #europe #example #following #some

I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our fifty-two states. ↗

— Raquel Welch

#because #chicago #come #fifty-two #i

And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction. ↗

— Robert Welch

#distinction #hundred #knew #made #meant

I spent 22 years in the United States military, so I'm a pretty strategic level thinker. ↗

— Allen West

#level #military #pretty #spent #states

One good thing about California is we have quite a broad-based economy. We provide more fruits and vegetables and produce to the United States than any other state. So we have actually the single largest agricultural sector in the country. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#actually #agricultural #any #broad-based #california