#states

In my home State of Texas, the Port of Houston operates as the United States' top port for foreign tonnage and our second largest for total tonnage, so I know how important this bill is for the protection of the American people. ↗

— Michael McCaul

#american people #bill #foreign #home #home state

It means a lot to be back in New York. Particularly since one of the last senior event scheduled in the States was supposed to be here in New York. We were supposed to play in Central Park right after 9-11 and when 9-11 happened obviously things changed. ↗

— John McEnroe

#back #central #central park #changed #event

Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme. ↗

— Robert McNamara

#could #global #itself #neither #nor

John Wayne was one of the greatest ambassadors for the United States that ever lived. ↗

— Maureen O'Hara

#greatest #john #john wayne #lived #states

By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men - infantry, artillery, and cavalry. ↗

— James Monroe

#cavalry #department #estimated #force #infantry

From several of the Indian tribes inhabiting the country bordering on Lake Erie purchases have been made of lands on conditions very favorable to the United States, and, as it is presumed, not less so to the tribes themselves. ↗

— James Monroe

#bordering #conditions #country #erie #favorable

The States which form the northern border of the United States westward from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast include an area several times larger than France and could contain ten Englands and still have room to spare. ↗

— John Moody

#border #coast #contain #could #form

In the United States, it's the mandate of the FBI to gather information relating to terrorism, go out and collect it, to do the interviews, to do the investigative work. ↗

— Robert Mueller

#fbi #gather #go #information #interviews

The institutions of the European Union, and the states that belong to this union, each and every one, are paying the price of our failures, hesitations and contradictions. We should each ask ourselves how personally responsible we are. ↗

— Giorgio Napolitano

#belong #contradictions #each #european #european union

It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions. ↗

— Campbell Newman

#around #conditions #days #distributed #example