#tate

I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#benefits #economic #i #line #out

The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has failed and the people have the right, indeed the people have the the people have the obligation, to act. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#declaration #failed #fails #government #indeed

The other states look to New York for the progressive direction. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#look #new #new york #other #progressive

Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of the great right of petition inherent in the People of the United States. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#extraordinary #going #great #heads #i

The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#cited #house #matter #petitions #proceedings

You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#awakened #constitution #conventions #debates #know

But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient strata and to the ebbing of the sea after the formations of new layers. ↗

— Georges Cuvier

#ancient #changes #earth #formations #layers

My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#arm #broke #came #elbow #father

I almost had to have my leg amputated because of an infection. ↗

— Dick Dale

#amputated #because #had #i #infection

I believe the way I describe the problems in Chicago is that it's a metropolitan area. I've said that everywhere. The uneducated child is not just my problem, it's the state's problem. It's also the federal government's problem. ↗

— Richard M. Daley

#area #believe #chicago #child #describe