#states

Judy couldn't move to Britain for family reasons, so I had to come to the States, and the U.S. government wouldn't give me a Green Card, so I airily told her I'd write a book. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#britain #card #come #family #give

But last year there were 540,000 people, roughly, detained coming across the border illegally. Forty-five thousand of them came from countries other than Mexico, demonstrating the fact that Mexico itself now is a pathway into the United States for people all around the world, and we don't know what their intentions are. ↗

— John Cornyn

#around #border #came #coming #countries

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

— Andrew Cuomo

#look #new #new york #other #progressive

Our educational results lag behind other states, and other nations, but worse still, behind the potential of the kids and the devoted teachers in our classrooms. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#classrooms #devoted #educational #kids #lag

The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#growth #itself #population #population growth #rate

Another part of the global war on terrorism that Canada and the United States are working on together is in helping failed states, states like Afghanistan, where people have no voice. ↗

— Paul Cellucci

#another #canada #failed #global #global war

We believe, as the President has indicated, that this combination of a rogue state that possesses weapons of mass destruction and has known ties to terrorist organizations, is a grave threat to the people of the United States and to other countries around the world. ↗

— Paul Cellucci

#believe #combination #countries #destruction #grave

I really truly worry that the debt is one of the single biggest threat to the United States of America, that we're talking about a problem that is multi-trillion in its depth and I think we ought to be cutting more. ↗

— Jason Chaffetz

#america #biggest #cutting #debt #depth

As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state was declared, I felt that it should have the rights of other states - no more, no less. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#called #declared #felt #i #jewish

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#impose #institutions #moral #people #powerful