#tate

If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire. ↗

— Edmund White

#america #contemporary #defensive #desire #did

Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane. ↗

— Ron White

#death #death penalty #express #lane #mine

People knew that Murdoch's media estate in the UK was too powerful and it was doing very unpleasant things. ↗

— Meredith Whitney

#estate #knew #media #murdoch #people

But if you're looking to be spooked by really tall trees then you've got to go to Washington State. ↗

— Dar Williams

#got #looking #really #state #tall

I am trying to get right with God. I'm sort of making a statement about the excessiveness. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#am #get #god #i #i am

A meaningless statement remains meaningless no matter how often it's heard. ↗

— Roy H. Williams

#how #matter #meaningless #often #remains

When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

#means #power #powerful #religion #remain

New Mexico has been, in the past, a swing state. ↗

— Heather Wilson

#in the past #mexico #new #new mexico #past

Community-based policing has now come to mean everything. It's a slogan. It has come to mean so many different things that people who endorse it, such as the Congress of the United States, do not know what they are talking about. ↗

— James Q. Wilson

#come #community-based #congress #different #different things

If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion. ↗

— James Q. Wilson

#been #before #court #done #gone