Quotes About Statehood

#1. Islam doesn't have a monopoly on violence in Africa. And violence plays a particularly critical role in places where statehood is weak at best, such as the Maghreb.

Eliza Griswold

#2. Bryant Gumbel's ego has applied for statehood. And if it's accepted, it will be the fifth-largest.

Willard Scott

#3. Land in Hawaii is money. What I'm talking about here is ceded land - land that belonged to the kingdom and was ceded to the republic and then to the state when we achieved statehood.

Neil Abercrombie

#4. Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.

Jesse Jackson

#5. The roots of our statehood go back more than two millennia and two centuries to the origins of the Hun Empire. Building upon the legacies and power of the Huns, Mongols had built the largest land empire in the history of the mankind.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

#6. I hope I will live to see a final meeting of the minds between Puerto Rico and statehood, but [even] if I don't live that long, I am certain it will happen.

Luis A. Ferre

#7. Palestinian militancy has accomplished nothing but increasing the misery of the Palestinian people. If Palestinians instead turned more to huge Gandhi-style nonviolence resistance campaigns, the resulting videos would reverberate around the world and Palestine would achieve statehood and freedom.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#8. The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism.

Vladimir Putin

#9. I believe the Obama administration, from the president on down, has taken a very weak position regarding granting Palestine statehood at the United Nations.

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

#10. Exploitation was rampant before statehood, and various factions actively tried to eradicate the roots of Hawaiian culture in the process of converting the natives to European religious beliefs. Some of the results can never be undone. We try to honor what is left.

Todd Rundgren

#11. Terror and entertainment are weapons of statehood,

Mark Lawrence

#12. Before statehood was achieved, Syria and Egypt had their tanks and military equipment lined up to invade Tel Aviv and destroy it; but the Israelis scrambled together an air force, some of it from old Second World War Messerschmidts, and the invasion was halted.

Steven Spielberg

#13. It's just a word and I feel so much more than four fuckin' letters. But you need to hear it from me right now, so I'm giving it to you. I love you, London.

Nashoda Rose

#14. What does it look like I'm doin? If yer the shy type. I'd advise you to turn around.
Oh! I turn ny back on him quick.

Moira Young

#15. I am honest, and in this society that happens to be constituted as mean.

Eva Morgan

#16. Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#17. No point is of more importance than that the right of impeachment should be continued. Shall any man be above Justice?

George Mason

#18. The idea of allowing corporations to have unlimited influence on our democracy is very dangerous, obviously.

Russ Feingold

#19. Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors.
All are continually asking, "What does this represent? What does it stand for?"
They are trying to take everything one level deeper. When they get to that level, they will try to go deeper again.

Steven Pressfield

#20. I both laid and sucked eggs? That didn't make sense.

Mike Mullin

#21. We have witnessed in the 20th century a tremendous phenomenon: the birth of the modern State of Israel. ...God is at work with His ancient chosen earthly people. We ought to pay attention to what is going on for behind the movement of nations is the hand of God.

Dr. J. Otis Yoder

#22. The black serpant of wounded vanity gnawed at his heart?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#23. First, you have to have fun. Second, you have to put love where your labour is. Third, you have to go in the opposite direction to everyone else.

Anita Roddick

#24. But I also wanted to give them an intelligent emotional journey, without having to suspend reality - to be able to look at those characters and see reasons for the relationships and why what happens happens.

Graeme Murphy

#25. Work hard and work smart, be passionate about your work, keep learning, and take advantage of the opportunities that come your way.

Janaki Krishnan

#26. But the Modern Utopia must not be static but kinetic, must shape not as a permanent state but as a hopeful stage, leading to a long ascent of stages. Nowadays we do not resist and overcome the great stream of things, but rather float upon it. We build now not citadels, but ships of state.

H.G.Wells

#27. I guess, a lot of people think is a long time between albums. It was needed for me. I went through a lot to get the album [Wild Things'] finished. I actually went through a lot to even get the album started.

Ladyhawke

#28. I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. Actually they gave me fellowships that paid my way, otherwise I would not have been able to continue.

Alonzo Church