The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.
The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control.
Of mediumship there are many grades, one of the simplest forms being the capacity to receive an impression or automatic writing, under peaceful conditions, in an ordinary state; but the whole subject is too large to be treated here.
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
The pain was considerable, but trivial compared with my mental state.
I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.
In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.
I'm not an education expert, and frankly I don't want to make education decisions for our state. But I am experienced at successfully managing organizations, and putting people on a path where they can succeed.
I truly believe the brightest days lie ahead for the Great State of Hawaii.
Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'
To the socialist no nation is free whose national existence is based upon the enslavement of another people, for to him colonial peoples, too, are peoples, and, as such, parts of the national state.