States Are Laboratories Quotes & Sayings

If I were president, I would want to spend a lot of time going to the legislatures and telling them about best practices, whether it's about fighting poverty, whether it's about educating kids. The states are the laboratories where we can see what works. And I think presidents can have a much better relationship with legislatures. — John Kasich

The worst part is doubt. When you doubt yourself, which we are taught to do, you get lost. — Kevin Eubanks

I think I will be a great president having to do with the military and also having to do with taking care of our vets. — Donald Trump

There is no greater hiding place for a secret than within the mind of a madman. — Alexander Ferrick

The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas. — Nicholas Negroponte

I am sorry that the distinguished leader of the Republican Party in the House states that he is not versed in botany and publicly admits that he does not know anything of these terms or what it is all about; but, Mr. Chairman, it is indeed a sad day for the people of this country when we must close the doors of the laboratories doing research work for the people of the United States. — Fiorello H. La Guardia

To some degree, you control your life by controlling your time. — Conrad Hilton

Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war. — Wendell Berry

Your co-orbital anti-satellite weapon is designed to destroy satellites. Furthermore, the Soviet Union began research in defenses utilizing directed energy before the United States did and seems well along in research (and incidentally, some testing outside laboratories) of lasers and other forms of directed energy. I do not point this out in reproach or suggest these activities are in violation of agreements, but if we were to follow your logic to the effect that what you call space-strike weapons would only be developed by a country planning a first strike, what would we think? — Ronald Reagan

Learn how to be a loser, because it's important to be a loser to be a winner. — Sanford I. Weill

And so far, their most recent results had been perfect. Their meetings in Germany and Switzerland had gone brilliantly. The testing done in their laboratories there was even more rigorous than what had been done in the States. They were sure now. It was safe. They could move ahead to Phase One Human Trials, as soon as the FDA approved it, which meant giving low doses of the medication to a select number of willing, well-informed subjects, and seeing how they fared. — Danielle Steel

I am telling you three times. — Patrick Rothfuss

Some people make enough, some people don't, and it has nothing to do with their paycheck. — Janene Murphy

I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason. — Caleb Carr

Look at the people whom you admire most in your field. And literally map it out. Here are the four people that are doing great work at the organizations I respect. And just reach out. If you decided to contact one person a week, that would be fifty-two new people in a year. And it starts with that, just reaching out to someone because you admire their work, or are inspired by it. I've never met a person, no matter how well-known, who hasn't been flattered by an authentic compliment. Professional love letters work. — Jocelyn K. Glei

To me, nothing is more fascinating or theatrical than real life. These people are in dire situations, where something extreme has happened in their lives. — Debra Messing

The US States are our laboratories of democracy. — Louis D. Brandeis

I think he should let me run Ohio. He should let us, the legislature, the members there, we should be running Ohio. The states are the laboratories out here, and I think the president needs to mind to the problems that he has in Washington. — John Kasich

The Connection Machines owned by the United States government laboratories were made available to me because they were considered impossible to program and there was no great demand for them at that time. — Philip Emeagwali

He [Louis Brandais] did believe in the states famously as laboratories of democracy, to use that resonant phrase that Tea Party and conservative libertarians have embraced today because he loves state experimentation. — Jeffrey Rosen

Tax is citizenship's rent. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

She used to sit long hours upon the beach, gazing intently on the waves as they chafed with perpetual motion against the pebbly shore, - or she looked out upon the more distant heave, and sparkle against the sky, and heard, without being conscious of hearing, the eternal psalm, which went up continually. — Elizabeth Gaskell

The United States was of an anti-intellectual bent. And yet the two most technologically advanced laboratories in the world, as far as Paul could tell, were no longer in Paris's Louvre or London's Burlington House. They were now in Menlo Park, New Jersey, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They were operated by two self-made men with no formal training at all. — Graham Moore

In war, as in love, we must come into contact before we triumph. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Groundless superstition ill befits an army; valor is the only deity that rules in the warrior's breast. — Silius Italicus