State Image Quotes

Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.

The Beijing Olympics and the Shanghai World Expo show just how much effort China is willing to spend to enter the global stage. But while China desires to understand the world, it fails to accept its universal values.

The deal was we had to have people accompanying us and they would ask us not to film something [in North Korea]. For example, we wanted to film at a certain place and there happened to be a building under construction and it didn't look as fancy as the other buildings, so they wanted us to shoot where everything looked finished and made a good impression of the cityscape.

… in this day and age, brands are more powerful than truth and, inexplicably, blindly, Israel is letting itself be branded an apartheid state — and even encouraging it.

Utah is no longer considered a flyover state.

I think you'd change Alabama fundamentally if in six years someone said, 'If you want the best education in America, you've got to live in Alabama.' you'd change economic development, change the image of this state, you'd offer these kids an opportunity they otherwise would never have had.

You don't want someone to think you're from New Hampshire, because who cares about New Hampshire? You're basically just a pass-through.

Let us change the image of Alabama by changing the image of its officeholders.

If you've never been to Michigan, everyone thinks it's completely rural. It's a destination state. You don't really drive through; you're going there for a reason.

I'm from Texas, and Texas has a reputation that far precedes actual Texas, and it is irritating sometimes.

I'm always concerned about how our state looks.

In general I don't think the image of the state as a divinity is very helpful.

California is one of the most country-est states there is. We're really country.