State Response Quotes

Because of Congress’s failure to act, States like Arizona have no choice but to take a strong action to discourage the further flow of illegal immigration through our borders.

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.

When you have terrorists, you don't throw at them balloons or you don't use rubber sticks, for example. You have to use armaments.

Fortunately, good policy, true principles, and effective leadership work whenever they are tried. When we reduce government, balance budgets, and keep taxes as low as possible, states respond in a positive way.

If we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won.

... true civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power.

We will definitely not allow the killing of our Iraqi Ambassador to deny us the right to have an ambassador.

If some people keep saying that the press is still not free in Turkey, then I would like to say this: there has been a coup attempt in Turkey. And there are people siding with the coup plotters. And there are - there is also media outlets that have been against - that are against the coup attempt. So my question is that against the media that supported the coup, will the Turkish justice, judicial system, not take any steps? Of course it will.

If you are asking whether states and state actors can only respond through revenge, then you are suggesting that diplomatic solutions are hopeless.

There is no moral equivalency between those who would kill using children, innocent civilians, children and adults, in their homes and in their places of worship, to that of a government that is seeking those terrorists before they can engage in that awful activity.

The diversification of the people's demand could not be followed by the state apparatus.

The judge decided in this case that both the state and the defense would have the opportunity to respond to certain kinds of press. This is one such instance.