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"We were really professional by the time we got to the States; we had learned the whole game. When we arrived here we knew how to handle the press; the British press were the toughest in the world and we could handle anything. We were all right."
"President-elect [Donald] Trump won 30 of 50 states, more counties since Ronald Reagan."
"The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it."
"Texas is not a state - it's a state of mind."
"Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them."
"I'm not going to throw my state under the bus. That's never going to happen."
"If 'Obama-care' becomes fully implemented in 2014, it's going to bankrupt states."
"Ill fares the State where many masters rule; let one be lord, one king supreme."
"It seems like there's a real appetite for science fiction in the States."
"I'm a descendant of someone bought and sold, and brought in 1619 in what was to become the United States."
"You could argue the banks are much better capitalised than they were going into the crisis, and everyone's in a much more vigilant state because they still remember the crisis."
"T is one and the same Nature that rolls on her course, and whoever has sufficiently considered the present state of things might certainly conclude as to both the future and the past."
"We tend to look at countries in terms of failed states and functioning states, which is rather simplistic."
"The United States is already antique."
"Sometimes I feel like I just open myself up like I'm a vehicle for something coming through me. It's like a meditative state I have to be in."
