State Obligation Quotes

It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.

I'm a United States senator, and I have a responsibility to the people of my state - also to the people of this country.

Bilingualism is not an imposition on the citizens - it is an imposition on the state.

One area of law more than any other besmirches the constitutional vision of human dignity. . . . The barbaric death penalty violates our Constitution. Even the most vile murderer does not release the state from its obligation to respect dignity, for the state does not honor the victim by emulating his murderer. Capital punishment's fatal flaw is that it treats people as objects to be toyed with and discarded. . . . One day the Court will outlaw the death penalty. Permanently.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

I don't apologize for looking after New Jersey's interests. That's an obligation that I'll always keep.

The first responsibility of the state is to guarantee the safety of the people.

The state is obliged to fight corruption within the government.

Refugee problems can only be solved in the region (of origin) - maybe with a little help from the UN. Governments must provide something for their countries. They need to deliver.

Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

In relation to the immense sacrifices that the state demands of the individual through the blood tax, it seems rather incidental whether it compensates the soldier more or less abundantly for the loss of time that he suffers from his military-service obligation.

But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society.

The climate issue is for the state. It is an obligation for all governments.

The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.

The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fails to do so is a government unworthy to lead.

The obligation of the state is to guarantee freedom of religion, and that implies dealing with all of them on an equal footing.

Our country and state have a special obligation to work toward the stabilization of our own population so as to credibly lead other parts of the world toward population stabilization.