“They could be thinking: 'This is perhaps the second time in a month that people associated with the Tea Party have really hurt us and we need to rethink things'. At some point, the national Republican party needs to decide: 'Are we going to be a majority party or go to the right, stake out that ground and maybe never hold national office again.”
“In 1640, the very first gun control law ever enacted on these shores was passed in Virginia. It provided that blacks, even freemen, could not own guns.”
“On the whole, I find nothing anywhere else... which Virginia need envy.”
“There was more vindictiveness shown to me by the Virginia people for my voting for Grant than the North showed to me for fighting four years against him.”
“I think Stone Mountain is amusing, but then again I find most representations of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson outside of Virginia, and, in Jackson's case, West Virginia, to be amusing.”
“Today, I offer the Commonwealth's sincere apology for Virginia's participation in eugenics. We must remember the Commonwealth's past mistakes in order to prevent them from recurring.”
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Virginia, oficialmente a Comunidade da Virgínia, é um estado nas regiões Sudeste e Meio-Atlântico dos Estados Unidos entre a Costa Atlântica e as Montanhas Apalaches. Faz fronteira com Kentucky a oeste, Tennessee a sudoeste, Carolina do Norte ao sul, Virgínia Ocidental a noroeste e Maryland ao norte. A capital do estado é Richmond e sua cidade mais populosa é Virginia Beach. Com uma população de 8,8 milhões, é o 12º estado mais populoso e o 15º mais densamente povoado. Mais de um terço da população da Virgínia vive no Norte da Virgínia, que inclui a jurisdição mais populosa do estado, o Condado de Fairfax.
