John Burns Quotations

When I have to mount a staircase I climb up step by step. If I want to go up ten stairs at a time I break my neck - and that is not my intention.

She appears to be so popular, in fact, that she could probably even be elected mayor, The job's open.

Mike will be a real asset to our team. Prior to joining ERF Wireless, Mike's career as an entrepreneurial executive in the communications industry includes a number of diverse management experiences that span over 18 years. He has a proven track record in business and government relations in the U.S., Mexico and Europe. He also has experience working with congressional groups, as well as the staff of the FCC, on telecommunications legislation and regulations.

Of course, Pol Pot in Cambodia, Rwanda -- things on a much larger scale than this. But this is pretty bad.

One thing that we do want to stress to the general public is that they should not be in fear of this occurring to them. This is an isolated incident and again the two did know each other and we are actively looking for Mr. Hernandez.

My arm is starting to feel good and I really wanted to come out and show them what I could do. For me, it's an honour to represent your province at the nationals. That's why you play. It's going to be the third year in a row for me and I'm excited about the chance to contribute.

My 90-year-old mother has used a similar voting system in Austin, Texas, and she hasn't had a problem in learning how to vote with it.

News conferences that two years ago would have attracted 60, 80 or 100 Western journalists now get 10, 15 or less.

I believe the proper business of a Municipality is to do for the individual merged in the mass what the individual cannot do so well alone.

I don't want boys to use bad language.

God forbid if something were to happen to one of them, it's going to be him washing his hands of the blood, not me. He can go explain to the family why he didn't sign this bill.

Remember the match girls who won their strike and formed a union; take courage from the gas stokers who only a few weeks ago won the eight hour day.

I think he's got the best chance of beating the current administration, better than (Steve) Forbes, better than McCain,

Voting should go quickly once people learn how to use the touch screen. It's better in a whole lot of ways than printed ballots. An election can be certified in two days. It should also minimize recounts. The old paper ballot machines would sometimes miscount the ballot and sometimes two ballots would go through instead of one. The touch screen will leave a paper audit trail and recover everything each voter does.

Those of us who have covered wars here and there over the past 15, 20, 25 years have to struggle to think of anywhere where we've seen such a relentless brutality,

There also will be other significant service and expense reductions, including reductions in staff other than from the (early-retirement plan).

There are a lot of people who can't afford to buy at today's prices. It looks to me like the market is headed for a soft landing.

We need to embrace the changes because it will expand the population of people who can vote.

There are screws in it, so maybe that's an indication for something. I'm just really curious.

The recent I.L.P. conference from which I had expected some change in methods and tactics has confirmed my previous views of its leaders.

We will also have paper ballots to help with the transition. We will be fully electronic touch-screen voting in November for the fall general election.

Very, very disappointed with the governor's decision. I am going to contact the senator's office and the assemblyman's office and see if there are enough votes out there to override the veto.

Conquering himself, he has learned that he can conquer the world of capital whose generals have been the most ruthless of his oppressors.

There's no national housing bubble, ... About a third of the markets appear to be overpriced, if that's the definition of a bubble. That means two-thirds are not.

The touch-screen system will verify with the voter if they voted for who they wanted. The voter will then push the button to vote.

The stars are aligned for another good year right now. We have a strong economy and very little construction (of new homes). That's a recipe for continued price appreciation.

This farm is a New England gem. But I think we can bring in more curb appeal.

This is a function of those companies seeing an opportunity to get in on the surging housing market. Obviously, the long-term demographics for people in their 50s and 60s play into this. Not everyone wants to live on a golf course in Florida.

You can't just buy a piece of junk and rent it out. What investors have to realize is that students are selective and sophisticated, and their parents are sophisticated.

This is the timing part. That's about the time those plants are really wanting to grow.

A blind person can use the machine and receive instructions on an audible track. We will have one of those machines in each precinct. This will allow truly secret ballots.

It's all supply and demand. There is no change in the demand in housing, the demand for landlords is not changing. But more people are looking for tenants. That's when the investment becomes speculative.

Eventually this will save us money by eliminating the old paper ballots. It's always been hard to estimate how many people will vote and plan to have enough ballots printed. That problem should be eliminated. We've had a trash barrel full of ballots left over because we had too many ballots printed and then have a low voter turnout.

Still more important perhaps, is the fact that labour of the humbler kind has shown its capacity to organise itself; its solidarity; its ability.

It's been years since we have seen any unsold inventory like this in Phoenix's new-home market. Too many builders went too far out and built houses that were too expensive.

I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.

I'm excited about it. I'm not sure how many applicants there were, but it felt good for my hard work to be recognized internationally.

In a real positive way, what it's required is that we stretch ourselves beyond traditional program boundaries.

I have talked to them at length about it in my office.

Home prices in metro Phoenix are down or flat now. Investors are selling. Listings are up. The market definitely is cooling.

Generating on-site is starting to make more sense.

I'd think that some of them are relying on local management businesses. They'd be private managers, probably not large-scale.

The Gentlemen of England serve under the greatest cad in Europe.

All social-service organizations have to look at what their skill sets are, what do we do well, and put together a response that's outside the boundaries of a traditional program.

I am not ashamed to say that I am the son of a washerwoman.

The Thames is liquid history.

I don't want to be married. I don't know - it sounds crazy, but in my mind, it's all connected. You get married, you have kids, you grow old, then you die. Somehow, it seems to me, if you didn't get married, you wouldn't die.

In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience.

I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.

The men who made the war were profuse in their praises of the man who kicked the P.M. out of his office and now degrades by his disloyal, dishonest and lying presence the greatest office in the State.

I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects.

I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country.

I must firmly adhere to the views I have held and practice, that Socialism to succeed must be practical, tolerant, cohesive and consciously compromising with Progressive forces running, if not so far, in parallel lines towards its own goal.

Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress.

I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?

For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.

Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.

My duty is clear and at all costs will be done.

Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand.

Don't hustle old people.

I don't want boys to use their pencils for improper writing.

Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.

I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.