Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Moore

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Alan Green

In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government.

Alan Greenspan

In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.

Alan Greenspan

The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.

Alan Greenspan

Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes. A substantial part of the confiscation is effected by taxation. But the welfare statists were quick to recognize that if they wished to retain political power, the amount of taxation had to be limited and they had to resort to programs of massive deficit spending, i.e., they had to borrow money,by issuing government bonds, to finance welfare expenditures on a large scale.

Alan Greenspan

We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures. Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.

Al Sharpton

We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.

Andy Troszok

We want the opportunity to work with the government on this.

Dick Dadey

We feel that the interests of New Yorkers are always better served when there are well-spaced and well-informed debates.

Dave Fouch

She councils me just to see how lucky I am to have two sons who share the same interests I do.

Jim Newberry

Many of the interests the students have are similar to the interests of the community.

Mario Cuomo

Scott Stringer has a record of standing up to special interests and getting results for the people of Manhattan. I know a real reformer when I see one and Scott Stringer is the real deal.

Clint Eastwood

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

Zeng Qinghong

The prosperity of ASEAN accords with the interests of China,

Steve Johnson

Basically, it's the tourist trade that interests China,

Max Mathurin

Now that the president has been elected, the political interests at stake during the legislative vote are huge.

Madeline Albright

NATO'S fundamental purpose -- safeguarding the ideals, interests and territory of its members -- is unchanging,

John Morley

Three things matter in a speech - who says it, how he says it and what he says, and of the three, the latter matters the least

Scott Bisbe

I thought we would have probably split with Sickles and Countryside (the latter of which visited Mitchell on Thursday night). It's a tough district.

Dennis Washington

I always marked up a piece of paper before taking a job, looking at the pluses and minuses. If the latter outnumbered the former, I would pass.

Henry Charles Carey

In the period from 1824 to 1833, the tendency was steadily in the former direction, but it was only in the latter part of it that it was made really efficient.

Hosea Ballou

Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never.

Cory Booker

The joke I always make is I'm either running for reelection, running for Senate, running for governor, or running for my life. The latter is also a viable possibility.

Bill Callahan

He's progressing, getting back to form. He's not where he should be right now, but he could be by the latter part of the week.

Martin Heidegger

Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being.

Rex Stout

As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter.

Nancy Talanian

We want the local police to do what they were meant to do -- protect their citizens.

Jochen Zeitz

Unless the local community signs up, wildlife won't survive. And without wildlife, no one will visit.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

There are so many local nonprofits making a positive impact every day, and yet, oftentimes we don't hear enough about them or their needs.

Mary Mark

Make the most of your money. Use your local talent and try to have something for everyone's taste.

David Dunn

Since Sept. 11, the local police, our role has changed, ... Before, we were worrying about burglaries, thefts.

Ryan Julison

She wants to support her local tournaments. We're disappointed, but we understand.

Reuben Jr

We want to keep this project local. There are people locally who will invest.

Ricardo Garcia

We want to keep that money here, and we want to use local people.

Keith Cooper

We want to keep it local and we want to keep it Canadian.

Djuna Barnes

One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.

James Lovegrove

The process of being filmed was, I found, peculiar but not discomfiting. At 13, you are malleable, adaptable, better able to take the unusual in your stride.

Howard Bloom

Our planet has a peculiar wobble - its precession. And that precession produces upheavals in our weather, weather alterations we cycle through every 22,000, 41,000 and 100,000 years.

David Gerrold

Life has a peculiar habit -- once established, it stays. Sometimes it even thrives.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

Helen Vendler

I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about this work of mine.'

Henri Matisse

The sign for which I forge an image has no value if it doesn't harmonize with other signs, which I must determine in the course of my invention and which are completely peculiar to it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms. [Ger., Die Gaben Kommen von oben herab, in ihren eignen Gestalten.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms.

Ed Keon

When things seem very risky it often represents opportunity.

Twyla Tharp

My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood.

Jonathan Fox

No one represents their interests, here or in Mexico. They have to speak up and do it themselves.

Jeremy Osborne

He represents that person or that thing that everyone is waiting for.

Inder Singh

We view this as a particularly important win for Lucent as it represents its first large-scale IMS deployment with a US carrier.

Vincent Sollitto

This represents one of the more atypical inquiries we get.

Frank Taylor

That was between Rick Hamlin, who represents La-Van, and the Treasury Department,

John W. Snow

Social Security represents an $11 trillion unfunded obligation. And when I say unfunded obligation, I mean we have to come up with $11 trillion at some point to make the system whole.

Robert Clark

For myself, and a lot of other students, Gen. Powell represents what can be possible.

Kevin Potter

We feel that the system will get the word out when it's needed.

Ashley Montagu

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

David Hayes

There is a weakness in the system somewhere,

Paul Otellini

I think you'll see very aggressively priced systems out there.

Lance Lyttle

We've got to have just one system . . . it's a no-brainer.

Mike Claffey

Fortunately, the weather did end up cooperating, and it's all systems go.

Ram Dass

As one individual changes, the system changes.

Bill Belichick

There is no new system in place. I don't know what you're talking about.

Gary Anderson

We need a better dredging system that we have now.