James Cook Quotes
The idea that government can instruct private enterprise on how to eliminate waste is preposterous.James Cook
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I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.
Iain Sinclair -
'The Crumbling of America' should be required viewing for local and national government, not to mention the local and national media who should be keeping their feet to the fire on guarding against disaster.
Rachel Sklar -
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Abraham Lincoln -
The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it.
Tao Lin -
The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
Walter Bagehot -
I like the idea of the comedy of resilience.
Oscar Isaac
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The inertia of the governed cannot be disentangled from the indifference of the government. American leaders have both a circular and a deliberate relationship to public opinion.
Samantha Power -
In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
Jackie Robinson -
When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
Isaac Asimov -
I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.
Mackenzie Astin -
What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.
Barack Obama -
If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?
Victoria Woodhull
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Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.
Samuel Freeman Miller -
After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your travel.
Adam Cohen -
I'm still not used to the idea of being the youngest circumnavigator.
Laura Dekker -
It's not just that government has failed us. It's not just that we have failed ourselves. It's government. It's individuals. It's sort of everything in between, from families and communities and neighborhoods, churches and so forth.
J. D. Vance -
I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.
Lajos Kossuth -
God is not separate from anything, or anyone. So it's impossible to prevent God from being visible in our government.
Yehuda Berg
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I keep reading things in papers and hearing things on open line shows that are just blather as far as I'm concerned and therefore I thought it was very important to reiterate the point
Anne McLellan -
I'd be nervous about skiing, wondering what I'd do if I felt shaky on top of a mountain; but other diabetics do ski, so there's no reason I couldn't.
Dana Hill -
What would life be like if everybody insisted you must have actually built such-and-such a thing by yourself? I'd be an old man and have nothing to show for the aging.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -
The idea that government can instruct private enterprise on how to eliminate waste is preposterous.
James Cook