Ferdinand Marcos Quotes
I would like to see whether my supposed successors can really operate the government without causing a crisis.
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A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine in society, with an expectation to have our persons and properties defended against unreasonable exactions either at home or abroad.
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I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
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Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'
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The Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. 'We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage,' and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power.
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The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.
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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
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Migration - whether emigration or return - at the micro level is an individual choice, and government both at the Centre and the states have role only to facilitate the decision of the individuals.
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You see bands putting ads in the paper: 'drummer wanted'. I could never be in a set-up like that.
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Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk?
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I think it's about not just the crisis you're in, but how do you get to the other side? How do we heal? How do we survive this experience while remaining hopeful instead of filled with despair? That's what interests me.
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If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.
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If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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No government, no organisation, no citizen can afford to be less than vigilant in combating bigotry, intolerance and hatred. And frankly, our way of life depends on that vigilance.
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I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.
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No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
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I'm a very good friend of Stephen Crabb, I had great fun campaigning with Boris Johnson on the winning side, I have great experience working with Theresa May in government on national security. I respect all of them and I hope that's very much the tone.
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Sometimes there's not a direct transfer of skills from business to government, but sometimes what happened in business would be really bad for government.
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I think very visually, and I just never thought I had a novel in me.
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I always intended the title, 'WARRIOR,' to be about spiritual warfare and warrior lives outside of the cage.
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I would like to see whether my supposed successors can really operate the government without causing a crisis.
