Jim Webb Quotes

I have decided to launch an Exploratory Committee to examine whether I should run for President in 2016.

Jim Webb

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• President Trump is right to welcome China's help in bringing North Korea's illicit nuclear program to heal, but he's also correct that if China doesn't go along, the U.S. can act alone.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Help
  • Alone
  • Trump

• I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Learning
  • Myself
  • Express

• Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Country
  • Respect
  • Responsibility

• The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Economy
  • Rich
  • Taxation

• My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Nature

• Numerous are the posthumous museums and memorials devoted exclusively to one artist, architect or author and designed to preserve or artificially reconstruct the namesake's original working or living conditions.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Artist
  • Working
  • Author

• We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Society
  • Risk
  • Pay

• The morning meal was served in traditional socialist fashion- very slowly, with the courses out of order so that the jelly arrived half an hour after the toast and the coffee didn't come until we'd called for the check. However, it was hard to be angry at a place that had ice cream, beer, and cigarettes on its breakfast menu.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Fashion
  • Morning
  • Angry

• It did not matter, after all. He was only one man. One man’s fate is not important.'If it is not, what is?'He could not endure those remembered words.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Important
  • Words
  • Fate

• 'And the sad fact is that all nanotech life out of our control-out of anyone’s control. The essence of nanotech life’s evolution is autonomy, self-will, and goals which have nothing to do with those of the harboring life form.''Humanity, you mean,' said Lourdusamy.'Precisely.'

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Life
  • Control
  • Humanity

• The formula for the parameters of a unilateral solution are: To maximize the number of Jews; to minimize the number of Palestinians; not to withdraw to the 1967 border and not to divide Jerusalem.

  

  Ehud Olmert

• You ask particularly after my health. I suppose that I have not many months to live; but, of course, I know nothing about it. I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Live
  • May
  • Health

• We see in tragedy the noblest men, after a long conflict and suffering, finally renounce forever all the pleasure of life and the aims till then pursued so keenly, or cheerfully and willingly give up life itself.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Men

• During the playoffs, I tone down the Internet usage.

  

  Blake Griffin

• Even if you can't afford to travel the world, you can take your children to the museum, zoo or local park. And don't be afraid to take them to grown-up spots. Eating out in a restaurant teaches children how to be quiet and polite and gives them the pleasure of knowing you trust them to behave.

  

  Kimora Lee Simmons
  • Up
  • World
  • Children

• I believe that the death penalty is an effective penalty.

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • Believe
  • Death

• You just have to surround yourself with people who are going to support and love you before trying to sell you as a product, or push you into something you don't want to do.

  

  Jamie Bell
  • People
  • Trying
  • Support

• Owning pets is as close to a universal phenomenon as, I think, anything.

  

  Chris Meledandri

• My first summer at a repertory theater, I was making $20 a week. I was making a living, as far as I was concerned, and I was doing theater. And next season, I made $40 a week. But I don't think anyone in my family would have considered that making a living.

  

  David Morse
  • Family
  • Summer

• The tax that was supposed to soak the rich has instead soaked America. The beneficiary of the income tax has not been the poor, but big government. The income tax has given us a government bureaucracy that outnumbers the manufacturing work force. It has created welfare dependencies that have entrapped millions of Americans in an underclass that is forced to live a sordid existence of trading votes for government handouts.

  

  Paul Craig Roberts
  • Government
  • Americans
  • Tax

• I've worked with a lot of real heavy hitters, and Quentin is maybe heads and shoulders, at least a forehead, above just about anybody I've ever worked with.

  

  David Carradine
  • Real

• The number of great museums and nonprofits versus the number of corporate headquarters is incredibly out of whack.

  

  Richard Stengel
  • Numbers
  • Museums
  • Corporate

• People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • People
  • Want
  • Know

• I have decided to launch an Exploratory Committee to examine whether I should run for President in 2016.

  

  Jim Webb