Nick Hanauer Quotes
The most powerful forces in economics are not numbers or facts. They are prejudices and preferences. No amount of evidence will ever change the degree to which many of the rich and powerful prefer themselves to be richer and more powerful and others poorer and weaker.
Quotes to Explore
-
People in my confirmation process, on the right and the left, really loved that idea of having someone who's going to be in meetings arguing on behalf of the dignity of people who sometimes aren't represented in meetings. But by the same token, they have somewhat unrealistic expectations that I can kind of make my own policy.
-
My nephew has type 1 diabetes, and it's my goal and hope that in his lifetime there will be a cure for diabetes. There's no place better to give the money to than the Juvenile Diabetes Association.
-
My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.
-
I started making movies in the early '90s, a few years after I discovered 'the cinema' during a three month stay in Paris during which I watched 100s of films.
-
To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
-
Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
-
I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
-
The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
-
I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!
-
People need to take as much interest in other sports as they take in cricket, and that's where we come across a vicious cycle of performance, sponsorship, recognition, jobs and TV visibility. It's a typical chicken-and-egg story; each one is directly related to the other without an answer for what comes first.
-
We owe it to all our veterans to make sure they have a chance to achieve the American Dream, just like the rest of us.
-
I have to look at my career as 'it was what it was,' but I do wish there was more of it.
-
I feel like I ask people who have been in the industry for a while a lot of questions.
-
Obama said if elected his government would "harness technology to confront the biggest challenges that America faces".
-
Nay, it's not the Devil been leading her astray. It's books! That girl has been nothing but trouble ever since she learned how to read.
-
If I have given my all and still do not win, I haven't lost. Others might remember winning or losing; I remember the journey.
-
Imperfect substitutability of assets implies that changes in the supplies of various assets available to private investors may affect the prices and yields of those assets.
-
Who you gonna believe-me or your lying eyes?
-
We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards.
-
European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline.
-
An art, which has an aim to achieve the beauty, is called a philosophy or in the absolute sense it is named wisdom.
-
Bernie Sanders would say, "You still have millions of African Americans who aren't insured, and if we had a single-payer system, that wouldn't be the case." And that's true.
-
The most powerful forces in economics are not numbers or facts. They are prejudices and preferences. No amount of evidence will ever change the degree to which many of the rich and powerful prefer themselves to be richer and more powerful and others poorer and weaker.
