Steve Forbes (Malcolm Stevenson "Steve" Forbes Jr.) Quotes
As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.Steve Forbes
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Who controls the issuance of money controls the government!
Nathan Meyer Rothschild -
The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
Madeleine Albright -
One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term 'reform' is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various level of the government, in work practices and procedures.
Narendra Modi -
Government can wreck a business by confiscating its money by taxation.
Owen Paterson -
It is not hard to see why the FBI wants wiretapping backdoors. It would certainly make its job easier. But rejiggering the Internet so government can conveniently monitor everything we say and do online is too high a price to pay for making law enforcement more efficient.
Adam Cohen -
It wasn't until I was 14 and watched the 1976 Olympic games on television that I really started to dream about the big time. I remember seeing Evelyn Ashford in the 100 meters, and she was going to UCLA.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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For too long, we've attached some mythic notion to government solutions, and yet, 40 years after we began the War on Poverty, poverty still abounds.
Rand Paul -
Our port facilities should have the freedom to levy a market-based container fee which will provide new revenue and make our system more equitable to the American taxpayer and American manufacturers.
Dana Rohrabacher -
If I were to have a dream job, it would probably be a poet. Then again, I don't think I'm a very good poet!
Jack Gleeson -
Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.
Nancy Gibbs -
As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.
Barry White -
The Confederacy stands for slavery and the Union for freedom.
Abraham Lincoln
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America needs to be a place where all of us can feel a part of the American dream. But it will not happen by dividing us into racial groups. It will not happen by trying to turn the poor against the rich. It will not happen by asking Americans to accept what is immoral and wrong in the name of tolerance.
J. C. Watts -
No government proposal more complicated than 'This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private' ever works.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The more difficult a man's life had been before the camp, the more furiously he lied. This lie had no practical purpose; it served simply to glorify freedom. How could a man be unhappy outside the camp?
Vasily Grossman -
The search for freedom through sex is doomed to failure.
Camille Paglia -
I wouldn't dream of following a fashion... how could one be a different person every three months?
Edith Sitwell -
'Why are you so concerned about society?' That is always the question. And my answer is simple: 'Because you are an artist, you have to associate yourself with freedom of expression.'
Ai Weiwei
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Having grown up in Bombay, from the day you're born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.
Freida Pinto -
I got my degree in rhetoric.
Alex Borstein -
Work is really wrapped up with identity. Work is not just money for most people.
David Autor -
As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream.
Steve Forbes