Mitch Daniels Quotes

I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic.

Mitch Daniels

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• I think pregnancy, like life, is what you make it. I received a good hand. I'm thankful and blessed and so peaceful and can't wait to welcome my son.

  

  Mara Brock Akil
  • Life
  • Good
  • Hand

• My grandma told me never, ever, ever to use soap on my face. But I do use lotion.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Me
  • Never
  • Face

• I said that when I establish myself as an artist that can do pretty much anything I want to do in music, I'm going to make a country album.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Country
  • Pretty

• The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days... I said, 'If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.'

  

  Paul Auster
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Crime

• As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Thing
  • Rule
  • Bizarre

• It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting.

  

  Steve Buscemi
  • Acting
  • Year
  • High School

• The only acceptable recipients of money from the GAA are administrators, coaches, security, bar and catering staff, hawkers, programme sellers, pirates, general scavengers, some managers... but no players. Stalin or Fidel Castro would love the way the GAA has and is being run. Even if something is wrong nobody questions it.

  

  Colm O'Rourke
  • Money
  • GAA
  • No Players

• We feel unbeatable at Ewood Park - even when we play away

  

  David Bentley
  • Play
  • Away
  • Unbeatable

• I've been busy with a long memorandum about the whole of our central Arabian relations, which I've just finished. It will now go to all the High and Mighty in every part. One can't do much more than sit and record if one is of my sex, devil take it; one can get the things recorded in the right way and that means, I hope, that unconsciously people will judge events as you think they ought to be judged. But it's small change for doing things, very small change I feel at times.

  

  Gertrude Bell
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mean

• I spend a lot of my time talking to the dead, but since I get paid for it, no one thinks I'm mad.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Time
  • Paid

• When you authorised Congress to borrow money, and to contract debts, for carrying on the late war, you could not intend to abridge them of the means of paying their engagements, made on your account. You may observe that their future power is confined to provide common defence and general welfare of the United States. If they apply money to any other purposes, they exceed their powers. The people of the United States who pay, are to be judges how far their money is properly applied.

  

  David Ramsey
  • Money
  • War
  • Powers

• My whole family likes to play basketball. George II plays for his high school team and George III and George IV and George V are going to be good players. One day we're going to have a team and call it Georgetown.

  

  George Foreman
  • School
  • Team
  • Player

• Absence of failure does not constitute success.

  

  Chris Alexander
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Absence

• I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic.

  

  Mitch Daniels
  • Decades
  • Arithmetic
  • Origins