William L. Jenkins Quotes

Throughout his life, Ronald Reagan believed America is capable of great things and its people could and would lead the way if left unburdened by taxation and regulation.

William L. Jenkins

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• Of all the powers conferred upon government, that of taxation is most liable to abuse.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Government
  • Abuse
  • Taxation

• President Reagan has no enemies in the Phillipines.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • President
  • Enemies
  • Reagan

• Al Gore is an heir to the old czars and commissars. He never saw a regulation he didn't like.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Never
  • Old
  • Regulation

• Capital goes to where it can escape taxation and be used to pay employees in sacks of rice.

  

  Walter Wriston
  • Pay
  • Escape
  • Employees

• Whenever government proposes to get involved in the regulation of trade, just be very, very careful about who's behind this proposal, what their motives are.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Government
  • Regulation
  • Proposal

• Stronger regulation and supervision aimed at problems with underwriting practices and lenders' risk management would have been a more effective and surgical approach to constraining the housing bubble than a general increase in interest rates.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Risk
  • Problems
  • Management

• Regulation has never really worked unless it's hate speech libel etc.

  

  will.i.am
  • Hate
  • Speech
  • Regulation

• What Heaven has conferred is called The Nature; an accordance with this nature is called The Path of duty; the regulation of this path is called Instruction. The path may not be left for an instant. If it could be left, it would not be the path.

  

  Confucius
  • Heaven
  • Instruction
  • Regulation

• So when you see a regulation against lead, because lead is a bad in a regulators mind, what does that mean? You are not telling us what is good, you are just tell us what you don't want, not what you do want.

  

  William McDonough
  • Mind
  • Mean
  • Doe

• Nor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given sufficient time to gather the fruits, a reduction of taxation will run a better chance than an increase of balancing the budget.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Argument
  • Defeat
  • Object

• Ronald Reagan's well documented final battles with Alzheimer's disease were fought with the same conviction and courage that his many public battles were fought.

  

  William L. Jenkins
  • Battles
  • Reagan
  • Alzheimer

• Dodd-Frank is the most restrictive financial regulation since the Great Depression—but it won’t stop another bubble.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Regulation
  • Bubble
  • Great Depression

• If eyes were windows to the soul, hers had been bricked up to avoid taxation.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Eyes
  • Avoid
  • Taxation

• Since emotional regulation is the critical issue in managing the effects of trauma and neglect, it would make an enormous difference if teachers, army sergeants, foster parents, and mental health professionals were thoroughly schooled in emotional-regulation techniques. Right now this still is mainly the domain of preschool and kindergarten teachers, who deal with immature brains and impulsive behavior on a daily basis and who are often very adept at managing them.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Behavior
  • Teachers
  • Trauma

• The reality is regulation often lags behind innovation.

  

  Bill Maris
  • Reality
  • Innovation
  • Regulation

• They have to embrace digital media technology and the Internet, instead of subverting it with regulation.

  

  Brad Williams
  • Technology
  • Internet
  • Regulation

• The only people who really love the '80s are millennials. We had Reagan and Bush for our entire youth, the culture was terrible, the fashions were terrible, the movies were terrible.

  

  Brett Morgen
  • People
  • Culture
  • Bush

• Wall Street billionaires are predicting that Roosevelt-style railroad rate regulation will sooner or later bring about financial catastrophe.

  

  Edmund Morris
  • Catastrophe
  • Regulation
  • Billionaires

• I have never written a word that did not come from my heart. I never shall.

  

  Nellie Bly
  • Heart
  • Word
  • Written

• The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for the future. The next step discloses itself only out of a discernment of God acting in the desert of the present moment. The reality of naked trust is the life of the pilgrim who leaves what is nailed down, obvious, and secure, and walks into the unknown without any rational explanation to justify the decision or guarantee the future. Why? Because God has signaled the movement and offered it his presence and his promise.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • God
  • Reality
  • Trust

• We all think we’re going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations aren’t met. But sometimes our expectations sell us short. Sometimes the expected simply pales in comparison to the unexpected. You got to wonder why we cling to our expectations, because the expected is just what keeps us steady. Standing. Still. The expected's just the beginning, the unexpected is what changes our lives.

  

  Shonda Rhimes
  • Sometimes
  • Wonder
  • Expectations

• You’re really a good girl, poor you.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Good Girl

• When I was about 13 or 14, I had an English teacher who made a deal with me that I could get out of doing all of the year's regular work if I would write a short story a week and on Friday read it to the class.

  

  Victor Salva
  • Work
  • English
  • Teacher

• Throughout his life, Ronald Reagan believed America is capable of great things and its people could and would lead the way if left unburdened by taxation and regulation.

  

  William L. Jenkins
  • Regulation
  • Reagan
  • Taxation