Tom Vilsack Quotes

I think President Barack Obama is going to be treated very, very well by history in terms of his ability to save the economy. And that's certainly true in rural areas. The unemployment rate is substantially reduced, the poverty rate is down, and in large part because of the investments that were made during the Recovery Act and thereafter, historic investments.

Tom Vilsack

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• The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • View

• What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • High
  • You
  • Single

• Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• When I finally finished the 'Two Suns' tour, which went on for quite a long time, I felt like a bit of a husk. And I remember thinking, 'I need to spend some time in one place, and just be at home.' So I guess the first year of that three and a half years was spent just trying to kind of get back to normal again.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Long

• There are hundreds of books about Woodrow Wilson, but I have an image of him in my mind that is unlike any picture I have seen anywhere else, based on material at Princeton and 35 years of researching and thinking about him.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Picture

• Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county. The U.S. has more costs of litigation per person than any other industrialized nation in the world, and it is crippling our economy.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • World
  • Economy
  • Legal

• To be honest, I think about the clubs when I write. But I should probably start thinking about stadiums, because the songs sound even better there - and bigger.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Thinking
  • Better
  • Start

• Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Thinking
  • Positive
  • Better

• Make no mistake: Restoring our economy is very much a women's issue.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Women
  • Mistake
  • Economy

• With words woven into almost every detail of his life, it seems amazing that Mr. Mets' thinking on the subject of language should be so limited.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Words

• Our world is one of terrible contradictions. Plenty of food but one billion people go hungry. Lavish lifestyles for a few, but poverty for too many others. Huge advances in medicine while mothers die everyday in childbirth . . . Billions spent on weapons to kill people instead of keeping them safe.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • World
  • Food

• Now, the smoke fills the airIn this honky-tonk bar.And I'm thinking 'bout where I'd rather be.But I burned all my bridges;I sank all my ships.And I'm stranded at the edge of the sea.

  

  James Taylor
  • Thinking
  • Sea

• I love Milwaukee, the rust belt. It's a very special part of America that's full of promise but also full of pain, where poverty is acute.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • America
  • Pain
  • Poverty

• I don't know what's wrong with me, but like, the second I stop working, I have a panic attack, so it's good for me to be thinking of projects ahead of time and lining things up.

  

  Katie Aselton
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Thinking

• I'm thinking, 'Man, there's this whole other group of people that are attached to me because of my last name and my family's roots.' That's pretty cool. That's special, that's a lot of power and it's important.

  

  Mark Sanchez
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.

  

  Mary Chapin Carpenter
  • Travel
  • Poverty

• I got into writing and thinking about politics because I was told there would be no math.

  

  Jeff Greenfield
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Math

• The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Men
  • Care

• There's no such thing as standing still and just singing a song. I love jumping into the crowd. I love to dance.

  

  Thomas Rhett
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Dance

• Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough to tell me that the genesis of this story was worth exploring.

  

  Charles Guggenheim

• One thing that was very clear to me is that the young people in a place like Annawadi aren't tripping on caste the way their parents are. They know their parents have these old views.

  

  Katherine Boo
  • People
  • Parents

• I think President Barack Obama is going to be treated very, very well by history in terms of his ability to save the economy. And that's certainly true in rural areas. The unemployment rate is substantially reduced, the poverty rate is down, and in large part because of the investments that were made during the Recovery Act and thereafter, historic investments.

  

  Tom Vilsack
  • Thinking
  • Poverty
  • President