Eric Greitens Quotes

The fact is, Missouri's budget is broken. For decades, insiders, special interests, lobbyists and prior politicians have made a mess of our budget.

Eric Greitens

• Politicians
• Budget
• Insiders

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Don't spend more than 10% of your marketing/PR budget on a trailer. Trailers have to be marketed, too. So, far too many authors wind up marketing their trailers instead of their books.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Up
  • Wind
  • Marketing

• I am not the candidate of career politicians in Washington.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Career
  • Politicians
  • Washington

• Politicians are trying to attract people to issues.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Trying
  • Politicians

• You will never see me dancing around the trees, chasing a heroine; I will never do films, no matter what the budget, for the heck of it.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Matter
  • Films
  • Dancing

• It's becoming increasingly harder and harder; there's no such thing as independent film anymore. There aren't any, they don't exist. In the old days you could go and get a certain amount of the budget with foreign sales, now everybody wants a marketable angle.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Independent
  • Sales
  • Budget

• What we do want to see is reforms that are going to have a permanent effect on the budget deficit.

  

  Ed Parker
  • Want
  • See
  • Budget

• You can find a lot of reasonable buys at Wal-Mart. But one key to making it on a budget is by donating your time and labor to the project. Do-it-yourself projects will always help you save.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Time
  • Help
  • Budget

• A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.

  

  Iain Glen
  • You
  • Film
  • Budget

• I was able to promote a strong defense budget when it could have been cut a lot more severely.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • Strong
  • More
  • Budget

• I am ably balancing big and small films. With every big film I do, I try to take up films that are high on content and small on budget.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • High
  • Small
  • Films

• I am cynical about politicians. My experience of politicians has been thoroughly negative. I have found that politicians are people that can not be taken at face value. There are very few politicians I have been impressed with.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Value
  • Negative
  • Politicians

• The $52.6 billion U.S. intelligence arsenal is aimed mainly at unambiguous adversaries, including al-Qaida, North Korea and Iran. But top-secret budget documents reveal an equally intense focus on one purported ally: Pakistan.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Focus
  • Intelligence
  • Budget

• Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Follow
  • Politicians
  • Aims

• If you can't get rich dealing with politicians, there's something wrong with you.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Rich
  • Wrong
  • Politicians

• Every line in the government's budget has its own constituency.

  

  Walter Wriston
  • Own
  • Budget
  • Governments

• There is no reason to believe that bureaucrats and politicians, no matter how well meaning, are better at solving problems than the people on the spot, who have the strongest incentive to get the solution right.

  

  Elinor Ostrom
  • People
  • Believe
  • Problems

• While our budget shortfall is temporary, ruining pristine national lands is permanent.

  

  Ric Keller
  • Budget
  • Permanent
  • Lands

• Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Honest
  • Interests
  • Politicians

• The Presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses; and [Zachary] Taylor like others, found thorns within it. No human being can fill that station and escape censure.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Escape
  • Politicians
  • Roses

• Since God is the foundation of my life, anything that streams from that can only be positive.

  

  Ving Rhames
  • Foundation
  • Streams

• Lincoln was a modernizer, so to speak. He believed in economic development. As a Whig before the war he favored what we would call infrastructure spending, government appropriation for canals, railroads, river and harbor improvements, and a tariff to protect industry. He believed in this market revolution that was sweeping across Northern society. He himself benefited from it in his own life.

  

  Eric Foner
  • War
  • Government
  • Revolution

• I can't take the subway anymore. I think I can still take the bus, though. It's a double-edged sword because I'm grateful that people recognize and support me, but there are definite downsides to that.

  

  Park Bo-gum
  • People
  • Support
  • Grateful

• I come from a place of sincerity. I write about what I see and feel. I write about what I want, I don't have a political agenda. Politics may enter into a song but it always comes from the heart.

  

  Brett Dennen
  • Heart
  • Politics
  • Write

• The fact is, Missouri's budget is broken. For decades, insiders, special interests, lobbyists and prior politicians have made a mess of our budget.

  

  Eric Greitens
  • Politicians
  • Budget
  • Insiders