David Cay Johnston Quotes

In 1990, about 1 percent of American corporate profits were taken in tax havens like the Cayman Islands. By 2002, it was up to 17 percent, and it'll be up to 20-25 percent very quickly. It's a major problem. Fundamentally, we have a tax system designed for a national, industrial, wage economy, which is what we had in the early 1900s. We now live in a global, asset-based, services world. And we need to have a tax system that follows the economic order or it's going to interfere with economic growth, it's going to reduce people's incomes, and it's going to damage the US.

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• I sometimes try to think of my life as an Iranian, and it is hard to imagine. I am grateful for the life I have had in America and all the amazing opportunities and experiences it has given me. But there is a spirit in Iranians I can see that is unbounded by geography.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Life
  • America
  • Spirit

• The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Important
  • Family
  • Daughter

• We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

  

  Hal Boyle
  • Man
  • Worry
  • Race

• Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • People
  • Church
  • Jesus

• In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered by the other again and again, back and forth.

  

  Taryn Simon
  • Work
  • Back
  • Blur

• Just listen to all this sweet, sweet music. I'm working the music.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Sweet
  • Listen

• I just choose the scripts I want to work on. I don't know why. It's not something conscious or that I'm doing on purpose.

  

  Gaspard Ulliel
  • Work
  • Why
  • Want

• Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines - of molecular machines that are part of replicators - and so it comes from an area that already raises some of the issues that nanotechnology will raise.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Technology
  • Engineering

• I'm sort of a slob.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Sort
  • Slob

• Needless to say, if I knew my daughter would eventually develop a fondness for methamphetamine or crack cocaine, I might never sleep again. But if she does not try a psychedelic like psilocybin or LSD at least once in her adult life, I will worry that she may have missed one of the most important rites of passage a human being can experience.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Worry

• I don’t fear death. I remember my last meeting with my father when he told me, 'You know, tonight when I will be killed, my mother and my father will be waiting for me.' It makes me weepy … but I don’t think it can happen unless God wants it to happen because so many people have tried to kill me.

  

  Benazir Bhutto
  • People
  • God
  • Remember

• Postremo nemo aegrotus quidquam somniat tam infandum, quod non aliquis dicat philosophus.

  

  Marcus Terentius Varro

• They sat for a moment, regarding one another; neither understanding. As if we were two aliens, thought Blaine. With viewpoints that did not come within a million miles of coinciding, and yet they both were men.

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Men
  • Understanding

• Koresh certainly was guilty of something.

  

  David Thibodeau
  • Guilty

• I find the older I get, the lower in weight I go. It's harder to recover. Living in New York City, working a job that is unpredictable and at times stressful, you're lifting way more than your max because you need to push some weight around. You put an extra plate on for the release, and then you're sore the next week. Its stress release.

  

  Danny Pino
  • Job
  • City
  • Stress

• I guess I like a lot of directors. Or at least I try to.

  

  Jacques Rivette

• Revolution did not necessarily involve sanguinary strife. It was not a cult of bomb and pistol. They may sometimes be mere means for its achievement.

  

  Bhagat Singh
  • May
  • Revolution
  • Achievement

• Every comic went through their Mitch Hedberg phase - the glasses, the hair in the face - and you knew immediately when they were doing it.

  

  Anthony Jeselnik
  • Hair

• I don't write songs, play music and tour, really, for anyone else but myself. It's something that I have to do to stay alive.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Music

• The aggressive side of me comes across in my music, but I'm just a sweet girl.

  

  Pink
  • Music
  • Girl
  • Sweet

• The U.S. has the most advanced cyber-weaponry on the planet, and t if you look at the U.S. from the perspective of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, which runs most of its cyber activities, they look at you and they see Google and Facebook - the two largest depositories of personal data in the world - and they see the reach of the National Security Agency, which has huge digital capacity to know what is going on around the world. So the Chinese would see cyber as an un-level playing field, because the U.S. holds all sorts of advantages.

  

  Misha Glenny
  • Perspective
  • Chinese
  • Security

• I'm going to be who I am and believe in what I bring to the table every day.

  

  Brock Osweiler
  • Believe

• In 1990, about 1 percent of American corporate profits were taken in tax havens like the Cayman Islands. By 2002, it was up to 17 percent, and it'll be up to 20-25 percent very quickly. It's a major problem. Fundamentally, we have a tax system designed for a national, industrial, wage economy, which is what we had in the early 1900s. We now live in a global, asset-based, services world. And we need to have a tax system that follows the economic order or it's going to interfere with economic growth, it's going to reduce people's incomes, and it's going to damage the US.

  

  David Cay Johnston
  • World
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