Raghuram Rajan Quotes

Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.

Raghuram Rajan

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• If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

  

  Walter F. Mondale
  • You
  • Understand
  • Confused

• Wherever there's an all-encompassing 'always,' 'all' or 'never' in your life, it's a sign that your mischievous subconscious is setting you up for failure by consistently leading you back toward these repeat performances.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Up
  • You

• My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Day
  • Moment
  • Next

• Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Architecture
  • Very
  • Tough

• Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Real
  • Money
  • Strong

• When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Think
  • You
  • Dress

• It's those moments, those odd moments that you look for and sometimes by creating this kind of loose atmosphere you find those little moments that somehow mean a lot to an audience when they really register right.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Moments
  • Sometimes
  • Find

• Manners are love in a cool climate.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Love
  • Cool
  • Manners

• A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • Great
  • Real
  • Understanding

• Being single is only sad if you have a problem with your own company. I'm content with mine.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Single
  • Problem
  • Sad

• Unmoved though Witlings sneer and Rivals rail, Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail. He scorns the meek address, the suppliant strain. With merit needless, and without it vain. In Reason, Nature, Truth, he dares to trust: Ye Fops, be silent: and ye Wits, be just.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Truth
  • Nature
  • Trust

• The best assurance any one can have of his interest in God, is doubtless the conformity of his soul to Him. When our heart is once turned into a conformity with the mind of God. when we feel our will conformed to His will, we shall then presently perceive a spirit of adoption within ourselves, teaching us to say, 'Abba, Father.'

  

  Ralph Cudworth
  • God
  • Mind
  • Heart

• For all the dreams we've dreamed And all the songs we've sung And all the hopes we've held And all the flags we've hung, The millions who have nothing for our pay - Except the dream that's almost dead today.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Today
  • Dream

• I think if I had my life to live over again, I'd do things a little different. I was aggressive, perhaps too aggressive. Maybe I went too far. I always had to be right in any argument I was in, I always had to be first in everything. I do indeed think I would have done some things different. And if I had I believe I would have had more friends.

  

  Ty Cobb
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Different

• There's no one more willing to do something than an actor when it comes to perfecting a scene.

  

  Eric Braeden

• Life is something that happens to you while you're making other plans.

  

  Margaret Millar
  • Life

• I am always saying, 'I don't believe in God; I believe in Al Pacino.' And that's true. If I ever get a phone call saying 'Would you like to work with Al Pacino?' I would go crazy.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • Work
  • God
  • Believe

• From 2002-2008, Planned Parenthood received $342 million in federal taxpayer money through Title X funding alone. With these funds, Planned Parenthood has provided women throughout the U.S. with important family planning and contraceptive services as well as screening for breast and cervical cancers for low-income women.

  

  Lisa Murkowski
  • Important
  • Women
  • Family

• If you look at countries that are comparable, like Switzerland or Germany, for example, they have mixed systems. They don't have just a single-payer system, but they have very clear controls over budgeting and accountability.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Accountability
  • Controls
  • Budgeting

• When corruption is king, there is no accountability of leadership and no trust in authority. Society devolves to the basic units of family and self, to the basic instincts of getting what you can when you can, because you don't believe anything better will ever come along. And when the only horizon is tomorrow, how can you care about the kind of nation you are building for your children and your grandchildren? How can you call on your government to address what ails society and build stronger institutions?

  

  Nuhu Ribadu
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Society

• The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • People
  • Creative
  • Others

• Nor can they understand why a totally useless substance like gold should now, all over the world, be considered far more important than human beings, who gave it such value as it has, purely for their own convenience.

  

  Thomas More
  • World
  • Important
  • Gold

• I'd love to design stuff that I'd like to wear and that other people could wear, too.

  

  Dionne Bromfield
  • People
  • Design

• Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Accountability
  • Corrupt