Margaret Chan Quotes

My argument is, whatever resources you put in place, compared to the possible economic loss in the event of a pandemic, is peanuts.

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• As digital communications have multiplied, and NSA capabilities with them, the agency has shifted resources from surveillance of individual targets to the acquisition of communications on a planetary scale.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Resources
  • Digital

• Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • Poor
  • Because
  • Resources

• So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • People
  • Country
  • Resources

• The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Rich
  • More
  • Resources

• Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Doubt
  • Values

• Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Long
  • Need
  • Resources

• One bipartisan policy tradition is to deny Americans the use of our own resources.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Policy
  • Tradition
  • Resources

• In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.

  

  Barney Oliver
  • Past
  • Earth
  • Resources

• Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Argument
  • Irony
  • Sarcasm

• I can make the argument that people who don't have the biggest ranges but have very unique voices, even if they may be pitchy at times... with the right record that's really unique and distinct, they can have big hits.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • May
  • Unique

• The strangest thing about the low quality of Internet argument is that effective argument isn't really so difficult. Sure, not everyone can be Clarence Darrow, but anyone who wants to be at least competent at argument can do it.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Quality
  • Argument
  • Effective

• Energy is one of the most precious battlefield resources, but it is risky and expensive to deliver in combat zones.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Energy
  • Resources
  • Most

• I do not believe wealthy candidates should spend vast resources in their own campaigns.

  

  Laurance Rockefeller
  • Believe
  • Resources
  • Wealthy

• I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Christian
  • Just
  • Argument

• Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Argument
  • Taught
  • Proof

• There is something about guns that inhibits understanding. It is not just that they can put an end to argument. They somehow generate beliefs that are obviously contrary to observable fact.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Understanding
  • End
  • Argument

• Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Great
  • Resources
  • Hubris

• I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Justice
  • Fire
  • Argument

• I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes ... Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point. Its utility is entirely in building an organization and getting the resources out to the poorest in the world.

  

  Bill Gates
  • World
  • Food
  • Care

• This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods. Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Prayer
  • Feet
  • Doors

• When you're good at something, make that everything

  

  Roger Federer
  • Everything
  • Something

• For years, we've grown dependant on American consumers as the world's spenders of last resort. They've kept Europe out of recession, allowed China to industrialise, and prevented global deflation. But at the same time, they've not been looking after their own futures.

  

  Evan Davis
  • Recession
  • Resort
  • Deflation

• My idea of 'roughing it' is when you have to have an extension for your electric blanket.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Electric
  • Blanket

• My argument is, whatever resources you put in place, compared to the possible economic loss in the event of a pandemic, is peanuts.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Argument
  • Resources
  • Pandemic