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government giving enemy
Alan Green In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government.
government favors corruption
Alan Greenspan In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
government purpose regulators
Alan Greenspan The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.
government support political
Alan Greenspan Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes. A substantial part of the confiscation is effected by taxation. But the welfare statists were quick to recognize that if they wished to retain political power, the amount of taxation had to be limited and they had to resort to programs of massive deficit spending, i.e., they had to borrow money,by issuing government bonds, to finance welfare expenditures on a large scale.
government self credit
Alan Greenspan We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures. Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.
government giving needs
Al Sharpton We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.
government america united-states
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.
government opportunity work
Andy Troszok We want the opportunity to work with the government on this.
favors greener solutions
Chiwetel Ejiofor I'm in favor of anything that promotes greener solutions.
favors company happens
David Dreman Favored stocks underperform the market, while out-of-favor companies outperform the market, but the reappraisal often happens slowly, even glacially.
favors immigration restaurants
Calvin Trillin I'm in favor of liberalizing immigration because of the effect it would have on restaurants. I'd let just about everybody in except the English.
favors discrimination bases
Edward Kennedy I favor access to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
favors want ifs
Benjamin Franklin If you want to make a friend, let someone do you a favor.
favors facts resentment
Benjamin Franklin You don't get somebody to like you by doing them a favor. That only tends to build resentment over the fact that they are needy and you are not. No, you ask them to do you a favor.
favors fewest game mistakes winner
Tom Inman This is a game that favors mistakes. The winner will make the fewest mistakes.
favors lap slugs
Barbara Mertz Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses's lap and began to purr. 'The creature oozes like a furry slug,' said Ramses, eyeing it without favor.
favors farming farmers
Jane Smiley How will you know a good farmer when you meet him? He will not ask you for any favors.
corruption ancient ancient-times
Charles Baudelaire In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times.
corruption foolish resorts
Benjamin Tucker It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to this necessity.
corruption good leader train whoever
Jeff Nielsen They have a good organization. They don't have corruption issues. We hire, we train well, so whoever the leader is they'll all do well into the future, and make us a better place.
corruption except fact hungry people public wire
Charles Sciarra Think of what you see now in public corruption: kickbacks and wire fraud. This is a joke, except for the fact that these people are so hungry for her.
corruption crocodiles stop
Tony Leon They say they are going to stop corruption at the ANC ... crocodiles are going to become vegetarians.
corruption costs country hurts lost major money opportunity paid people rules taken terms trust written
Robert Broadfoot It's not what corruption costs in terms of bribes paid or money taken out of the country. It is really the opportunity cost that hurts the country the most in terms of lost infrastructure and investment. Many of our clients, major international companies, just won't come into the country because they do not trust the rules of the game. That's the real cost. Some people have just written the place off.
corruption degree greater kuwait openness step talk
David Nussbaum It is very encouraging that in Kuwait there is now more openness to talk about corruption. If we have a greater degree of transparency, this is the first step but it is not the only step that has to be taken.
corruption fact notion rampant though
Dan Wilson It reaffirms this notion that there is mismanagement and corruption rampant - even though that's not in fact the case.
corruption culture
Norman Ornstein There's a sense that there is a culture of cronyism and corruption and incompetence