Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Torricelli

The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life.

Robert M. Gates

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

Wesley Clark

This is kind of hard to articulate, but in broad outline, the United States is going to do what the United States has to do.

Zhu Rongji

Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade

Nancy Pelosi

Yes, [I am accusing the CIA of] misleading the Congress of the United States, misleading the Congress of the United States. I am.

Henry Hazlitt

The tendency of welfare spending in the United States has been to increase at an exponential rate.

John Bolton

Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States.

Northrop Frye

We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States, but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours.

Kenneth Rogoff

Unbridled capitalism in the United States can't be sustained socially. It leads to tensions.

Henry Hazlitt

A hundred welfare programs, spending more and more billions, lead to chronic budget deficits, which lead to increased paper-money issues, which lead to higher prices.

Henry Hazlitt

Once the premise is accepted that poverty is never the fault of the poor but the fault of 'society,' or of 'the capitalist system, then there is no definable limit to be set on relief, and the politicians who want to be elected or reelected will compete with each other in proposing new 'welfare' programs to fill some hitherto 'unmet need.'

Friedrich List

But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.

James Cook

The more welfare, the more crime.

Larry Elder

The welfare state is an assault on families.

John Hagee

Mercy requires that we learn to love others, to value their welfare more than our own!

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

I do hope that all nations can live in complete security and welfare.

James Surowiecki

Corporate welfare isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Barney Frank

For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.

Patrick Marber

I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.

Edith Hamilton

A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.

Swami Vivekananda

Never even attempt to disturb anyone's tendencies.

Mercedes Ruehl

We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.

Ray Anderson

I don't think it's that simple. But historically, there have been some 'copycat' tendencies in the league.

B. F. Skinner

The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear.

Christine Quinn

I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. Which, the bigger the project you're involved in, the harder that becomes.