Famous Quotes & Sayings

Emily Greene Balch

The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically.

Eric Darwell

This says that things in Japan are on pretty solid ground.

Bunroku Yoshino

There was a possibility that the negotiations would come to a deadlock if Japan did not pay.

Jon Jovi

It's been 22 years of making records and I must have been to Japan 25 times or more. There's not too many things in the world I haven't seen.

P. J. O'Rourke

In Japan people drive on the left. In China people drive on the right. In Vietnam it doesn't matter.

Matt Groening

America's health care system is second only to Japan, Canada, Sweden, Great Britain, well ... all of Europe. But you can thank your lucky starts we don't live in Paraguay!

Paul Samuelson

Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism.

Pat Buchanan

We are thus in the position of having to borrow from Europe to defend Europe, of having to borrow from China and Japan to defend Chinese and Japanese access to Gulf oil, and of having to borrow from Arab emirs, sultans and monarchs to make Iraq safe for democracy. We borrow from the nations we defend so that we may continue to defend them. To question this is an unpardonable heresy called 'isolationism.'

Milton Friedman

Undoubtedly Internet has reduced the possibilities of taxation. Why should I buy something here if I can buy it from a company in Japan or England or Brazil with a lower tax?

Adriana Lima

I'm from San Salvador. It is small compared to Sao Paolo. We are really slow there. People work half a day and then go to the beach. People have time.

Abdelwahab Abdallah

They are observing the increase of our cropland and may become important suppliers, as Brazil imports over 50% of its needs.

Anthony Crescenzi

Rubin said that it is too early to talk about a Brazil rescue plan,

Paul Rogers

Brazil is no stranger to economic calamity. This is a blip.

Daniel Kammen

Brazil is a big success story in this.

Laura Bush

Brazil is a big, big, important country in this world, and the United States recognizes that, ... So whether it be trade ... or whether it be working together on the science and technology ... or it be promoting democracy in the neighborhood, the relationship is vital and important.

Peter Scott

Brazil has in many ways a very robust economy,

David Hartley

Brazil has been a disaster from the get-go. It's not a surprise they sold it, and it's not a surprise they didn't get much for it.

Ronaldinho

Brazil go into every World Cup expecting to win - so when it is in Brazil, it is expected even more. You can't understand what the World Cup means to our country. Not just the fans and players, but everybody in Brazil lets us know that they expect it. Our president, people in politics, all tell us to come back with the World Cup.

Robert Orben

Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?

Lyndon B. Johnson

In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier about taxation with representation.

Calvin Trillin

The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.

Albert Camus

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

Herbert Hoover

There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.

Adam Smith

Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.