![The dirty little secret is that both houses of Congress are irrelevant. ... America's domestic policy is now being run by Alan Greenspan and the Federal Reserve, and America's foreign policy is now being run by the International Monetary Fund [IMF]. ...when the president decides to go to war, he no longer needs a declaration of war from Congress.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-dirty-little-secret-is-that-both-houses-of-congress-are-irrelevant-ameri.jpg)
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American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security... or every loan they made? Aubrey McClendon
running fitness nuts
running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed: driving in a sealed car in warmed-over carbon monoxide and smoking a seegar. I am the Goddess! He is a bug in a monkey nut! Brenda Ueland
running way phantoms
This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer. Jane Hamilton
running breakup achievement
As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run. Barry Eichengreen
running spiritual fall
The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other two. The body isn't below the mind and the spirit; from the point of view it's between them. if you reside too much in the mind, then you get too abstract and cut off from the world. You long for the spiritual life, but you can't get to it, and you fall into despair. The exercise of the senses frees you from abstraction and opens the way to transcendence. Jane Smiley
running mean president
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running cutting perfect
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running moving school
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war
There is no good war. Bashar al-Assad
war world saving
Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
war people sovereign
There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people. Denis Diderot
war doctors nurse
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war egypt water
The only matter that could take Egypt to war again is water. Anwar Sadat
war winning world
The world only remembers the winners. Edmund H. North
war men steel
Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit! Edmund Spenser
war
We wanted this war and now we've got it, and I'm not sure that we know what to do with it. Michael Ignatieff
war
Well, I asked him who would start the war first. Samantha Smith
dirty drove home late mud school tried wonder
As a young boy, when you get splashed by a mud puddle on the way to school, you wonder if you should go home and change, but be late for school, or go to school the way you are; dirty and soaking wet. Well, while he tried to decide, I drove by and splashed him again.
dirty
Arson investigation is very slow, tedious, dirty work,
dirty mind terrible
A dirty mind is a terrible thing to waste.
dirty door shine tin
Even a tin knocker will shine on a dirty door
dirty gun election
I don't want to jump the gun. I don't want to talk about that. There's a lot of dirty pool played at the election, meaning the election is rigged. Donald Trump
dirty believe thinking
I think Eros should be dirty. In Greek legend, as I'm sure you are aware, he fell in love with the minor deity Psyche. It was the Greek way of saying that, in spite of what it may believe, Love pursues the Soul, not the body; the Erotic desires the Psychic. If Love was clean and wholesome he wouldn't lust after Psyche. Stephen Fry
dirty feminism dirty-words
Feminism was a dirty word for a while. Miranda Richardson
dirty compassion views
Compassion is not a dirty word. Compassion is not a sign of weakness. In my view, compassion in politics and in public policy is in fact a hallmark of great strength. It is a hallmark of a society which has about it a decency which speaks for itself. Kevin Rudd
dirty lows steady
We love dirty oral on the Down Low, but no going steady. Kevin Smith