Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ludwig von Mises

Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions...

Calvin Coolidge

We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.

Daniel Morgan

We know that government intervention in the free market, and Argentine history has shown this, absolutely ends in a boomerang.

Kathleen Turner

This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal decisions about her life.

Henry Hazlitt

A Day never passes without some ardent reformer or group of reformers suggesting some new government intervention, some new statist scheme to fill some alleged 'need' or relieve some alleged distress.

George Carlin

Nothing rectifies out-of-control market failures like a healthy dose of government intervention and mountains of bureaucracy.

Max Baucus

Global overcapacity in steel production can no longer be ignored. Foreign governments' intervention in steel markets has had a devastating impact on the U.S. industry.

Henry Paulson

There is no way to stabilize the markets other than through government intervention.

Marc Faber

What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Charles Spurgeon

You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.

Diane Lane

You can only be a virgin once. There can only be one first time.

Denis Diderot

A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it... Skepticism is the first step toward truth.

Denis Diderot

Scepticism is the first step towards truth.

Deana Carter

I never excluded any genre on my first record.

Earl Nightingale

We've got to be of service first before we can expect money.

Elizabeth Drew

[On newspapers:] A first draft of history.

Elfriede Jelinek

The first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.

Deepak Chopra

Forgiveness belongs to those who know how to love in the first place.