Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Moore

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

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.

Alan Greenspan

In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.

Alan Greenspan

The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.

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.

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.

Al Sharpton

We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.

Andy Troszok

We want the opportunity to work with the government on this.

Charles Caleb Colton

If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.

Charles Caleb Colton

Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.

Charles Caleb Colton

If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Whatever keeps me from my Bible is my enemy, however harmless it may appear to be.

David Korten

Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Disarmed, I realized how easily you can lose all animosity toward someone you've deemed your enemy as soon as that person stops behaving as such.

Camille Paglia

The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.

Casey Neistat

Free time is the enemy of progress

Tom Curley

The perfect was the enemy of the good,

Tom Browning

With the players we lost, we were hoping we'd be happy to be able to put together a formidable defense,

Trevor Hohns

We have rejigged the one-day side to what we hope will provide a range of options to take on a formidable World XI side, as well as forming the nucleus of the 2007 squad for the World Cup.

Alan Cropsey

He's a very formidable personality when it comes to Washington, D.C.

Neil Stern

I think their strategy is to be as ubiquitous as Walgreen's. They're a very good operator, a formidable rival to Walgreen's.

Steve Perkins

He had better velocity than he's had and he had good location. Those guys are formidable hitters, and we knew that.

Barton Gellman

China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.

Craig Brewster

Matching their strength will be a priority. Regardless of who is picked, they will be a formidable side.

Joseph Smith

I think we're in good shape. Harbor's always a formidable opponent. We'll have to be ready to play.

Jerry Sanders

Were winning the fight, but they are a very formidable competitor,