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.

Andrew Mason

Globally local commerce is a $12 to $14 trillion market. If we get 10 percent of that, we'll be very happy.

Dylan Moran

You're not going to learn anything if you're not prepared to go flat, so I'm very happy to go flat.

Anne Enright

I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.

Bill Burr

Actually they [ Netflix] were telling us to push it further and I've never gotten a nod like that from anybody in the industry, so it's been awesome to work with them. I'm very happy where we're at.

Jilly Cooper

I'm basically a very happy person and I don't have to be anybody else.

Esther Hicks

I'm going to be very happy, and then do everything I have time to do after that.

Elton John

I'm very relaxed. I'm very happy with my personal life.

Frances Bean Cobain

I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy.

Joan Collins

I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here.