Barber Conable Quotes

• Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.

  Barber Conable

  Work, Two, Poverty

  Barber B. Conable (1991). “The Conable years at the World Bank: major policy addresses of Barber B. Conable, 1986-91”

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• Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.

  Barber Conable

  Father, Moving, Democracy

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• Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision.

  Barber Conable

  Decision, Exhaustion, Exasperation

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• Good environmentalism is good economics

  Barber Conable

  Business, Management, Economics

  Barber B. Conable (1991). “The Conable years at the World Bank: major policy addresses of Barber B. Conable, 1986-91”

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• I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.

  Barber Conable

  Thinking, High Heels, Decision

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