Branches Quotes - Page 26

• I think there's even a chance that [R&D and innovation budgets] might be increased [during Donald Trump Administration] and we should go and make that case to the executive branch, to the Congress.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, Innovation, Might

  Source: www.geekwire.com

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• If you understand writing as primarily engaging an imaginary reader, well, you've kind of been doing that your whole life. You walk into a room and you're engaging with imaginary strangers because you don't actually know who they are. For me, it was really empowering to say: this is a branch of entertainment and communication and engagement, as opposed to jumping over some perceived literary high bar. That was the buzzkill.

  George Saunders

  Communication, Writing, Jumping

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A fence can be protective around your family - a familial fence. Then, there are the people who only know how to take, to abuse, to offend and they build fences to keep you out. They don't have time to talk, they don't have kind words, they only talk about themselves. They never give an olive branch or forgiveness - they create a fence because of their personality or behavior and they want to create a barrier to keep people out.

  Russell Hornsby

  People, Giving, Personality

  Source: hollywoodlife.com

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• You have people talk about the media as a coequal branch when talking about Republicans. "You know, Republicans have to overcome the media, and then the Democrats." Wait a minute. Why should anybody have to overcome the media?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Media, Talking, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The Senate was the equivalent of an aristocracy at the beginning. Senators were not even elected; they were appointed in the early days. Then that changed, and senators did become elected. But the Senate is designed to slow down out-of-control, madcap activity elsewhere in the legislative branch (i.e., in the House), and the 60-vote rule was part of that.

  Rush Limbaugh

  House, Aristocracy, Vote

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The president and the executive branch are always going to have greater latitude and greater authority when it comes to protecting America because sometimes you just have to respond quickly and not everything that is a danger can be publicized and be subject to open debate, but there have to be some guardrails.

  Barack Obama

  America, President, Sometimes

  "NPR's Exit Interview With President Obama". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. December 19, 2016.

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• If you want to right-size executive power relative to the other branches of government, the best way to do that is to have a healthy Congress in which the two parties are debating, disagreeing, but also occasionally working together to pass legislation.

  Barack Obama

  Party, Two, Government

  "NPR's Exit Interview With President Obama". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org.

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• I don't want to pick on Deutsche Bank, but I think the world of the regulated financial conglomerate, it is a strange thing. There is nothing in common between writing checks and running branch offices, issuing credit cards - those are good businesses, but they really have zero in common with M&A advice. They're a different customer.

  Ken Moelis

  Running, Zero, Writing

  Source: nordic.businessinsider.com

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• I think there's always a role for Congress under every instance in every administration to conduct oversight of the executive branch.

  Paul Ryan

  Thinking, Roles, Administration

  Source: time.com

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• Leaking classified information is a crime. And if we have evidence that somebody in the executive branch is committing a crime, we should prosecute that person.

  Paul Ryan

  Information, Crime, Executive Branch

  Source: time.com

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• In the United States there are three parts of our government - the judiciary, the legislative and the executive - and the powers are divided on purpose. And that was - that - so that no one branch could run off.

  Philip M. Breedlove

  Running, Government, United States

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Democracy in many parts of the world is undergoing a very deep crisis. Politics is becoming a branch of the entertainment industry. People vote not for the best leader, but for the funniest candidate.

  Amos Oz

  People, Leader, Democracy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• My voice is my gift. And Pops had me using it in the right way. I had many offers to sing pop, to sing rhythm and blues. Pops said "Mavis, this record company want to give you a million dollars." I said, "No daddy, I want to sing with the family." And I did. I never wanted to branch out by myself. But I've had to now. It's my mission. I've been left here to do it. And I'm grateful.

  Mavis Staples

  Grateful, Voice, Daddy

  "Mavis Staples Interview: Staple Singers, Elvis Presley, Martin Luther King, Jr., and that one time in Memphis". Interview with Ed Masley, www.azcentral.com. March 1, 2017.

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• If you want to get an advance machine tool job today, you need to know calculus. We know a lot of people don't, we can't expect everyone to know calculus, what do we do? We created a huge bubble that created a huge number of jobs to build houses and to be in retail. You don't have to have a lot of skills to work in the new Gap store that opened, at the latest Starbucks branch, or to hammer a nail for a new house.

  Thomas Friedman

  Jobs, Skills, Numbers

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• [President Donald Trump] is doing exactly what he promised to do.When you come in as an outsider and you own no one anything and you're going to disrupt a bureaucracy that is so entrenched that the - you've got to just get it out by root and branch, the tentacles are so deep and so clinging to power, to status, to money, to position, to each other, you're going to ruffle a lot of feathers.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Roots, President, Ruffles

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• To me, everything is endless variations on other things. Like waves in the ocean. They continue to turn over on each other, and they're all slightly different. I don't know if originality is possible. Is it even necessary? Because everything is different than what came before, but it's all branches from the same tree. Originality is overrated, but what you do with things is always different.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Ocean, Tree, Different

  Source: thequietus.com

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• When you organize your work and look back at your entire production, it may feel like you're looking at a straight line, but in fact it's nothing like that. The work is very experimental and most of the time it develops like branches. I usually see a capillary, like a tree shape where there are... branches that sort of move because you're not tending to them.

  Vik Muniz

  Moving, Tree, Facts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Constitution is government's stop sign. It says, you - the three branches of government - can go so far and no farther.

  Michele Bachmann

  Government, Three, Constitution

  "On the Beach, I Bring von Mises". Interview with Stephen Moore, www.wsj.com. June 11, 2011.

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• We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Religious, School, Media

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• Just like my straight friends, I am repeatedly asked when I plan to have kids, and have been told many times, by various branches of my bloodline, that "even lesbians can have babies these days."

  Beth Ditto

  Baby, Kids, These Days

  "I'm 30 and feel under huge pressure to have kids. What should I do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2007.

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• Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes.

  Freeman Dyson

  Mistake, Engineering, Forgiving

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• To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Tree, Paper

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• Our laws governing lobbying and campaign contributions have struck the right balance between the wishes of the people and those of private industry, so why are we so quick to doubt that the same great results can be achieved by putting the government's justice-dealing branch on the same market-based course?

  Thomas Frank

  Government, Law, People

  "Lock ‘em Up — Jailing Kids is a Proud American Tradition" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2009.

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• As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn't matter what your personality is like, you will always be Al Gore to your wife's Bill Clinton. She feels the pain and you are the annoying nerd telling them to turn off the lights.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Pain, Dad, Light

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• I love silent cinema but don't hold it sacred. Like any branch of film there are some very boring films alongside the masterpieces.

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Cinema, Sacred, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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