Contractor Quotes

• The spy boom has been a beautiful windfall for architects, construction companies, IT specialists, and above all defense contractors, enriching thousands of private companies and dozens of local economies hugging the Capital Beltway.

  Rachel Maddow

  Beautiful, Hug, Spy

  Rachel Maddow (2012). “Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power”, p.6, Broadway Books

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• If you cannot be on the project each day to check on things, then you should not try and be your own contractor.

  Robert Metcalfe

  Trying, Each Day, Checks

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• I will not do work that isn't done well or right. Stuff happens - things break, contractors don't come through - but I don't want to be responsible for not doing something correctly.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Stuff Happens, Done, Want

  "Genevieve Gorder trades places in 'Town Haul'". Interview with Jay Bobbin, poststar.com. January 21, 2005.

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• The value of all things contracted for, is measured by the appetite of the contractors, and therefore the just value is that which they be contented to give.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Giving, Appetite, All Things

  Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.83, Hackett Publishing

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• I still have a dream of one day - I would love to hire a semi-retired contractor and just build a house - him and I building a house for me. I would truly love to do that

  Christopher Meloni

  Dream, House, One Day

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• I'm a private contractor now. I choose my clients, not the other way around.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Way, Clients

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2014). “Hush, Hush Parts 1 & 2: includes Hush, Hush and Crescendo”, p.464, Simon and Schuster

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• I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years

  Gary Miller

  Years, Early 20s, Has Beens

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• Contractors always pursue large profit, the customer - a high-quality end product in due time and at a lower cost. This struggle never ends, but this is natural.

  Vladimir Putin

  Struggle, Quality, Cost

  Source: www.rt.com

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• From famous artists to building contractors, we all want to leave our signature. Our lasting effect. Your life after death. We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Artist, Signatures, Want

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• When it comes to paying contractors, the sky is the limit; when it comes to financing the basic functions of the state, the coffers are empty.

  Naomi Klein

  Sky, Limits, Empty

  Naomi Klein (2010). “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism”, p.517, Macmillan

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• You have tens, hundreds of thousands of people in government, and just as many among contractors, who feel totally comfortable writing at the top of the document "internal use only," "official use only," and a million other synonyms, all of which amount to "none of your business" to the public.

  Ted Gup

  Writing, Government, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• My parents have not insisted that we go to college, but she wanted us to learn. Teacher, librarian, secretary, nurse. All my siblings were employed. But I wanted to be the boss, an independent contractor.

  Bette Midler

  Teacher, Sibling, Independent

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• At that time, about July 5, we had no Iraqi corrections officers working for us. It was a responsibility of the CPA, with contractors, to set up a training program.

  Janis Karpinski

  Responsibility, July, Training

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• Wars are popular. Contractors make profits; the aristocracy glean honour.

  Ramsay MacDonald

  War, Aristocracy, Profit

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• Had I been more responsible I might have made something of myself as a junk bond trader, long-haul trucker or perhaps a plumbing contractor.

  Brock Yates

  Ties, Long, Junk

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• Any housing solution that involves paying for industrially produced building materials and commercial building contractors is doomed to certain failure. If houses are to be built at all, in sufficient quantity, they must be built without money. We must go right outside the framework of the money system, bypass the factories, and ignore the contractors.

  Hassan Fathy

  Money, Failure, House

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• The process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Rewards, Process, Penalties

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• At the White House, everybody works for the same person. They're all part of the same company. But on Capitol Hill, they're all independent contractors. They all work for themselves. That's a formula for getting news.

  Bob Schieffer

  Independent, White, House

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• The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their regular payments from the city treasury.

  Ray Stannard Baker

  Cities, City Streets, Failing

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• An unscrupulous contractor regards no basement as too dark, no stable loft too foul, no rear shanty too provisional, no tenement room too small for his workroom as these conditions imply
  low rental.

  Jane Addams

  Dark, Hull House, Rooms

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially pales in comparison.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Soldier, Purpose, Kind

  Kathryn Bigelow, Peter Keough (2013). “Kathryn Bigelow: Interviews”, p.157, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• In ordinary life, the action of a third party does not free the contractor from an obligation; but the advantage of making a contract with heaven is that intentions are valid currency.

  Machado de Assis

  Party, Heaven, Ordinary

  Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Machado de Assis, John A. Gledson (1998). “Dom Casmurro”, p.146, Oxford University Press

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• When Donald Trump's projects go under, the first people that don't get paid are the contractors that he's - some of whom have gone bankrupt. They're calling me. I'm getting nonstop e-mails and calls now from people that have been scammed by Donald Trump. And their stories are heartbreaking.

  Marco Rubio

  People, Heartbreaking, Gone

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• This Iraq war has been the most "privatized" war in America's history. It has seen the most extensive use of contractors. The contractors have increased the costs; but they have been necessary - the military simply could not have done it on their own. we would have had to increase the size of the military. But the George W. Bush Administration wanted America to believe that it could have a war, essentially for free, without raising taxes, without increasing the size of the armed forces.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Military, War, Believe

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The attempt to minimize cost and maximize profits often interfered with our true mission in Iraq. We should have been working to get jobs for Iraqis, but the contractors found it cheaper to import Nepalese and others. This increased resentment, contributed to unemployment, and to our losing the hearts and minds of the Iraqis.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Heart, Mind, Losing

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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