Economy Quotes - Page 39

• That is - the reason for that is that home prices are only going to go up. Now, they've never gone down nationwide in our - since we've been keeping track of this.

  Franklin Raines

  Home, Track, Gone

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• We are shrinking the size of the federal government as a percent of our economy from over 21 percent of the economy to 19 percent of the economy. At the same time, we're growing the private economy.

  Franklin Raines

  Government, Size, Shrinking

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• Well, there are about 10 million children that aren't covered by health insurance. About 3 million qualify for Medicaid but don't get it, so we're going to reach out and bring more of those kids into the Medicaid program.

  Franklin Raines

  Children, Kids, Program

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• We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Pride, Littles, Causes

  "New Studies in Philosophy, Politics, Economics and the History of Ideas". Book by Friedrich Hayek. Part I: "Philosophy ". Chapter 2: "The Pretence of Knowledge", p. 23, 1978.

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• If the terrorists have the sympathy of people, it's much harder to find them. So we need people on our side, and that leads us to be responsible leaders of the world, show some concern with the problems.

  George Soros

  People, Leader, Needs

  "Now" with David Brancaccio, PBS, www.pbs.org. September 12, 2003.

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• But why shouldn't I speak out? Don't you speak out in this country?

  George Steinbrenner

  Country, Speaks Out, Speak

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• I will never have a heart attack. I give them.

  George Steinbrenner

  Heart, Giving, Heart Attack

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• I'm really 95 percent Mr. Rogers, and only 5 percent Oscar the Grouch.'

  George Steinbrenner

  Oscars, Roger, Grouches

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• In the end, I'll put my good acts up against those of anybody in this country. Anybody.

  George Steinbrenner

  Country, Ends

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• Ruth was probably the greatest athlete to perform in any sport. Never has there been anybody like him.

  George Steinbrenner

  Sports, Athlete, Ruth

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• I could only speak in the smallest, most intimate circles about the real reasons which made me undertake the changeover of the plants for certain lines of production for I had to expect that many people would not understand me.

  Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach

  Real, Circles, People

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• Our thoughts fly therefore by themselves in this festive hour of our plant community, to the man whom we thank for the ressurection of our Nation: Adolf Hitler, the patron of German labour and German art.

  Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach

  Art, Men, Community

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• Through years of secret work, scientific and basic ground work was laid, in order to be ready again to work the German Armed Forces at the appointed hour, without loss of time or experience.

  Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach

  Loss, Order, Years

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• Unanimously we will confess and pledge ourselves to stand behind the Fuehrer and his movement today and forever and thereby to be of service to the idea of eternal Germany.

  Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach

  Ideas, Forever, Germany

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• We are all proud of having thus contributed to the heretofore magnificent successes of our army.

  Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach

  Army, Proud, Magnificent

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• First, this isn't about telecommuting, because we still have offices that people will come to regularly when they need to brainstorm together, meet with clients, or do research in the library.

  Jay Chiat

  People, Office, Library

  "Virtual Chiat". Interview with David Dix, www.wired.com. July 1, 1994.

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• If you really think about it, when watching television, you have product placement all the time.

  Jay Chiat

  Thinking, Television, Placement

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• One is that that's the way we started and we thought there would be more value and less confusion if the business model was just based on delivering news that's of value to Web sites.

  Jay Chiat

  Confusion, News, Way

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• Research we've done seems to indicate that people who are on the Net like the idea that they don't have to leave what they are reading to go buy something.

  Jay Chiat

  Reading, Ideas, People

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• Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM.

  Jay Chiat

  Writing, Technology, Phones

  "Virtual Chiat". Interview with David Dix, www.wired.com. July 1, 1994.

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• We set up a beta site, a test site, with movie, music and book reviews. If you're reading them and you want to buy a book or a ticket for a movie that's reviewed on the site, you can do that without leaving our site.

  Jay Chiat

  Book, Reading, Leaving

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• Back in the mid-1980s, congressional hearings were held after we brought this litigation, and held up the first experiment. At that time, I went in front of Congress, along with the major agencies involved with this.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Agency, Hearing, Firsts

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• I know quite a few farmers all over the United States who have tried this and have said the opposite, that they have to use more herbicides, not less. The same holds true with BT.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Opposites, United States, Use

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• So my attorneys brought litigation in the U.S. federal courts. The judge ruled in our favor.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Judging, Favors, Court

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• What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Humanity, Renaissance, May

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