1966a Cabinet Quotes & Sayings

Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution. — Henry Paulson

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. — Samuel Smiles

To kill was to be doomed. To kill was to die, yourself. — Kelly Braffet

When I grew up in the early '90s, the new World Wide Web felt like a gimmick, and I had no idea of the changes in store. In the summers, I'd backpack through Europe, follow the Grateful Dead. I had a car and a tent and traveled around the Great Lakes and out West. Jack Kerouac was my guiding light, his 'On the Road' a sacred text. — Tony D'Souza

The heartbeat is the purest form of honesty. — Penelope Ward

Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it but, if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is all in the script. — Mads Mikkelsen

I'd seen Rex pull this ruse before. The trick is to employ diplomatic-sounding generalities to cover his near-total ignorance. You'd think that any reasonably intelligent person would see right through it, but Rex's uncanny confidence can be downright unnerving. To be honest, I'm not entirely certain he realizes it's a ruse. He may just be deluded enough to think that he really does understand what's going on, and somehow he manages to extend that delusion to include those in the immediate vicinity. As the originator of the delusion, he then becomes a sort of expert guide to those lost in its fog. — Robert Kroese

How much freedom I have depends on the number and nature of my options. And that, in turn, depends both on the rules of the game and on the assetts of the players: it is a very important and widely neglected truth that it does not depend on the rules of the game alone. — Gerald Cohen

The United States does not have a very good record in the Middle East. I think they have the best of intentions but I think the problem is that it's very difficult from Washington, or from Iowa or Nebraska to understand what is happening in this crazy part of the world. In some cases US diplomacy has been somewhat naive. — Moshe Arens

I'll keep doing the right things and the results will come — Tim Henman

If you want to know how I felt, imagine your own feelings on waking one morning to find that income tax or unrequited love had somehow vanished from the world. — C.S. Lewis

When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there's always a chance that the dancing bear will win. — Nancy Isenberg

A person who does not get attached to anything, and never forgets to do his duty, will achieve everything. — Debasish Mridha

I had always been a free spirit and always gotten what I wanted. — Rick James

The moose is singularly grotesque and awkward to look at. Why should it stand so high at the shoulders? Why have so long a head? Why have no tail to speak of? — Henry David Thoreau