Governmentrun Quotes & Sayings

To try to be authentic these days, to ask questions of the people in power - it's difficult. This administration has evolved new techniques to handle people like me. Their strategy, in a word, is simple: ignore them. — Ron Suskind

Central planning inevitably leads to economic chaos and failure.
Friedrich Hayek called the delusion that a single person or a group
of government planners could possibly possess the knowledge to plan
an entire economy a "fatal conceit." The overwhelming historical
evidence is that the more freedom a nation has, the more economic
opportunities will exist and the more dynamic that nation's economy
will be. Likewise, the more regulations, controls, taxes, governmentrun
industries, protectionism, and other forms of interventionism that
exists, the poorer the country will become. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

Every Marine is, first and foremost, a rifleman. All other conditions are secondary. — Alfred M. Gray

Just once I want someone to be afraid of losing me," Phoebe said. "But the only thing Luke's afraid of losing is power. — Robyn Schneider

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame. — Pearl S. Buck

Mrs. Francis, may I introduce the Scourge of the Skies, the Terror of Dairy Farmers, the Lord of Lactose, Master of the Cheese Pirates of Snow Monkey Island, Captain Cheesebeard. — Sean Cullen

All times are valuable; the past, present and the future. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Jesus wanted to show mercy to every single person He met. He wanted to sweep them up and embrace them with His love. But because of His eternal plans for goodness, He can't always do that. I don't know why, but i believe He has a greater good than healing our temporary pain. — Susan May Warren

He loved her as though it had never occurred to him that he could feel otherwise. She wanted to be someone who deserved a love like that. — Claire Vaye Watkins

I come in here and you gotta be here; I'm thinkin' about football, and you gotta be here with your tits and your ass and this tight shrunken clothes and these shriveled jeans, so that's all I'm thinking about from the minute I see you is tits and ass. Football doesn't have a chance against it. It's like this invasion of tits and ass overwhelming my own measly individuality so I don't have a prayer to have my own thoughts about my own things except you and tits and ass and sucking and fucking and that's all I can think about. My privacy has been demolished. You think a person wants that kind of a thing to happen their heads - they are trying to give their problems some serious thought, the next thing they know there's nothing in their brains as far as they can see but your tits and ass? You think a person likes that? — David Rabe

Maybe I'll never be able to do what I hope to, but at least I have hope. — Marilyn Monroe

The truth is that even if resentment is triggered by an external object, it is not located anywhere else but in our mind. — Matthieu Ricard

Martha Stewart was convicted of four counts of lying and obstruction of justice and could serve up to 20 years in Congress. — Craig Kilborn

You say you want to talk, But you don't . You stonewall me. — Zadie Smith

[My mother] closed the school the next day [after a visit from Castro's soldiers], because she knew that the purpose of education was the broadening and opening of children's minds. And she couldn't be a party to the systematic closing of minds, borders, freedoms and ideals. — Gloria Estefan

I think that celebrities are just people, like everybody else, and they've got the foodie bug in them too. — Rachael Ray