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"Senior development specialists in the Treasury can be counted on one hand. America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments."
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"The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
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Personal Development
"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."
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Personal Development
"Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown."
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Personal Development
"Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows."
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Personal Development
"As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars."
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Personal Development
"Government has no other end, but the preservation of property."
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Personal Development
"Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay."
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Personal Development
"It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government."
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Personal Development
"The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community."
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Personal Development
"We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government."
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"We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy."
Creativity
"Senior development specialists in the Treasury can be counted on one hand. America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments."
Government
"The longer you wait, the less fun. If you wait until the bitter end, the whole economy can be destroyed."
Economy
"In the early 1990s, when a lot of the developing world opened up to international capital flows... they ended up in very good long-term projects, but projects that weren't going to pay off for five or 10 or 20 years."
Finance
"I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis."
Crisis
"The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union. Every one of those 15 new states faced a profound historical, economic, financial, social and political challenge."
Finance
"The basic idea was that if a country would put its economy as an integrated piece of the world system, that it would benefit from that with economic growth. I concur with that basic view."
Creativity
"Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want."
Fear
"In my view, there is an urgent need to communicate with the public and help to explain where there is consensus, and where are there doubts about the issues of sustainable development."
Development
"We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different."
Economy
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