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John Bruton

"The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are reasonably free."

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"The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are reasonably free."

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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."

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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

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"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

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"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."

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"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

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"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."

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"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"

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"I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one."

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"I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after."

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"A lot of people got lost in Hollywood while trying to become a star. They lost themselves."

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"States can be deterred by the fear of retaliation; non-state organisations cannot by deterred at all."
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"European investment in Texas alone exceeds all U.S. investment in China and Japan put together."
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"Indeed, American companies make three times as much profits from their investment in one E.U. country, Ireland, than they do from all their investments in China."
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"But our system of regulation must keep up with this. If it fails to keep up, it will hold back economic expansion. We need financial market regulation that works at national and European level."
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"The E.U. imports more agricultural goods from developing countries around the world than does the U.S., Canada and Japan, combined."
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"The E.U. is more than just a trade organization or a common market; it is a guarantee of democracy, freedom, justice, and human rights. Nations cannot stay in the E.U. if they do not respect these guarantees."
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"When the E.U. and the U.S. agree, other countries follow."
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"It is not viable for one country to demand a right to increase and upgrade its nuclear weapons capabilities while asking others to eliminate theirs."
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"If the EU and the US can cooperate successfully on regulating financial markets, everyone else will follow."
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"U.S. companies earn more from their investments in the EU than in the rest of the world combined."
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