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Control Quotes


"The expansion of the market creates a need for enhanced and more regular supply, and this in turn impels commercial capital to acquire control of production as well."


"Newt has two transitions behind him. First he had to capture control of the House. He had to get the Republican budget through. He had to get the Contract With America through. He has done that."


"But that's fine, because I like to have control of the ambience."


"My brothers can be a little out of control sometimes and so somebody has to be able to keep them focused."


"I had great control, I never missed hitting the other's fellow bat."


"Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to Russia and always had been, and therefore he had to control Poland."


"When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions."


"If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it."


"Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control."


"We're really in control; that's the difference. We were out of control then."


"Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control."


"If you don't get spending under control, eventually you're going to have a big tax increase."


"If the Republicans get control back of the United States Senate, we will no longer have a check and balance on the White House, on the Republican Congress."


"A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders."


"My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on."


"Controlling what you are exposed to remains positive is paramount."


"The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after."


"They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them."


"Physiology has, at last, gained control over the nerves which stimulate the gastric glands and the pancreas."



"As a result, ways out of the crisis are being intensively searched for at all levels - ways, which, however, aim at maintaining the whites' control over the country."


"The New York Times editorial page is like a Ouija board that has only three answers, no matter what the question. The answers are: higher taxes, more restrictions on political speech and stricter gun control."


"Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids."


"I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive."


"You know we're going to control the insurance companies."


"When we came then to the 1967 negotiations we had the problem of one market between two countries fully under the control of the American companies that owned the facilities on both sides of the border."


"My dear colleague James Hansen, I believe, has finally gone off the deep end... The global warming 'time bomb,' 'disastrous climate changes that spiral dynamically out of humanity's control.' These are the words of an apocalyptic prophet, not a rational scientist."


"It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more."


"One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control."


"I was in good control of my body, and I kept my head still."


"It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control."


"Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened."


"The difference today is that, in both parties, the very extreme elements control the nomination process."
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