W Quotes
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“When the President is making it harder to mine coal, to use coal, to take advantage of our gas resources, to make it harder to get our oil resources - all those things combine to make our cost of energy higher than it needs to be, and it drives away enterprises from this country. It sends it to places that have lower-cost energy.”
“When the president of Iran Ahmadinejad says that our debt makes America not a great country, that's a frightening thing.”
“When the President of Iran talks about removing Israel from the face of the Earth and is building nuclear bombs with a range of 3000km, you have to be worried.”
“When the President of the United States attacks a movie star it is undignified and it casts a poor light on the United States of America. When the President of the United States attacks a sitting judge and questions his legitimacy, that actually can lead to a Constitutional crisis.”
“When the president of the United States flicks the switch to light up the Christmas tree on the White House lawn, that house ceases to be an American symbol; it becomes a Christian symbol.”
“When the president of the United States goes out at, you know, 8:00 o'clock in the morning and then his own party votes gets him 2 to 1 in the house, you know that somehow a message isn't getting out. It takes real leadership.”
“When the president of the United States says he's going to do something, he needs to do it. That makes not only our adversaries more emboldened. It makes our allies more nervous.”
“When the president offered me this job, he told me that if there were situations in which I needed to speak to him or I needed his advice or I needed to ask him a question, that I could go into the Oval Office and I could ask him.”
“When the President picks someone who is his ideological soul mate, that's his right, in my reading of "advise and consent." I do think, though, the more you get up the ladder, when someone is no longer accountable to the President, and more importantly, will stay in office after the President, the standard gets tougher and tougher.”
“When the President signs this act, the invisible government by the money power will be legalized.”
Source: Banking and Currency and the Money Trust
“When the President starts talking about something, it makes a difference.”
“When the president talks about tax reform, he talks about the people who will benefit. He talks about American jobs. He talks about the fact that we're going to be taking money that's overseas and bringing it back to the United States so that it will employ American workers. I think that focus again on the American working and middle class is- is-is to me the most thoughtful and, in some ways, the most genius part of Trump's approach to politics.”
“When the president theanthropize himself in matters leadership and governance and takes the constitution and its guardians secondary to his decisions, the chief Justice should assume the role of the deicide of the alloyed beast. If he shows signs of the faint-hearted, the judiciary firewalls become weak to not withstand the threats posed by the executive thus turning into the executive's de facto corporation. This is how autocracy is midwived!”
“When the President was asked about global warming at a public appearance yesterday, he responded by talking about America's addiction to oil. You make the connection.”
“When the president, Donald Trump, is a litigant I think it's wise for him not to comment on the judges. It's not going to help anything - and all it's going to do is emphasize the weakness of your position.”
“When the Presidential virus attacks the system there is a tendency for the patient in his fever to move from the Right or the Left to the Center where the curative votes are.”
Source: Sex, Death, and Money
“When the press writes scare stories about the global labor supply draining jobs from rich to poor places, the story is usually presented as a "race to the bottom" simply in terms of wages. Capitalism supposedly looks for labor wherever labor is cheapest. This story is half wrong. A kind of cultural selection is also at work, so that jobs leave high-wage countries like the United States and Germany, but migrate to low-wage economies with skilled, sometimes overqualified workers.”
Source: The Culture of the New Capitalism
“When the pressure comes, preferences give way while convictions hold firm.”
“When the pressure's on, I always seem to go bigger and land everything better.”
“When the pressures really mount, the neurotic must choose: Shall he have a good cry, or set fire to his neighbor's house?”
“When the pretty birds break your heart and disappear,
be brave and strong through the chilly night weather.
Just look around you and learn from Mother Nature.
Be like the tree that, despite its fallen leaves, endures the chill of winter,
holding on for the warm spring sunshine and the bright summer.”
“When the prey is nigh and the wind sings, She will call forth from beyond, and you shall heed Her call.”
Source: Wolf Rotten
“When the price is low, so is the company.”
“When the Prince comes into your life, you will stop thinking and start reasoning.”
“When the Prince of Piedmont [later Charles Emmanuel IV, King of Sardinia] was seven years old, his preceptor instructing him in mythology told him all the vices were enclosed in Pandora's box. "What! all!" said the Prince. "Yes, all." "No," said the Prince; "curiosity must have been without.”
“When the Prince of Wales [later King George IV] and the Duke of York went to visit their brother Prince William [later William IV]at Plymouth, and all three being very loose in their manners, and coarse in their language, Prince William said to his ship's crew, "now I hope you see that I am not the greatest blackguard of my family.”
“When the principles of permaculture are applied to business on a global scale, business will be a producer of profit for individuals and for the whole earth.”
“When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.”
“When the printing press was invented, it was inspired by the desire to make the Bible accessible to everyone. Today, people of passion who want to share their faith and provide quality entertainment for families are working in one of the most powerful media of our time--the interactive video game.”
“When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.”
“When the prisoner is brought down from Death Row he steps from the elevator directly into a "holding" room that adjoins the witness room. There are two cells in this "holding" room, two, in case it's a double execution. They're ordinary cells, just like this one, and the prisoner spends his last night there before his execution in the morning, reading, listening to the radio, playing cards with the guards.”
“When the private does well, there's revenue for the public sector.”
“When the private sector fails, the solution is more government. When the government fails, the solution is more government.”
“When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who
are virtuous for virtue's sake.”
“When the problem [quantum chromodynamics] is finally solved, it will all be by imagination. Then there will be some big thing about the great way it was done. But it's simple -it will all be by imagination, and persistence.”
“When the problem is worry, the prescription is prayer.”
Source: Count It All Joy: Discover a Happiness That Circumstances Cannot Change
“When the problems in Libya started, the African Union set up a committee to address the situation. We urgently advised the Europeans not to intervene. You have done so anyway. Now we are seeing absolute chaos there.”
“When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.”
Source: Iacocca: An Autobiography
“When the productive lands lose their essence, our productive lives shall least have essence!”
“When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers.”
Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations
“When the proletariat declares the dissolution of the hitherto existing world order, it merely declares the secret of its own existence, since it is in fact the dissolution of this order. When it demands the negation of private property, it is only laying down as a principle for society what society has laid down as a principle for the proletariat, what has already been incorporated in itself without its consent as the negative result of society.”
Source: Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
“when the proletariat, failing to see the justice of this bourgeois economy, begins to murmur, the policeman’s club is called into active service.”
“When the promise is clear, the price gets easy”
“When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem.”
Source: The Promise of American Life
“When the prophet, a complacent fat man, Arrived at the mountain-top He cried: "Woe to my knowledge! I intended to see good white lands And bad black lands— But the scene is grey.”
Source: War Is Kind
“When the prosecution is confronted with concrete evidence of a defendant’s innocence during a trial or investigation, or even after a jury renders an erroneous guilty verdict, that prosecutor must come forward, as an officer of the court, to make sure that justice is done. Defense attorneys have no such obligation, even when they know their clients are guilty.”
Source: Betrayal In Blue
“When the prospect of change knocks, and your survival instinct immediately barks to scare off the intruder, your growth instinct throws a stick for your survival instinct to chase.”
Source: Your Year of Wonders: Embrace Change. Grow Faster. Win Bigger.
“When the province of physical theory was extended to encompass microscopic phenomena through the creation of quantum mechanics, the concept of consciousness came to the fore again. It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to the consciousness.”
Source: The Collected Works of Eugene Paul Wigner: Historical, Philosophical, and Socio-Political Papers. Historical and Biographical Reflections and Syntheses
“When the psychiatrist approves of a person's actions, he judges that person to have acted with "free choice"; when he disapproves,he judges him to have acted without "free choice." It is small wonder that people find "free choice" a confusing idea: "free choice" appears to refer to what the person being judged (often called the "patient") does, whereas it is actually what the person making the judgment (often a psychiatrist or other mental health worker) thinks.”
“When the public doesn't want me any longer, I'll quit.”