“One more time? We've done this. We've done this at least four times where there's a new government program to help homeowners who have trouble with their mortgages. None of these programs have worked. I don't know why anyone would think that this next idea is going to work. All it does is delay the clearing of the market. As soon as the market clears and we understand where the prices really are - that will be the most important thing we can do in order to improve home values around the country.” ThinkingKnowsDoeImportantIdeasCountryDoneHelpingHomeGovernmentValuesOrderNextCan DoFourTroubleProgramImportant ThingsConservativeMore TimeDelayGoing To WorkMortgageClearingGovernment ProgramsNew GovernmentConservative ValuesHomeowners Author:John Boehner
“If you own a chemical plant and leak a little benzene, you're in big trouble because everyone knows how carcinogenic it is. But coming out of a tailpipe? The government never does anything about that.” IfsKnowsLittlesDoeBigsGovernmentKnow HowTroublePlantChemicalsComing OutLeaksBenzene Author:R. James Woolsey, Jr.
“There is a long standing tradition of using code to evade censorship in China, so that goes on. The trouble is the Chinese government has created the world's most sophisticated censorship machine.” WorldLongGovernmentTroubleGoes OnStandingTraditionMachinesChinaChineseCodeCensorshipSophisticatedChinese Government Author:John Palfrey
“The weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community. In a republic like ours the governing class is composed of the strong men who take the trouble to do the work of government; and if you are too timid or too fastidious or too careless to do your part in this work, then you forfeit your right to be considered one of the governing and you become one of the governed insteadone of the driven cattle of the political arena.” IfsMenGovernmentPoliticalStrongCommunityClassTroubleDrivenCowardRepublicArenaGoverningCarelessCattleStrong ManForfeitFastidious Book:Works Source: Works
“One trouble is that when Government gets into a business it tends to make it uneconomic for anyone else.” GovernmentTrouble Author:John James Cowperthwaite
“Good journalism is being criminalized or otherwise rendered perilous to its best practitioners. Attack a government agency like the CIA, or a Fortune 500 member ..., or the conduct of the military in Southeast Asia and you find yourself in deep trouble, naked and often alone.” GovernmentTroubleMilitaryMembersFortuneNakedJournalismAgencyFinding YourselfAsiaCiaGovernment AgenciesSoutheast AsiaGood Journalism Author:Daniel Schorr
“There's a consensus out that it's OK to kill when your government decides who to kill. If you kill inside the country you get in trouble. If you kill outside the country, right time, right season, latest enemy, you get a medal.” IfsWarCountryGovernmentEnemyTroubleSeasonsRight TimeMedalConsensus Author:Joan Baez