Best Importation Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: With an introduction by Jonathan B. Wight, University of Richmond

“The importation of foreigners into a country that has as many inhabitants as the present employments and provisions for subsistence will bear, will be in the end no increase of people, unless the new comers have more industry and frugality than the natives, and then they will provide more subsistence, and increase in the country; but they will gradually eat the natives out. Nor is it necessary to bring in foreigners to fill up any occasional vacancy in a country for such vacancy will soon be filled by natural generation.”

People Ends Country Natural Generations Industry Bears Increase Filled Employment Occasional Provision Foreigners Frugality Subsistence Vacancy Importation

Book:Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin

Source: Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin

“Something that comes to us, some gym shoe that comes to us as a result of child labor from a brutal dictatorship, where people do not have basic freedoms, it wouldn't bug me to tax the living Dickens out of that thing or even to forbid its importation whatsoever. But that's a moral question, not an economic question.”

People Children Results Moral Economic Taxes Labor Shoes Gym Dictatorship Brutal Bugs Dickens Child Labor Importation

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“Part of what you need to understand is that we're forced to look back. You had the importation of third world or developing world conditions into the United States because of a bipartisan elite consensus for neo-liberalism. In other words, you had both political parties, the smarty-pants in both political parties said, hey, let's do these crazy trade deals.”

“Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.”

Art Past Land Creating Art Is Treasure Present Life Importation

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1941, Volume 10

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1941, Volume 10

“Are you going to give a speech?' she asked gaily. He gave a choked laugh. 'Of course not,' he said. 'Not for ages.' 'My cousin Davey gave one on his very first day!' ... 'In the Lords, I remember. It was about how he didn't like strawberry jam.' 'Be nice, Charles! It was a speech about fruit importation, which I admit devolved into something of a tirade.' She couldn't help but laugh. 'Still, you could talk about something more important.' 'Than jam? Impossible. We mustn't set the bar too high, Jane.”

Giving Firsts Said Stills Important Helping Age Remember Courses Lord Laughing Nice Impossible Speech Fruit Bars Being Nice Cousin Jane Jam Strawberries My Cousin Importation

Author:Charles Finch

“Maggie threw her head back and laughed. 'So you're going to try...what? Birds of a Feather?' she quested. 'Of course not,' Kat said. 'Everyone knows the French government banned the importation of peacocks in 1987.”

Knows Trying Said Government Courses Bird Laughed Feathers Banned Maggie Peacock Importation

Author:Ally Carter

“Unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned... they will soon so outnumber us, that all the advantages we have, will not in my Opinion be able to preserve our Language, and even our Government will become precarious.”

Government Able Language Opinion Advantage Immigration Preserves Streams Precarious Importation

Book:Educational views of Benjamin Franklin

Source: Educational views of Benjamin Franklin

“We should strengthen our immigration laws to prevent the importation of foreign wages and working conditions. We should make it illegal for employers to lay off Americans and then fill their jobs by bringing in workers from overseas. Any U.S. employer who wishes to hire from abroad - even for temporary jobs - should have to recruit U.S. workers first. And we should end the unskilled immigration that competes with young Americans just entering the job market.”

Should Firsts Ends Jobs Law Young Wish Conditions Should Have Lays Workers Immigration Illegal Temporary Wages Entering Employers Recruit Immigration Laws Working Conditions Importation

Author:Edward Kennedy

“Listing the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act could harm bear conservation efforts by eliminating revenues from the carefully-regulated sport hunting of polar bears by Americans and the importation of polar bear meat and trophies into the U.S. As hunting by non-Americans would replace hunting by Americans, nothing would be accomplished in terms of reducing the number of polar bears killed, but the revenue currently generated by American sport hunters for conservation and research efforts would be eliminated.”

“Germany is the enemy of Judaism and must be pursued with deadly hatred. The goal of Judaism of today is: a merciless campaign against all German peoples and the complete destruction of the nation. We demand a complete blockade of trade, the importation of raw materials stopped, and retaliation towards every German, woman and child.”

Children Today Nations Goal Enemy Materials Demand Destruction Hatred Trade Jew Campaigns Germany Judaism Pursued Men Women Raw Materials Retaliation Blockades Importation

Author:Eugene M. Kulischer

“We must take action now, by permitting re-importation, to ensure that health care and prescription drugs remain accessible and affordable for everyone.”

Care Action Drug Health Care Affordable Prescriptions Prescription Drugs Importation

Author:Michael K. Simpson

“The importation and sale of marijuana is condemned and punished as a serious crime, but we accept as legitimate the manufacture and sale of an infinitely more addictive and deadly drug: the nicotine in cigarettes that cost the lives of 390,000 American citizens last year.”

Years Lasts Accepting Crime Serious Citizens Cost Drug Marijuana Last Year Cigarette American Citizens Cannabis Nicotine Importation

Author:Jimmy Carter

“The Caribbean is such an apocalyptic place, whether it's the decimation of the indigenous populations by the Europeans, whether it's the importation of slaves and their subsequent being worked to death by the millions in many ways, whether it's the immigrant processes which began for many people, new worlds ending their old ones.”

People World Way Process Millions Slave Population Immigrants New World End Of The World Indigenous Apocalyptic Caribbean Importation

Author:Junot Diaz

“A [desire] to abolish slavery prevails in North America, many of the Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and [Virginia legislators] have petitioned the King for permission to make a law for preventing the importation of more [slaves] into that colony. This request, however, will probably not be granted, as their former laws of that kind have always been repealed.”

Kind America Law Desire Liberty Kings Slavery Slave Former Granted Permission Request Virginia Preventing Abolish Colony Legislators North America Importation

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“The goal of re-importation is to provide American consumers with access to drugs at the world market price - not the inflated price now paid only by Americans.”

World Goal Drug Paid Access Consumers Importation

Author:Michael K. Simpson

“The bottom line here is that I have no doubt that we will control this importation or this case of Ebola so that it does not spread widely throughout this country. There's no doubt in my mind, we will stop it here.”

Mind Doe Country Lines Cases Doubt Bottom Spread No Doubt Bottom Line Ebola Importation

Author:Tom Frieden

“The simple truth is, the short-term solution is for the FDA to allow more importation of safe vaccines from other nations. But the long-term solution is to get more vaccine production within the U.S.”

Long Nations Term Simple Truth Is Safe Solutions Productions Long Term Short Term Vaccines Simple Truths Fda Importation

Author:Larry Craig