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“Michael J. Copps, acting FCC chairman, has denounced the lack of racial and gender diversity in the broadcast industry as 'a shameful state of affairs.' Unsurprisingly, his proposed corrective is to force the transfer of station ownership to greater numbers of minorities, who are statistically more likely to carry liberal talk shows.”

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Author:David Limbaugh

“Securities based on risky mortgages are what toppled financial institutions but it was the government that made the mortgages risky in the first place, by making home-ownership statistics the holy grail, for which everything else was to be sacrificed, including commonsense standards for making home loans.”

Firsts Made Home Government Security Holy Standards Institutions Including Financial Statistics Ownership Loan Mortgage Holy Grail Financial Institutions Home Ownership

Book:Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)

Source: Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)

“No one pushed harder than Congressman Barney Frank to force banks and other financial institutions to reduce their mortgage lending standards, in order to meet government-set goals for more home ownership. Those lower mortgage lending standards are at the heart of the increased riskiness of the mortgage market and of the collapse of Wall Street securities based on those risky mortgages.”

Source: Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)

“Every corporate security may be best viewed, in the first instance, as an ownership interest in, or a claim against, a specific business enterprise.”

Firsts May Interest Security Claims Instance Corporate Enterprise Ownership

Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

“Opportunity could be defined in so many ways. There's one way of defining it, equality of opportunity, which is in fact the equality of capability, but the libertarians got there first and they have - like the Americans getting onto the moon, naming every crater after something like an astronaut - they have got there and named "opportunity" in a way that we cannot get ownership of now.”

Way Firsts Facts Opportunity Moon Libertarian Defined One Way Capability Ownership Defining Astronaut Equality Of Opportunity Craters

Author:Amartya Sen

“Literally draw a detailed map-like an organization chart-of interlocking ownership and affiliates, many of which were also publicly traded. So, identifying one stock led him to a dozen other potential investments. To tirelessly pull threads is the lesson that I learned from Mike Price.”

Lessons Draws Organization Investment Maps Dozen Thread Ownership Mike Identifying

Author:Seth Klarman

“Ownership has been separated from control; and this separation has removed many of the checks which formerly operated to curb the misuse of wealth and power.”

Has Beens Wealth Separation Checks Ownership Misuse Curb

Author:Louis D. Brandeis

“If government ownership of land and natural resources was the best way to protect the environment, then we should have found a Garden of Eden in the Soviet Union after the Iron Curtain came down. Instead, there was one environmental horror story after another.”

“A fact rarely suspected, let alone understood, is that businessmen are by no means the chief beneficiaries of the free market, private ownership, limited government way of life. Many business ventures fail entirely. Who then are the beneficiaries? The masses!”

Way Mean Facts Government Failing Mass Understood Chiefs Ownership Venture Businessman Free Market Limited Government Beneficiaries

Author:Leonard Read

“The market steers the capitalistic economy. It directs each individual's activities into those channels in which he best serves the wants of his fellow-men. The market alone puts the whole social system of private ownership of the means of production and free enterprise in order and provides it with sense and meaning.”

Men Want Mean Whole Order Individual Social Economy Activity Fellows Productions Enterprise Ownership Fellow Man Steers Free Enterprise Social Systems

Book:Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses

Source: Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses

“My view is that we have the Second Amendment rights to bear arms, and in this country my view is that we should not add new legistlation. I do not believe in new laws restricting gun ownership and gun use.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“What kind of city are we living in, if we encourage the development or ownership of large, expensive properties for investment and land banking... while people are sleeping on the streets?”

People Ifs Kind Sleep Cities Streets Land Development Property Investment Expensive Ownership Banking

Author:Jeremy Corbyn

“Oh sure, I have lots of fears. My job is to conquer my fears. The irony of being a performer is that I have huge insecurities. Each of us is responsible for what happens in our lives. When good things happen, we take ownership, but when bad things happen we often don't take responsibility. There are no mistakes or accidents. Consciousness is everything and all things begin with a thought. We are responsible for our own fate. We reap what we sow, we get what we give and we pull in what we put out.”

“The success of a vision is determined by its ownership by both the leader and the people.”

People Leader Vision Determined Ownership

Book:Developing the Leader Within You Workbook

Source: Developing the Leader Within You Workbook

“All the accoutrements that distinguish us from animal existence were put in place when we had a different kind of mind than we have now. We didn't have a mind that favored role specialization, and male dominance, and anxiety over female sexual activity related to feelings of male ownership. That all came later.”

Mind Kind Different Feelings Animal Existence Roles Activity Anxiety Female Males Related Different Kinds Ownership Dominance Specialization Male Dominance

Author:Terence McKenna

“When you take into public ownership a profitable industry the profits soon disappear. The goose that laid the golden eggs goes broody. State geese are not great layers.”

States Industry Profit Disappear Golden Eggs Layers Ownership Profitable Geese Golden Eggs

Book:As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“The messages on our banners in 1979 - freedom, opportunity, family, enterprise, ownership - are now inscribed on the banners in Leipzig, Warsaw, Budapest and even Moscow.”

War Opportunity Cold Messages Enterprise Ownership Cold War Banner Moscow Warsaw Budapest Leipzig

Book:As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“The most difficult days have been the ones I've had to spend correcting a mistake. We're all human, and we make errors in spite of the pains we take not to. It's important to take ownership of the situation and to work to make it right.”

Humans Has Beens Important Pain Difficult Mistake Situation Errors Spite Ownership Correcting Difficult Days

Author:Mark Mason

“Land surveyors start as employees, and move up to partnership in a firm or to ownership of their own enterprise if they wish. Some wind up working for government, private corporations, or public enterprise.”

Ifs Government Moving Wish Land Wind Firm Corporations Enterprise Employee Partnership Ownership Surveyors Land Surveyor

Author:Mark Mason

“I never ever gave ownership a thought. My thoughts before I retired were coaching and broadcasting.”

Coaching Ownership My Thoughts Retired Broadcasting

Author:Steve Kerr

“Keep building and supporting new tools, technologies, and platforms to empower independence, interoperability, and web property ownership.”

Technology Building Tools Independence Property Empowering Platforms Ownership Property Ownership

Author:Marco Arment

“The day you're born, you get the pink slip on YOU. Outright ownership. You must only share that life with those that you and only you choose.”

Born Share Slips You Choose Ownership

Book:Dean And Me: A Love Story

Source: Dean And Me: A Love Story

“I renounce all satanic assignments that are directed toward me and my ministry, and I cancel every curse that Satan and his workers have put on me. ... I reject all other blood sacrifices whereby Satan may claim ownership of me.”

May Sacrifice Blood Claims Workers Curse Satan Rejects Ministry Ownership Assignments Renounce Satanic Blood Sacrifice

Book:Walking in Freedom: 21 Days to Securing Your Identity in Christ

Source: Walking in Freedom: 21 Days to Securing Your Identity in Christ

“Stock ownership in the US is very highly concentrated. [Shareholder actions are] something, but it's like the old Communist Party in the USSR, it would be nice to see more protest inside the Communist Party but it's not democracy. It's not going to happen. [Shareholder actions] are a good step, but they're mostly symbolic.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“Worker ownership within a state capitalist, semi-market system is better than private ownership but it has inherent problems. Markets have well-known inherent inefficiencies. They're very destructive.”

Wells States Problem Known Workers Destructive Capitalist Inherent Ownership Well Known Inefficiency

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I support a total ban on handgun ownership for anyone under eighteen. Uzis should be absolutely banned from entering this country. Automatic weapons of any kind should not be for sale in America. For that matter, toy Uzis should not be available for kids, either. There would be a minimum seven-day waiting period between applying for a gun permit and obtaining a gun.”

“You have to be able to grow and move with the organism that is the music industry. You need to maintain flexibility. Ownership of your own stuff is key and then you're able to dictate on a present-terms basis what would be the most effective way to protect yourself and what you've created. You also don't want to lock yourself into a situation where a major label owns part of your touring and merchandise.”

“Еhere's no doubt at all that the Norman conquest led to the hugely concentrated land ownership patterns that we still see in Britain today. Some of Britain's biggest landowners are still direct descendants of Norman barons. And given the impact that Britain has had on the world over the past few hundred years, you could perhaps say this was a global issue. History is always with us.”

World Years Stills Today Past Given Issues Doubt Land Hundred Direct Impact Patterns No Doubt Britain Ownership Conquest Over The Past Descendants Global Issues Norman Conquest

Author:Paul Kingsnorth

“As I have mentioned before, we cannot make the same sort of money out of permanent ownership of controlled businesses that can be made from buying and reselling such businesses, or from skilled investment in marketable securities. Nevertheless, they offer a pleasant long term form of activity (when conducted in conjunction with high grade, able people) at satisfactory rates of return.”

People Long Made Able Form Term Security Return Offers Activity Investment Rate Permanent Long Term Pleasant Buying Grades Controlled Ownership Nevertheless Conjunctions

Author:Warren Buffett

“A market downturn, doesn't bother us. For us and our long term investors, it is an opportunity to increase our ownership of great companies with great management at good prices. Only for short term investors and market timers is a correction not an opportunity.”

Long Opportunity Term Company Increase Management Bother Long Term Great Men Investors Ownership Short Term Corrections Great Company Timer Downturn Great Management

Author:Warren Buffett

“This is me putting it simply; the politicians are one demographic and they see that Arizona is changing. I feel like the only instinct to retain power is to have education favor you. You have this Mexican American program that helps kids take ownership of their race and their power. It threatens the political powers that are in place.”

Feels Helping Kids Political Race Politician Program Instinct Favors Ownership Mexican Arizona Political Power Demographics Mexican American This Is Me

Author:Matt de la Pena

“I hope that the relationship of the title to the novel [ What Belongs To You] gets more complex with each section of the book: that maybe it begins by resonating with the question of prostitution - to what extent can a body be commodified, what exactly are you renting or purchasing when you pay for sex - and deepens over the course of the book to address larger questions of ownership and belonging.”

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Author:Garth Greenwell

“Progress is not automatic, it depends on what we do every day. So any statement of ownership of our own bodies, however that occurs in our individual lives or our community or our collective lives, is crucial.”

Body Life Is Individual Community Progress Depends Statements Collectives Crucial Ownership Our Community Individual Life

Author:Gloria Steinem

“I saw some women had written that the cloning of Dolly was wonderful since it showed that women could have children without men. They didnt even understand that this was the ultimate ownership of womenof embryos, of eggs, of bodiesby a few men with capital and control techniques, that it wasnt freedom from men but total control by men.”

Men Children Body Saws Wonderful Written Ultimate Technique Eggs Ownership Embryos Cloning

Author:Vandana Shiva

“I've been around responsible gun ownership my whole life.”

Whole Gun Responsible Whole Life Ownership Gun Ownership

Author:Amber Heard

“Maybe because we're women, we have a very high respect level for each other. And when you do have ownership, you're going to make it the best it can be. And I think that's a really - although subtle - very important point in - when you're doing anything creative.”

Thinking Important Levels Creative Subtle Ownership

Author:Maryann Brandon

“Ownership and control is important, because if you don't own what you do, all sorts of stupid stuff happens to it, and people spend good money on garbage.”

People Ifs Important Happens Stuff Stupid Ownership Garbage Good Money Stuff Happens Ownership And Control

Author:Kevin Shields

“I just love the fact that all my pals are basically looked after. You know, we have these amazing deals, these guys split 50 percent. We have ownership 50 percent, all the bonuses 50 percent, and everybody's going to be alright. So going forward into the future, every one of these Millarworld projects, as we call them, 50 percent partners on everything. So it's just a really happy environment to be working in.”

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Author:Mark Millar

“Paul Keating told us before we were elected that you can do deals with [Rupert] Murdoch without saying you were doing a deal. Did we do that kind of thing? Maybe. But from around about the turn of the century, I felt strongly that we had to do something about media ownership and self-regulation. Tony [Blair] disagreed.”

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Author:Alastair Campbell

“We now have political chaos. We've got parties in Ireland saying they want to merge with Northern Ireland. You've got parties in Scotland saying you want to leave the U.K. You've got the Spanish government saying it would like to take ownership of Gibraltar, which is a British overseas territory... So just the politics of this is a mess.”

Want Government Political Party Chaos British Mess Territory Ireland Ownership Scotland Northern Ireland

Author:Tim Harford

“The heart of a grass-roots campaign is the ownership.”

Heart Roots Campaigns Grass Ownership

Author:Ted Cruz

“As people's access to the internet grows we're seeing the sharing economy boom - I think our obsession with ownership is at a tipping point and the sharing economy is part of the antidote for that.”

People Thinking Grows Economy Seeing Internet Access Obsession Ownership Antidote Tipping Tipping Point

Author:Richard Branson

“Contemporary technology could be used to eliminate ownership and management of corporations. It could be used to provide - lets say Apple computers. In principle information technology could be used to provide direct information to the work force on the ground so that they could democratically decide what the company would do, eliminating the role of management. It could be used for that. People aren't developing technology for that purpose.”

“There is something to be said about a pastor and a church that develop a missions statement and the people take ownership of it. They get their identity, purpose, and energy from the unique place their church is to be in that community.”

People Said Purpose Energy Community Church Identity Unique Missions Statements Ownership Pastor Mission Statement

Author:John C. Maxwell

“If churches would take ownership of a vision, the next pastor who is thinking about coming to that church can see what their vision is and then determine if their vision fits with his or her ministry. If it doesn't, then it would be wrong for that pastor to come to that church.”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Next Church Vision Fit Determine Ministry Ownership Pastor

Author:John C. Maxwell

“It's an interesting thing to be in your forties and evaluate success and take ownership of some disasters and some pain and try to forgive a little bit - yourself and others.”

Trying Littles Pain Bits Interesting Little Bit Forgiving Disaster Forty Ownership Interesting Things Evaluate

Author:Uma Thurman

“I support the Second Amendment. I lived in Arkansas for 18 wonderful years. I represented upstate New York. I understand and respect the tradition of gun ownership. It goes back to the founding of our country.”

Years Country Support Wonderful New York Gun Tradition Our Country Amendments Ownership Founding Second Amendment Arkansas Upstate New York Gun Ownership

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Like the healthcare industry, the banks should be taken out of the hands of the 1% and brought under democratic public ownership.”

Should Hands Taken Industry Democratic Healthcare Ownership

Author:Kshama Sawant

“To break the power of the big corporations, we would propose that the biggest 500 corporations that dominate the rigged economy and political system should be taken into public ownership, and run democratically.”

Should Bigs Running Political Break Economy Taken Corporations Ownership Propose Political Systems Rigged Big Corporations

Author:Kshama Sawant

“A permanent and sustainable solution to all the problems facing working people is possible by taking the biggest companies into democratic ownership, and reorganizing the economy on a democratically planned basis. Under such a system we could democratically decide how to allocate resources. We could rapidly transition away from fossil fuels, develop massive jobs programs to rebuild the country's rotting infrastructure, and begin to build a whole new world based on meeting the needs of the majority, not the profits of a few.”

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