“This idea that you're a successful tough guy if you evade taxes and deceive the state has got to change.” IfsIdeasStatesGuySuccessfulTaxesToughDeceivingTough Guy Author:George Papandreou
“People are an asset, not a liability. The United States is the most immigrant-friendly nation in the world and the richest country in the world. This is not a coincidence. Those voices that would make us less immigrant-friendly would make us less successful, less prosperous and certainly less American.” PeopleWorldCountryStatesNationsVoiceUnitedUnited StatesSuccessfulImmigrantsFriendlyAssetsCoincidenceProsperousLiability Author:Grover Norquist
“I haven't been in Washington over the last - ever. I'm not part of Washington. I got to serve as governor of a state, a purple state and I was the most successful conservative governor probably, during the time that I was there.” StatesLastsSuccessfulHavensConservativeGovernorsPurple Author:Jeb Bush
“Many of the countries outpacing the United States in the deployment of high speed Internet services, including Canada, Japan and South Korea, have successfully combined municipal systems with privately deployed networks to wire their countries, .. As a country, we cannot afford to cut off any successful strategy if we want to remain internationally competitive.” IfsWantCountryStatesUnitedUnited StatesSuccessfulCuttingInternetStrategySouthIncludingSpeedCanadaJapanWireKoreaDeploymentHigh SpeedSouth Korea Author:John McCain
“It's good to go back and look at what other states are doing. For example, Mayo Clinics and the University of Minnesota had a collaborative grant program that we modeled our program after, so we went back to talk to them about the successes of their program. It's been very successful, the state is going back to fund it again, and it's resulted in a great deal of collaboration and specifically patented technology.” LooksStatesDealsTechnologySuccessfulExampleProgramUniversityFundGrantsCollaborationMinnesotaClinic Author:Brian Thompson
“You know, Barack Obama the last ten days was traveling overseas campaigning in Europe and everywhere. It was so successful, campaigning abroad, that he is actually thinking about campaigning here in the United States.” ThinkingKnowsStatesLastsUnitedUnited StatesSuccessfulTenEuropeBarackCampaigning Author:David Letterman
“We tried some experiments in mind reading which were not very successful. Think mind reading contrary to common sense, wise provision of the Bon Dieu that we cannot read each others minds, twould stop civilization and everybody would take to the woods. In fifty or hundred thousand centuries when mankind have become perfect by evolution then perhaps this sense could be developed with safety to the state.” ThinkingMindStatesReadingPerfectCommonSuccessfulWiseMankindCenturyEvolutionCivilizationThousandHundredSafetyWoodsContraryExperimentsCommon SenseFiftyProvisionMind Reading Author:Thomas A. Edison
“Democracy in Iraq will be an example that the Arab population will look to with great interest. And some Arab governments are concerned about democracy in Iraq, not because Iraq will be an aggressive state against them, but rather by the example that will be set by a successful federal democratic state in Iraq.” LooksStatesGovernmentInterestDemocracySuccessfulExampleConcernedDemocraticIraqPopulationAggressive Author:Ahmed Chalabi
“Stop judging life! Look at every event as blessed. It is offering you the fastest track to get onto your highest, happiest and most successful state. Your soul is working it all out perfectly. When you accept this you will make life amendments easily and lovingly. Then the pain stops and the joyous creation begins.” LooksSoulStatesPainAcceptingSuccessfulEventsCreationJudgingHighestBlessedTrackYour SoulWorking ItOfferingAmendmentsJoyous Author:Melanie
“After 9/11, it became clear that we [the United States] had to do several things to have a successful strategy to win the global war on terror, specifically that we had to go after the terrorists wherever we might find them, that we also had to go after state sponsors of terror, those who might provide sanctuary or safe harbor for terror.” WarStatesMightWinningUnitedUnited StatesSuccessfulClearSafeStrategyTerrorTerroristHarborsSanctuaryWar On TerrorSponsorsSafe Harbor Author:Dick Cheney
“Do not tell me that you have got to be rich! We have a false standard of greatness in the United States. We think here that a man must be great, that he must be notorious; that he must be extremely wealthy, or that his name must be upon the putrid lips of rumor. It is all a mistake. It is not necessary to be rich or to be great, or to be powerful, to be happy. The happy man is the successful man. Happiness is the legal tender of the soul.Joy is wealth.” ThinkingMenSoulStatesJoyNamesWealthUnitedPowerfulMistakeUnited StatesSuccessfulRichGreatnessStandardsLipsContentmentWealthyRumorNotoriousHappy ManSuccessful Man Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll