“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
“Any change of government which has to be introduced should be one which men, starting from their existing constitutions, will be both willing and able to adopt, since there is quite as much trouble in the reformation of an old constitution as in the establishment of a new one, just as to unlearn is as hard as to learn.” MenShouldHardGovernmentAbleTroubleWillingConstitutionStartingEstablishmentReformationUnlearn Book:Politics Source: Politics
“If a government commission had worked on the horse, you would have the first horse that could operate its knee joint in both directions. The trouble is it couldn't have stood up.” IfsFirstsGovernmentTroubleHorseKneesJointsStood Up Author:Peter Drucker
“There has been abroad many times some criticism of our Government, of our people, and our ways, but that has demonstrated, I think, that when they are in real trouble and real difficulty over there, they turn to us as a nation that will be fair with them--one in whose judgment and in whose character they can rely; and that not withstanding differences that have seemed to exist, they are willing to abide by the faith that they have in us, and I think that is a very substantial accomplishment.” PeopleThinkingWayHas BeensRealCharacterGovernmentTurnsNationsDifferencesTroubleWillingPrideJudgmentFairsCriticismDifficultyAccomplishmentRelyPatriotismWithstanding Author:Calvin Coolidge
“If the World War [I] demonstrated anything it was that government ownership is fraught with the gravest dangers and usually leads to disaster. Take Britain. The two problems which have caused the greatest trouble since the war ended have been transportation and coal. The government seized both industries when the war broke out. It got them into such a hopeless mess that it does not know how to turn [In] coal; the government now realizes, it took hold of the tail of a wild animal and is afraid to let go.” IfsKnowsWorldDoeHas BeensTwoWarProblemGovernmentTurnsRealizingAnimalKnow HowTroubleDangerIndustryLetting GoDisasterMessBrokeWar Of The WorldsBritainHopelessWorld War IOwnershipTailsCoalTransportationWild Animal Author:B. C. Forbes
“Obama needs Facebook to help him get reelected. Facebook needs Obama to keep them out of trouble with Congress and countless government agencies.” NeedsHelpingGovernmentTroubleCongressSocial MediaAgencyGovernment Agencies Author:Daniel Lyons
“It's estimated that about 30 percent of the increase in grain prices could be attributed to the decision to embrace biofuels, particularly corn-based ethanol. It has done nothing for climate change and the business is in real trouble now with the collapse of oil prices. It's completely dependent on a dollar subsidy and tariff from the government.” RealDoneGovernmentDecisionTroublePercentIncreaseEmbraceDollarsClimateClimate ChangeOilDependentCollapseGrainCornSubsidiesTariffsEthanolOil PriceBiofuels Author:Michael Pollan
“The idea of a government is to create an ordered, willing work force where there's no trouble. I think idlers are generally seen as potentially dangerous because they're asking questions.” ThinkingIdeasGovernmentForceTroubleDangerousWillingAskingAsking QuestionsIdlers Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“I can't understand what's holding up our missile program. It's the first time the government ever had trouble making the taxpayers' money go up in smoke.” FirstsI CanGovernmentTroubleFirst TimeProgramSmokeTaxpayersMissilesTrouble Making Author:Bob Hope
“The work of democratic government is routinely concerned with matters defined as troubles. In "The Presidency and the Press" I make the point, familiar to anyone who has flown about the world much, that the best quick test of the political nature of a regime is to read the local papers on arrival. If they are filled with bad news, you have landed in a libertarian society of some sort. If, on the other hand, the press is filled with good news, it is a fair bet that the jails will be filled with good men.” IfsMenWorldMatterHandsGovernmentPoliticalTroublePaperNewsConcernedFairsTestsFilledPressesDemocraticLibertarianLocalsFamiliarDefinedGood ManJailRegimesPresidencyGood NewsPapersBad NewsArrivalsDemocratic Government Author:Daniel Patrick Moynihan
“The country is in some trouble, because the media, which is supposed to provide a check and balance on government, has decided to stop doing that as a collective entity.” CountryGovernmentTroubleMediaBalanceDecidedChecksCollectivesEntity Author:Craig Newmark
“The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything.” DoeStatesGovernmentSocialToo MuchTroubleDemocratic Book:America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It Source: America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It
“One thing I learned, with permission of the school committee of Indianapolis, was that when a tyrant or a government gets in trouble it wonders what to do. Declare war! Then nothing else matters. It's like chess; when in doubt, castle.” WarMatterGovernmentSchoolWonderDoubtTroubleOne ThingChessTyrantsPermissionCommitteesCastlesWhen In DoubtIndianapolis Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble.” IfsBookGovernmentPastTroubleTaxes Author:Terry Pratchett
“Reading their letters and the First Amendment of the US Constitution, I infer that this nation's founders noted that religions have been at the center of great deal of trouble, so they precluded the US government from getting involved in religion, i.e. "... shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." Over the centuries, various religions have laid claim to various morals; consider the difficulties outsiders are having today in the Middle East, for example.” FirstsHas BeensGovernmentTodayLawReadingNationsDealsMoralTroubleMiddleCenturyExampleInvolvedExerciseLettersConstitutionClaimsDifficultyVariousEastEstablishmentMiddle EastAmendmentsOutsidersFoundersFirst AmendmentUs Constitution Author:Bill Nye