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" We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building. "
Sherrod Brown
War
Sales
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" As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money. "
Martin Cruz Smith
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" One of the things I do in banking committees is put pressure on them, and one of the other things I do is through my website, through outside pressure, and I ask people to come and help us join that fight where we can get people outside to keep putting the pressure on the Senate to make sure there are no compromises and weakening of Dodd-Frank. "
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" In the long run, with profits from piracy greater than international finance mobilised to solve the problem, we can expect piracy to increase geographically and in sophistication. "
Peter Middlebrook
Finance
Expect
Problem
" If I finance a bank and I know if the bank will get in trouble, I will be hit and I will lose money, I will put a price on that. "
Jeroen Dijsselbloem
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Trouble
Lose
" The biggest misconception people have about me is that when they see how young I am, they think, 'Oh, this guy must have always wanted to be in politics; his parents must have been politically connected.' I'm a finance major and always intended to go into business. "
Aaron Schock
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I Am
Think
" It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending the revenue of a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and providing it. "
Wilfrid Laurier
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" When I say they're lunatics, that's what I'm talking about. People that think you should allow guns in day care centers, but they're protecting themselves by not allowing guns in their workplace, that would be in that category of lunatics. "
Sherrod Brown
Care
Day
You
" Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views. "
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Finance
Employees
Different
" Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election. "
Olympia Snowe
Politics
Money
Finance
" There is a misperception among job seekers that opportunities for women in tech exist only for those with coding or engineering experience. To be sure, technology firms do need women with these skills, but they also need women with expertise in other areas, like marketing and finance. "
Gillian Tans
Job
Experience
Need
" I am very confident that in 2008, people's votes will count. I don't think they did in 2004. I think in 2008, they will. "
Sherrod Brown
I Am
Will
Think
" The president overstepped his authority when he asked the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans' international phone calls without obtaining a warrant. "
Sherrod Brown
President
He
Authority
" Infosys demonstrated to the world that an Indian company could implement standards of quality, operations, finance that compare with the best. That is a legacy I am happy with. "
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Finance
I Am
Best
" The campaign finance scandal in America is the global warming of American political life - with cash substituting for deadly solar radiation. "
Alec Baldwin
Finance
America
Political
" The confidence is really driven by the woman - whether she can have the confidence that there will be enough earning or income to finance all the domestic spending - but also by the middle-income class, which for many Asian countries has become the growth power for the economy. "
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Confidence
Woman
Power
" In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. "
Alan Greenspan
Value
Protect
Gold
" As much as you need to know your operations, if you don't understand the finance side and how to do the business, you're never going to be successful. So you might be the best operator or visionary, but if you don't understand the finance side... I'm successful because I know the finance side, but I also know operations; it's not an accident. "
Tilman J. Fertitta
Need
Business
Know
" As Ohio's working families continue to recover from the worst economic recession in our country's history, we need a president who's committed to growing our economy by lifting up the middle class. "
Sherrod Brown
Growing
Need
History
" The transaction cost approach maintains that some projects are easy to finance by debt and ought to be financed by debt. These are projects for which physical-asset specificity is low to moderate. "
Oliver E. Williamson
Finance
Easy
Cost
" One day I was in Starbucks going through one of my books on accounting, and this beautiful young woman came up to me and said, 'My accounting book is different from yours.' Her name was Joyce, she had a background in finance and administration and ran a surgery center. Within a short time, we were married. "
David Schweikert
Time
Day
Beautiful
" Foreign companies in the United States have a significantly higher unionization rate than other companies overall. "
Sherrod Brown
United States
United
Higher
" Our strength in finance has led us to set up an international financial centre with medium and long-term objectives, especially to develop Islamic financial and insurance services. "
Hassanal Bolkiah
Insurance
Financial
Finance
" As Michigan's voice on the Senate Finance Committee and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, I will continue working to make sure the next generation of advanced technologies and alternative fuel vehicles are made right here in America. "
Debbie Stabenow
Right
Energy
Finance
" Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles. "
Louis Farrakhan
Rich
Finance
Leader
" I got IRS records to finance what I wanted to do. "
Penelope Spheeris
Got
IRS
Records
" When you've got African parents, you go to uni, do finance, and go into accounting. But I'm not good with systems. I dropped out in my final year of college to become a Christian poet. Then went back to do my A-levels and went to uni in Birmingham to do political science and theology. I lasted 12 weeks. "
Michaela Coel
" I have a saying: There are no brave old people in finance. Because if you're brave, you mostly get destroyed in your 30s and 40s. If you make it to your 50s and 60s and you're still prospering, you have a very good sense of how to avoid problems and when to be conservative or aggressive with your investments. "
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" There's no question: the finance market is moving into the cloud. "
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Cloud
Finance
" Everyone says you've got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense! "
Bill Drayton
You
Change
Finance