Jim Nussle famous quotes

I don't think anyone should pick a candidate for any office based solely on gender. That would be, I believe, a mistake.
-- Jim Nussle

#Mistake #Believe #Thinking

The budget is tight, and that is exactly where we want it to be and where we need it to be.
-- Jim Nussle

#Needs #Want

There is no question we are having a difficult time rounding up the votes.
-- Jim Nussle

#Difficult Times #Vote #Difficult

There will be fiscal issues that are appropriate to discuss.
-- Jim Nussle

#Issues

There's a fine line in being too specific so you can't be too flexible, and being too vague in being specific and people not thinking it's meaningful.
-- Jim Nussle

#Meaningful #Thinking #People

The reform of government needs to continue.
-- Jim Nussle

#Government #Reform #Needs

Near-term deficits are temporary and manageable if - and only if - we keep spending in check, the tax burden low and the economy growing.
-- Jim Nussle

#Ifs And #Growing #Economy

Certainly accountability of government is what people are clamoring for; they want to know that when lawmakers make a promise or a proposal, you can actually accomplish it.
-- Jim Nussle

#Government #People #Accountability

This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale which no previous age could have dreaded or dreamed of.

One of the biggest mistakes companies make is brute force lead generation - "give me more leads!" -when they don't understand that not all leads are the same.

This is new for me. I'm learning how to have a realtionship with someone other than Ashton. I made a horrible mistake. It was like a relapse. But you," I reached up and tucked the tear dampened hair that had worked its way loose behind her ear. "You touch a place inside of me that Ashton never did. I feel things with you I never felt for her. I loved her for a very long time. I can't help the fact I still want to be there if she needs me. Next time there is a choice to make it will be you I choose first. I can promise you that.

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake. You can't learn anything from being perfect.

I still secretly believe that afternoons are the time for the test card and you shouldn't watch television when the sun is out.

The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.

Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.

You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.

Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.

Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.