Donald T. Regan famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It's common knowledge that a large percentage of Wall Street brokers use astrology.
-- Donald T. Regan

#Wall #Astrology #Use
You've got to give loyalty down, if you want loyalty up.
-- Donald T. Regan

#Loyalty #Giving #Want
At dinner parties I sit below the salt now. There are a lot of interesting people there.
-- Donald T. Regan

#Party #Interesting #People
When all else fails, tell the truth.
-- Donald T. Regan

#Trust #Betrayal #Deception
We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector.
-- Donald T. Regan

#Liberty #Levels #Would Be
Some of us are like a shovel brigade that follow a parade down Main Street cleaning up.
-- Donald T. Regan

#Cleaning #Parades #Main Street
I read all these stories that I don't know anything about politics. But I must know something. I've had some good victories in Congress, and I've survived this town for four years.
-- Donald T. Regan

#Years #Victory #Politics
One of the high spots of the decade for me was offering the bill which culminated in the tax act of 1986, which brought rates down. That was the most difficult problem to solve: how to make the tax system of the United States more fair. We tried to make it simpler, but we failed on that one.
-- Donald T. Regan

#Offering #United States #Bills

Have a determination that is strong enough to move walls.
We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns.
Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.
Talk. We are going to talk first. I want to see you smile and laugh. I want to know what your favorite show was when you were a kid and who made you cry at school and what boy band you hung posters of on your wall. Then I want you naked in my bed again.
Rooms are a fixed size, which can't be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones. They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who's in them.
The margin of error in astrology is plus or minus one hundred percent.
In the middle 1970s an astronomer I admire put together a modest manifesto called "Objections to Astrology" and asked me to endorse it. I struggled with his wording, and in the end found myself unable to sign, not because I thought astrology has any validity whatever, but because I felt (and still feel) that the tone of the statement was authoritarian.
We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.
We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.
I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.

Donald T. Regan famous quotes

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