Jack Markell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

As governor, Im spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.
-- Jack Markell

#Jobs #School #Government
So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.
-- Jack Markell

#Opportunity #Two #People
But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.
-- Jack Markell

#Government #Ideas #Doe
Delaware is the only state east of the Rockies that is allowed under federal law to offer sports betting.
-- Jack Markell

#Sports #Law #East
The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand.
-- Jack Markell

#Hands #Numbers #Leader
As one of the first employees at a small cellular phone start-up called Nextel, I gained firsthand experience in how a business grows from an idea to a company that, at its peak, employed many thousands.
-- Jack Markell

#Phones #Ideas #Firsts
My own experience, though, as a business executive and as a governor, tells me that businesses are interested in a lot more than a low tax rate when they decide where to locate.
-- Jack Markell

#Lows #Taxes #Rate

My mind leaps to my theory about presidents - that there are two kinds, ones who have a lot of sex and the others who start wars. In short - and don't quote me, because this is an incomplete expression of a more complex premise - I believe blow jobs prevent war.
I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God.
Rent' was my first professional job, ever.
I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.
I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a 13th century landscape. The work of many hands over many years, it universally inspired admiration, wonder and fear.
It's embarrassing ... you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.
The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.
The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Jack Markell famous quotes

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