"A government decision that slashes spending at the wrong time and sends a weak economy into a tailspin can be just as undisciplined as one that unleashes a wasteful spending spree in an overheated environment."

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Source : Peter Blair Henry (2013). “Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth”, p.10, Basic Books

Peter Blair Henry

#Government Quotes #Decision Quotes #Environment Quotes

“Honey, some boys stopped by to see you. They had wood.”
“I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters.”
“In my firm, we dealt in lies. Advertising is that ... the skilful use of the truth to mislead, to spoil, to debase.”
“The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.”
“To think, it seems to me, is to hold an idea long enough to unlock and shape its power in the varied contexts of shared human knowledge.”

Source : Vera John-Steiner (1997). “Notebooks of the Mind: Explorations of Thinking”, p.9, Oxford University Press
“I'll always consider myself a Southerner. A lot of people put California down, but my dreams were realized there.”
“There's no need to legalize gay marriage. I have plenty of gay friends who are committed couples; some of them call themselves married, some don't, but their friends treat them as married. Anybody who doesn't like it just doesn't hang out with them.”
“Well, you know, what's better? To play a character who stays stuck in the same baggage year after year, or to play a character who gets beyond that and goes to a new level?”

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