"I always think that it's important to step back and look at the facts, figure out what is big, what is small, and always target the solution and the policy issue correctly. Don't try to solve the wrong problem with unemployment insurance."

-- Douglas Holtz-Eakin

#Thinking Quotes #Important Quotes #Trying Quotes

“People ask me, "What are you going to do to develop jobs in your state?" Well, that's not my job as a US senator to bring industry to the state. That's the lieutenant governor's job, that's your state senators' and assemblymen's job. That's your secretary of state's job, to make a climate in the state that says, 'Y'all come.'”

Source : YouTube Chanel "Harry Reid"/ "Angle: Unemployed are 'Spoiled'; It's not my job to fight for Nevadans' jobs", www.youtube.com. June 18, 2010.
“Gossip is called gossip because it's not always the truth.”

Source : "New Again: Justin Timberlake". Interview with Emma Brown and Rebecca Wallwork, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2013.
“Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.”

Source : "Soon to be a Major Motion Picture". Book by Abbie Hoffman, p. 297, 1980.
“The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down into the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd.”
“In order to learn how to do something well, you have to fail sometimes. In order to fail, there has to be a measurement system. And that's the problem with most philanthropy - there's no measurement system. You give somebody some money to do something and most of the time you can really never measure whether you failed or succeeded in your judgment of that person or his ideas or their implementation.”
“Half the time I don't even think about it, I just throw something on because I'm so late or so busy.”
“Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.”
“This game has taken a lot of guys over the years who would have had to work in factories and gas stations and made them prominent people. I only had a high school education, and believe me, I had to cheat to get that. There isn't a college in the world that would have me and yet in this business you can walk into a room with millionaires, doctors, professional people and get more attention than they get. I don't know any other business where you can do that.”

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