"I've always been fond of the saying that when it comes to oversight and reform, the federal government does two things well: nothing and overreact."

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Source : "Darrell Issa Asks Business: Tell Me What To Change" by Nick Wing, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 4, 2011.

Darrell Issa

#Government Quotes #Two Quotes #Reform Quotes

“What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.”
“Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'”

Source : Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY
“You shouldn't be looking for the secret to making people follow fads, you should be looking for the secret to making them think for themselves. Because that's what science is all about.”

Source : Connie Willis (1996). “Futures Imperfect”, Doubleday Books
“I love everything about you that hurts.”

Source : Patrick Marber (1999). “Closer”, p.70, Grove Press
“I'm not a person who can scream and shout so this is my only outlet. It's all done very logically.”
“No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.”
“In economic life competition is never completely lacking, but hardly ever is it perfect.”
“I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.”

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