"We are shrinking the size of the federal government as a percent of our economy from over 21 percent of the economy to 19 percent of the economy. At the same time, we're growing the private economy."

-- Franklin Raines

#Government Quotes #Shrinking Quotes #Growing Quotes

“They change their skies, but not their souls who run across the sea.”
“We are a great nation because we are a good people.”

Source : Elizabeth Dole's Speech at the Republican National Convention in New York City, New York, www.washingtonpost.com. August 31, 2004.
“Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?”
“Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respects”
“I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay”
“Humor can make a serious difference. In the workplace, at home, in all areas of life - looking for a reason to laugh is necessary. A sense of humor helps us to get through the dull times, cope with the difficult times, enjoy the good times and manage the scary times.”
“Lieutenant Welsh remembered walking around among the sleeping men, and thinking to himself that 'they had looked at and smelled death all around them all day but never even dreamed of applying the term to themselves. They hadn't come here to fear. They hadn't come to die. They had come to win.”
“Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.”

Source : Elizabeth Moon (2004). “The Speed of Dark: A Novel”, p.66, Ballantine Books

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