"If people want consultative government, the price is increased complexity and delay in arriving at decisions. If they want speed of government, then they must accept a greater degree of authoritarianism. I suspect that the real answer is that most people prefer the latter so long, that is, as government's decisions conform with their own views."

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Source : Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 215), March 27, 1968.

John James Cowperthwaite

#Real Quotes #Government Quotes #Views Quotes

“Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.”
“I've been around in public life for a long time. I think people know what I stand for. They know that I have strong convictions, committed principles and I'm prepared to stand up for them.”

Source : "Malcolm Turnbull, Member for Wentworth". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. May 30, 2010.
“When a man has been intemperate so long that shame no longer paints a blush upon his cheek, his liquor generally does it instead.”
“If I had unlimited funds, wall space and storage, I would collect a lot more things, like 'Planet of the Apes,' 'Star Wars,' science fiction stuff, autographs, and prop guns and weapons. I have to draw the line somewhere.”
“There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely”

Source : Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Even now, it's so funny how much we do have in common and how much her experiences were similar to mine. But I just wanted to be like 'If I'm going to do it, I'm going to write all of my own music, every lyric, and all this stuff.”
“Yogi Bear - there's everything before Yogi Bear and there's everything after Yogi Bear. Like a major car accident, or the birth of Christ.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“Use your CRM to retain customers.”

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