"We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up."

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Source : Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. January 5, 2001.

Bruce Babbitt

#Unemployment Quotes #Gone Quotes #Acres Quotes

“Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.”
“Long ago in China, knot-makers tied string into buttons and frogs, and rope into bell pulls. There was one knot so complicated that it blinded the knot-maker. Finally an emperor outlawed this cruel knot, and the nobles could not order it anymore. If I had lived in China, I would have been an outlaw knot-maker.”

Source : FaceBook post by Maxine Hong Kingston from Dec 10, 2012
“Not all the labour of the earth Is done by hardened hands.”
“I'm not out for quotas. I'm out to attract the best young men and women of our nation.”
“It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.”

Source : Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1974). “August 1914”, Harmondsworth : Penguin
“All these people who think they deserve free health care, or a job, or a plasma screen TV, simply because they radiate heat at 98.6 degrees, or because they were born in a certain place, or because they have a certain skin color - it's all bunk. There's no such thing as a 'just' wage. There's only what you earn.”

Source : "Doug Casey on Judging Justices". Interview with Louis James, www.caseyresearch.com. July 22, 2009.
“Just build a classic horseshoe of wood and plaster, and fill it with statuary and curtains, then sit back and savor the beautifully blended results.”
“I've got to tell you, I've got 99 problems, and palsy is just one.”

Source : "I got 99 problems... palsy is just one". TEDWomen Talk, www.ted.com. December 2013.

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