These settlements [Justice Department with lenders] include requirements that banks lend to minorities at below-market rates and, in effect, dish out cash… — Mary Kissel Copy Share Image
We're busily wrecking the chances for future generations at a rapid rate of knots by not recognizing the damage we're doing to… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
The dirty little secret of publishing is that, all along, each book sold has had an average of 5 readers. That's an… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney.… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) own computer model easily shows that President Obama's proposed regulations would reduce global warming by around 0.02… — Patrick Michaels Copy Share Image
To the contrary, when you look at projections, both Polish and international, we can expect some slowing down of the rate of… — Marek Belka Copy Share Image
When you think of policies that are going to address inequality of wealth, you have to be very thoughtful about what economists… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
The key is if the economic data stays soft, maybe we don't have to worry much about interest rates anymore. Then we… — Douglas Cliggott Copy Share Image
Ahead of me lies the familiar litany: weakening of the heart, hardening of the arteries, increasing brittleness of bones, decreases in kidney… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
The correct rate of speed in innovating changes in long-standing social customs has not yet been determined by even the most expert… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
If we socialized boys like girls, we would have a much lower crime rate in America. — Meda Chesney-Lind Copy Share Image
When I wake, I have a brief, delicious feeling of happiness that is somehow connected with Peeta. Happiness, of course, is a… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
We need to be careful when we talk about cutting health care costs. They are not going to be reduced - what… — Dave Obey Copy Share Image
We recriminalized black life. Incarceration rates since the 1908s have gone through the roof, overwhelmingly black males, women and Hispanics to some… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For reasons that have stunningly little to do with crime or crime rates, we, as a nation, have chosen to lock up… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Every specific tax, as well as the nation's whole tax system, becomes self-defeating above a certain height of the rates. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
And if you ask again whether there is any justice in the world, you'll have to be satisfied with the reply: Not… — Alfred Doblin Copy Share Image
We have believed for many years, much earlier than anyone else was talking about this issue, that it was in the interest… — Rodrigo Rato Copy Share Image
If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no second chances in Mother… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
Industries with rapid change are the enemy of the investor. Tech businesses, particularly biotech, is a problem from that point of view.… — Mohnish Pabrai Copy Share Image
The Christian family is under attack on all fronts. Christian marriages are disintegrating at an alarming rate. Children are not receiving the… — Jim George Copy Share Image