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Yet the true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme povery lowers the character of…

— Aristotle

The [liberals] consider profits as objectionable. The very existence of profits is in their eyes a proof that wage rates could be…

— Ludwig von Mises

He must understand that if he is the world's finest plum and someone he loves does not like plums, he has the…

— Leo Buscaglia

With all this consumer debt, business debt, government debt, smaller movements in interest rates have a magnified effect. a small movement can…

— Bill Gross

I really rate Paul Scholes, because he hasn't got the high profile of many of the Manchester United players, he doesn't get…

— Tony Adams

I think it'd be wonderful if we could train young girls to be active in lots of ways and that they then…

— Raquel Welch

I don't really rate press conferences. It's not as though I leave the room fist-pumping my way down the corridor after a…

— Andy Roddick

It isn't given to man to be able to run a financial institution where different interest-rate scenarios will prevail on all of…

— Warren Buffett

Mr. Vice President, the most fiscally conservative thing this government has ever done, is to invest massively in the green part of…

— Van Jones

Believe me, I understand that most higher rate taxpayers are not the super-rich.

— George Osborne

The Afghan government is much better informed, much more intrusive and ambitious than I had guessed. There are amazing craftsmen in Kabul…

— Rory Stewart

We've seen tremendous progress in many ways under President [Barack] Obama. I mean, if we think about where the economy was when…

— Julian Castro

So just to be clear, I'm not going to sign any package that somehow prevents the top rate from going up for…

— Barack Obama

Excellent outcomes with much lower intervention rates are achieved at home births. This may be because the overuse of interventions in hospital…

— Henci Goer

Historically the opposition to abortion and birth control ... stemmed from the urgency of the need to decrease the mortality and morbidity…

— Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill

The violence in New Orleans is erupting and it's continuing to grow at an alarming rate.

— Tyrann Mathieu

American workers are first rate.

— Christopher Dodd

Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

In Canada the cancer death rate is 16% higher than in the U.S. because of rationing of medical care. It takes an…

— Dick Morris

Before we even consider expanding Medicare, or another program based on its rates, we must reform our Medicare payment system so that…

— Amy Klobuchar

If you look at the Forbes 400, they are paying a lower rate, accounting payroll taxes, than their secretary or - whomever…

— Warren Buffett

A fine marksman is with a second rate rifle is far more effective than the reverse.

— Jeff Cooper

I am never out there just jogging for the heck of it. I never do that. I start to run with a…

— Drew Carey

Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time.…

— Richard Powers

Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known…

— H. L. Mencken