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I think we need a very, very serious effort, primarily through tax policy to provide incentives and encouragement for people to save and invest and… — Dick Cheney
If you're going to go increase taxes on small businesses, you're going to slow down the extent to which we're able to reduce unemployment. So… — Dick Cheney
A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but… — Lord Chesterfield
Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane… — Julia Child
In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. — Julia Child
Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known. — Noam Chomsky
A joke is a very serious thing. — Winston Churchill
I am shocked at how much time I spend in the White House. I mean, you know, for people on the outside, the idea of… — Hillary Clinton
A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work. — Karl Abraham
Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery. — Maya Angelou
I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good… — Maya Angelou
If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever… — Maya Angelou
I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine… — Maya Angelou
I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field,… — Hank Aaron
Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world. — John Burroughs
We don't really have the ability to enforce the law with respect to illegal work in this country in a way that's truly effective...We haven't… — Michael Chertoff
It is wrong, and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws that we have seen...in… — William J. Clinton
The idea that the United States can't guard its own border is silly. It's a sign that were not serious about this...people who legally shouldn't… — Newt Gingrich
Actually, the inability of any society to resist immigration, the inability to find other solutions to the problem of employment at the lower, more physical,… — George F. Kennan
The ongoing migration of persons to the United States in violation of our laws is a serious national problem detrimental to the interests of the… — Ronald Reagan
This is a serious problem of major concern, and we have got to approach it in a way that is consistent with this nation's tradition… — Janet Reno
Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
When you treat reprehensible and ludicrous arguments with respect you have elevated the reprehensible and made the ludicrous a bit more reasonable. Having a serious… — Jonah Goldberg
His [Ben Okri's] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them: To what extent will we allow the indefinable dynamics of something… — Aberjhani
Ocean waters..oceans deep..Serious poets never sleep. — Sally-Ann Roberts

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