Short-Term Quotes
78 quotes by 72 authors
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Obama and the Democrats' preposterous argument is that we are just one more big tax increase away from solving our economic problems. The inescapable conclusion,…
— Bob Beauprez
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The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
— Harry Browne
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There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need…
— Buzz Aldrin
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We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.
— Kofi Annan
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If you have a lot of short-term debt, it means that all of that money can be demanded in a very short period of time.…
— Jeffrey Sachs
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I think we will see better vaccines within the next 15 years, but I'm not a scientist and am focused on the short-term - what…
— Paul Farmer
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We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country…
— Bruce Babbitt
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While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short-term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long-term.
— Sylvia Mathews Burwell
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A lot of times when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will…
— Daniel H. Pink
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The simple truth is, the short-term solution is for the FDA to allow more importation of safe vaccines from other nations. But the long-term solution…
— Larry Craig
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Capitalism believes that its remit is exclusively to make maximum short-term profits.
— Jeremy Grantham
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An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in…
— K. Eric Drexler
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When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder…
— J. William Fulbright
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The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.
— Tony Snow
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But obviously, we can't afford to make some bad long-term decisions with regard to basic commitments our country has - trade those away for some…
— Fred Thompson
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For an economic recovery program to be effective, it must not only create a short-term economic boost but also generate lasting value. Home Star would…
— Peter Welch
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The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits,…
— Vince Cable
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We cannot shun our values as an immigrant nation. This is a wrong path. And while possibly it is a short-term political victory based on…
— Raul Grijalva
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One of my problems, so to speak, is that, in America, we tend to think in relatively short-term. In the Middle East and Asia and…
— Jay Rockefeller
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I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.
— Pat Bowlen
Who Wrote These Short-Term Quotes
72 authors contributed a total of 78 Short-Term Quotes, led by these top contributors: