Quotes of: Campaign-finance-reform Keyword

There aren't many American directors here trying to direct a Japanese yakuza film. When you combine that with the fact that I don't speak much Japanese and this was an independent film I was financing myself - people were curious about what I was doi...

John Foster

I had three weeks of prep on 'Wolfman,' a ridiculously inadequate amount of time to try to bring together the fractured and scattered pieces of the production. I had taken the job mostly because I had a cash flow problem, the only time in my career I...

Joe Johnston

Vesper Lynd: Ten million was wired to your account in Montenegro, with the contingency for five more if I deem it a prudent investment. I suppose you've given some thought to the notion that if you lose, our government will have directly financed ter...

Casino Royale

Mint is designed to put your finances on auto-pilot. Whether you log in or not, it will send you a weekly summary of your balances and biggest purchases, and how your investments and budgets are doing, along with sending you alerts on unusual spendin...

Aaron Patzer

Close to 80 percent of all terrorist activity in Samaria was directed and financed either by Hizbullah or the Iranians. Iran continues to increase its involvement in terror attacks inside Israel, particularly through a small but radical minority of I...

Ariel Sharon

Every day I get to 'Think' and work on everything from digitizing electric grids so they can accommodate renewable energy and enable mass adoption of electric cars, helping major cities reduce congestion and pollution, to developing new micro-finance...

Ginni Rometty

The CIA created, armed and financed the Contras. My father backed them with everything he had. It was my father's war, and almost everyone in Nicaragua has lost somebody as a result of it. I couldn't go down there, being his daughter, and expect not ...

Patti Davis

Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.

Ethical Ambition: Living a Life of Meaning and Worth

We were all changing. We didn't have to be changed, to be re-educated, to be reformed. Thad been done, already.

A Few Nights and Days

Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.

Faces At The Bottom Of The Well: The Permanence Of Racism

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.

Alfred Marshall

Relationships are supposed to mature. This maturing means growth and improvement, not the constant buzz of the initial rush.

Reforming Marriage

The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it.

No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam

Being a pioneering reformer is all fine and good, but it does leave one terribly in want of a good party!

The Likelihood of Lucy

The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

A Tract on Monetary Reform

Rest assured that my support for any eventual reform package will be based firmly upon what is in the best interests of the people of Upstate New York, not any party or president.

James T. Walsh

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

Oscar Wilde

Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.

P. J. O'Rourke

I agree with President Obama and Attorney General Holder that we need to reform our criminal sentencing laws.

Raul Labrador

Without significant reform, the Social Security Administration will be legally and financially unable to pay full promised benefits within a generation.

Ron Lewis

And I think Governor Romney has a shot if the 'R' next to his name doesn't just stand for 'Republican,' it stands for 'reformer.'

Scott Walker