The whole campaign was a tragic case of mistaken identity.
I know how to run a nationally paced campaign.
The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work.
In my experience there are billions of dollars available for pieces of shit. As soon as the material distinguishes itself by something interesting, financing becomes a problem.
I'm convinced that unless you have some public financing of elections, you are never going to remove the power of wealthy interests over elected officials.
No matter what business you're in, business is business, and financing and money are critical. I would have made a lot fewer mistakes if I had more schooling in that area.
Oftentimes, small business owners are unable to obtain reasonably priced financing and instead turn to higher priced forms of capital, such as credit cards.
For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes.
A consumer-finance agency is a good thing, but it would do well to teach consumers a simple lesson: if you don't understand the deal you're making, don't make it.
I had - along with my singing and dancing, I was very happy to be born in the hometown of Dylan Thomas. So the government was financing dramatic groups and amateur dramatics and stuff like that.
I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.
Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.
If we can increase the share of Islamic finance for the world, countries can benefit - and certainly, Malaysia can benefit from that.
To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections.
In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.
It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending the revenue of a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and providing it.
We have people being a little uncomfortable in their life on Earth with finances and so on, so Science Fantasy or Science Fiction allows people to think that there are possibilities beyond the gravity of our planet.
Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?
I am financing the recording myself. So I have no big names to drop.
The holidays are also a time when people freak out about their finances. If you don't want to spend the money, why not try some of the other options instead of killing a bunch of animals?
I love anybody who's willing to stick to their own vision, their own voice, who's not easily swayed by money or by financers who are going to tell them what they should do.