FastSaying

Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.


Alan Greenspan

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what...
HARRY STYLES I saw that there is no Nature,
That Nature doesn’t exist,
That there are hills, valleys,...
ALBERTO CAEIRO It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
DAN FLAVIN With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i...
STEVEN STRAIT What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc...
CHRISTIAN BOBIN I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... There outside there is a lot of stuff which you learn, the clock illusion, that you live in the past...
DEYTH BANGER You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like...
BEBE REXHA To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset.
But what does someone who hates and love...
ALBERTO CAEIRO I consider a dream like I consider a shadow,” answered Caeiro, with his usual divine, unexpected p...
ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS If I knew I was going to die tomorrow,
And Spring came the day after tomorrow,
I would die...
ALBERTO CAEIRO Between what i see in a field and what I see in another field
There passes for a moment the fig...
ALBERTO CAEIRO It’s an already inside outside,
The philosophers say it’s the soul
But it’s not the ...
ALBERTO CAEIRO Do I believe a thing has limits!? Of course! Nothing exists that doesn’t have limits. Existence me...
ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.
ALBERTO CAEIRO Do. Then talk. In that order.
SOTERO M LOPEZ II See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Let your actions speak LOVE. No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO We will soon learn whether the Greenspan era has created a deep reservoir of faith in the Federal Re...
ALAN BLINDER Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.
Things are the only hidden meaning ...
ALBERTO CAEIRO The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
D.M. TIMNEY I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by ac...
ROBERT REDFORD Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY Just like any one of us, they started with no road map or guarantee of success. But they went out an...
CAMILLE SWEENEY What comes, when it comes, will be what it is.
ALBERTO CAEIRO Night doesn’t fall for my eyes
But my idea of the night is that it falls for my eyes.
Be...
ALBERTO CAEIRO Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO I take the good with the bad. I always wanted to be a comic, and part of that, for me, was that I wa...
ERIK GRIFFIN It ends or it doesn't.
That’s what you say. That’s
how you get through it.
The tu...
CAITLYN SIEHL I like to believe that science is becoming mainstream. It should have never been something that sort...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci...
DEYTH BANGER 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON I was born subject like others to errors and defects,
But never to the error of wanting to unde...
ALBERTO CAEIRO Accept the universe
As the gods gave it to you.
If the gods wanted to give you something e...
ALBERTO CAEIRO But what you’re calling poetry is what everything is. It’s not even poetry — it’s seeing. Th...
ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS I'm not an Emontional, but how???
I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has...
DEYTH BANGER When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily mani...
DAVE GROHL Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st...
NEHA KOTHARI Even so, I’m somebody.
I’m the Discoverer of Nature.
I’m the Argonaut of true sensat...
ALBERTO CAEIRO What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL 2. Overcommitment and time pressure are the greatest destroyers of marriages. It takes time to devel...
JAMES C. DOBSON I saw it, he wanted to buy something he was near to the store I went to see little far from him what...
DEYTH BANGER If you want a revenge, don't hold it. It poisons you.
Either you just let the grudge go, or mak...
TOBA BETA You don't find interesting stuff because you don't search enough, ... every book has it's own lesson...
DEYTH BANGER Some people are born good-looking. Some have the gift of gab. And some are lucky enough to be born s...
SIMON SINEK I'm one of my sensations.
ALBERTO CAEIRO Do the thing and you will have the power.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is...
DREW BREES I'm probably the least harsh on myself, and I try not to scrutinize everything about my body. As...
KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN Not everybody wants be texting their 15-year-old asking how his math tutor was. They would rather be...
RENEE JAMES The root problem of all problems is mind itself. The first thing to be understood is what this mind ...
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH As to gods, I have no way of knowing either that they exist or do not exist, or what they are like
PROTAGORAS Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly.
GINA GREENLEE While both these statements refer to eggs, the main difference between these two rather irking state...
CHRISTINA ENGELA But that’s the nature of money. Whether you have it or not, whether you want it or not, whether yo...
PHIL KNIGHT Everything known and referred to as “impossible” is often what has not been attempted before. It...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR If you are Alan Greenspan, it's hard to make a rule that would do any better.
ALLEN MELTZER dont wait for next minute, next hour, next day, next week, next year, just do it if you want to do i...
ANON QUOTER Do it and they will follow
CHARMAINE J. FORDE Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It’s quite possible to do anything...
JOHN LENNON Let your vision be ahead of your sight! Dream beyond what you see and never let your environment det...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR And since today’s all there is for now, that’s everything.
Who knows if I’ll be dead the ...
ALBERTO CAEIRO Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light.
GINA GREENLEE I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either.
Nobody goes faster than the legs they...
ALBERTO CAEIRO It is what it is. I balled out, had some good years, man, had fun and did it with some guys and made...
CALVIN JOHNSON Supposedly, going to war initiates you into this gnostic priesthood of people who've had a limin...
PHIL KLAY Her hormones slipped into their sexy underwear with a grin.
JENNIFER SCHMIDT There's no more film. Film is gone. We photograph digitally and electronically. We don't rea...
STANLEY DONEN If we do not voluntarily bring population growth under control in the next one or two decades, the n...
HENRY W. KENDALL There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him.
CASSANDRA CLARE There is no consensus as to what it is and how to diagnose it. People describe all sorts of symptoms...
JULIAN ELLIOTT Buying jewelry online is comparable to buying any other gift online. The biggest risk is not fraud b...
LIZ CHATELAIN 28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems.
JAMES C. DOBSON So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are...
T.S. ELIOT He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,...
LAURIE FRANKEL I'm living with every step. I can't live with regret. The past is the past. I'm not worr...
RYAN SHECKLER Corruption is everywhere. It's not just in the Congress. Corruption is not just your prerogative...
KAPIL SIBAL What you do will project you
SOTONYE ANGA Natural capital is easy to overlook because it is the pond we swim in. One can live perfectly well w...
PAUL HAWKEN But how can we venture to reprove or praise the universe! Let us beware of attributing to it heartle...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Everyone has a gift.
It's up to you to decide what you do with it.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS It is a singular honor for The Penguin Press to publish Alan Greenspan, who has spent his extraordin...
ANN GODOFF And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would die ...
ANNE RICE If you can dream it, you can do it.
ENZO FERRARI If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep.
DEYTH BANGER the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by ...
JOHN STUART MILL In this book it is spoken of the Sephiroth and the Paths; of Spirits and Conjurations; of Gods, Sphe...
ALEISTER CROWLEY But these few are the salt of the earth; without them, human life would become a stagnant pool. Not ...
JOHN STUART MILL Boxing's a poor man's sport. We can't afford to play golf or tennis. It is what it is. I...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD

More Alan Greenspan

You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven...
ALAN GREENSPAN Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go u...
ALAN GREENSPAN A further rise [in fuel prices] could cut materially into private spending and thus damp the rate of...
ALAN GREENSPAN I find it utterly inconceivable, frankly, that we can have the type of potential fiscal outlook, whi...
ALAN GREENSPAN Financial markets, along with households and businesses, seem to be reasonably well prepared to cope...
ALAN GREENSPAN Large deficits will result in rising interest rates and an ever-growing ratio of debt service to GDP...
ALAN GREENSPAN The hey day when a high school or college education would serve a graduate for a lifetime is gone, ....
ALAN GREENSPAN ...In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that ...
ALAN GREENSPAN these borrowers, and the institutions that service them, could be exposed to significant losses.
ALAN GREENSPAN My basic concern, ... is that, if we are forced to implement a very significant unilateral tariff, t...
ALAN GREENSPAN In retrospect, I see nothing that we did that was inappropriate in terms of policy,
ALAN GREENSPAN Chinese productivity is the highest in the world but the way they do it is by borrowing the technolo...
ALAN GREENSPAN I must say, I never expected to see the day where I would be talking about anything other than reduc...
ALAN GREENSPAN I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity be...
ALAN GREENSPAN I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adhere...
ALAN GREENSPAN Every economy exists, no matter what the level of democracy, has elements of crony capitalism. It...
ALAN GREENSPAN The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... a...
ALAN GREENSPAN In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through in...
ALAN GREENSPAN The only way you get economic progress, real standards of living moving higher, is to have the savin...
ALAN GREENSPAN I stated that I'm a libertarian Republican, which means I believe in a series of issues, such as...
ALAN GREENSPAN Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
ALAN GREENSPAN The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through you...
ALAN GREENSPAN At the outset of the creation of the euro in 1999, it was expected that the southern eurozone econom...
ALAN GREENSPAN The only way to have several currencies from divergent nations lumped together is if they are cultur...
ALAN GREENSPAN To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of edu...
ALAN GREENSPAN I do not understand where the backing of Bitcoin is coming from. There is no fundamental issue of ca...
ALAN GREENSPAN If somebody had said to me in June or July of 1987, 'We'd like you to become chairman of the...
ALAN GREENSPAN An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all p...
ALAN GREENSPAN I think the whole issue of a debt ceiling makes no sense to me whatsoever. Anybody who is remotely a...
ALAN GREENSPAN The person I liked the best was Gerald R. Ford. He was the most decent man in politics I ever had an...
ALAN GREENSPAN Much fiscal policy is implemented, not through spending increases, but through tax credits and other...
ALAN GREENSPAN We're a democratic society. Shutting down the government should not be on the agenda.
ALAN GREENSPAN The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is ...
ALAN GREENSPAN Fear invariably and universally induces disengagement, and disengagement is negative division of lab...
ALAN GREENSPAN Fear is a far more dominant force in human behaviour than euphoria - I would never have expected tha...
ALAN GREENSPAN I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood wha...
ALAN GREENSPAN What they perceive as newly abundant liquidity can readily disappear,
ALAN GREENSPAN Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projecti...
ALAN GREENSPAN Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to peopl...
ALAN GREENSPAN I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was...
ALAN GREENSPAN Derivative instruments were bystanders, ... They may well have intensified the losses in underlying ...
ALAN GREENSPAN Forecasting our futures is built into our psyches because we will soon have to manage that future. W...
ALAN GREENSPAN We really can't forecast all that well, and yet we pretend that we can, but we really can't.
ALAN GREENSPAN People don't realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of...
ALAN GREENSPAN There is a huge number of people outside our borders who would love to come here. In fact, many of t...
ALAN GREENSPAN Diplomacy is really far less important than the stock movements within Russia.
ALAN GREENSPAN The culture of Greece is not the same as the culture of Germany, and to fuse them into a single unit...
ALAN GREENSPAN I'm a free-market economist from years and years back, and I've never veered from that.
ALAN GREENSPAN The Fact that our economical models at The Fed, the best in the world, have been wrong for fourteen ...
ALAN GREENSPAN It is much too soon to conclude that these concerns are behind us, ... We cannot yet be sure that th...
ALAN GREENSPAN The housing boom will inevitably simmer down, ... As part of that process, house turnover will decli...
ALAN GREENSPAN The basic problem that we confront is given that the advantages [of globalization] are so much great...
ALAN GREENSPAN It is still too early to judge whether the froth will become evident on a widening geographic scale ...
ALAN GREENSPAN A significant amount of consumption is driven by capital gains on some combination of both stocks an...
ALAN GREENSPAN History cautions that extended periods of low concern about credit risk have invariably been followe...
ALAN GREENSPAN There is a palpable unease that businesses and jobs are being drained from the United States, with p...
ALAN GREENSPAN How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values....,
ALAN GREENSPAN Emperors and armies come and go, ... but unless they leave new ideas in their wake, they are of pass...
ALAN GREENSPAN Look at it! Look at it, damn you! This is the result of your consistent, persistent, grinding, impov...
ALAN GREENSPAN Keep 'em low, Al.
ALAN GREENSPAN I thought that the initiative that the Senate produced was very important and very effective,
ALAN GREENSPAN Whatever you tax, you get less of.
ALAN GREENSPAN an accident waiting to happen.
ALAN GREENSPAN There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone,
ALAN GREENSPAN Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country," Gre...
ALAN GREENSPAN The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, oft...
ALAN GREENSPAN Most high-income people in our country do not realize that their incomes are being subsidized by the...
ALAN GREENSPAN How significant and disruptive such adjustments turn out to be is an open question, ... shocks shoul...
ALAN GREENSPAN In principle, stock-option grants, properly constructed, can be highly effective in aligning corpora...
ALAN GREENSPAN Instead of trying to contain a putative bubble by drastic actions with largely unpredictable consequ...
ALAN GREENSPAN The one certainty is that the resolution of the nation's demographic challenge will require hard cho...
ALAN GREENSPAN If I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.
ALAN GREENSPAN I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood...
ALAN GREENSPAN I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I'm not sure you realize that what you ...
ALAN GREENSPAN ... the flexibility of our market-driven economy has allowed us, thus far, to weather reasonably wel...
ALAN GREENSPAN could prove destabilizing to our financial system as a whole and in the end could seriously diminish...
ALAN GREENSPAN One of the problems with hedge funds is that they are changing so rapidly. If you have the balance s...
ALAN GREENSPAN Such developments apparently reflect not only market dynamics but also the all-too-evident alternati...
ALAN GREENSPAN Technology is also damping upward price pressures through its effect on international trade,
ALAN GREENSPAN Technology and the Economy.
ALAN GREENSPAN There do appear to be, at a minimum, signs of froth in some local markets,
ALAN GREENSPAN intent on tightening 100 basis points (a full percentage point) in the early 2000 cycle.
ALAN GREENSPAN Manufacturing capacity is not a rigid level against which one bounces. When you are dealing with a w...
ALAN GREENSPAN I was sort of shocked when it all of a sudden turned out that I got all A's through college, wit...
ALAN GREENSPAN We have a moral obligation to use our prosperity at this moment, especially to uplift communities in...
ALAN GREENSPAN If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
ALAN GREENSPAN I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how...
ALAN GREENSPAN If you're going to move to private accounts, which I approve of, I think you have to do it in a caut...
ALAN GREENSPAN I would clearly prefer that if you can't run the surpluses, you have to get rid of the surpluses, I ...
ALAN GREENSPAN Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.
ALAN GREENSPAN The only thing that was economic, I might say, about my music career, aside from the fact that I did...
ALAN GREENSPAN I'm not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to...
ALAN GREENSPAN Although the tendency in recent months toward stabilization in the East Asian economies is encouragi...
ALAN GREENSPAN The notion of a bubble bursting and the whole price level coming down ... as a national phenomenon i...
ALAN GREENSPAN We have to do it in a cautious, gradual way. ... (We) should go slowly and test the waters.
ALAN GREENSPAN often in ways that were not readily foreseeable a year ago.
ALAN GREENSPAN What they perceive as newly abundant [cash] can readily disappear,
ALAN GREENSPAN could be exposed to significant losses.
ALAN GREENSPAN A good part of this expansion is a direct function of the decline in real equity premiums. That cann...
ALAN GREENSPAN We should not be cutting taxes by borrowing, ... We do not have the capability of having both produc...
ALAN GREENSPAN Foreign investors, both private and official, may become less willing to absorb ever-growing claims ...
ALAN GREENSPAN Fixed mortgage rates remain at historically low levels and thus should continue to fuel reasonably s...
ALAN GREENSPAN After the fact, we will look back on the Enron episode as a period when we put corporate governance ...
ALAN GREENSPAN I'm sorry I used that term. It's one which does suggest a froth in the market place. I would hesitat...
ALAN GREENSPAN Any notable shortfall in economic performance from the exemplary standard of recent years runs the r...
ALAN GREENSPAN It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in und...
ALAN GREENSPAN I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipul...
ALAN GREENSPAN Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.
ALAN GREENSPAN Increased jobs are the consequence of increased trade. Increasing jobs more than output implies a fa...
ALAN GREENSPAN Roger was the major policy maker during 9/11.
ALAN GREENSPAN It's only when the markets are perceived to have exhausted themselves on the downside that they ...
ALAN GREENSPAN The problem is you cannot have free global trade with highly restrictive, regulated domestic markets...
ALAN GREENSPAN Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
ALAN GREENSPAN The word 'measured' is more of a plan than a pledge,
ALAN GREENSPAN History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
ALAN GREENSPAN When you go back and look at American history, it's not terribly different from Canadian history...
ALAN GREENSPAN I always believed in animal spirits. It's not their existence that is new. It's the fact tha...
ALAN GREENSPAN It's the type of step you would want to take when you've had a decade-long fixed structure, ... I th...
ALAN GREENSPAN Markets do very weird things because it reacts to how people behave, and sometimes people are a litt...
ALAN GREENSPAN We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.
ALAN GREENSPAN to stagnate or worse.
ALAN GREENSPAN Notwithstanding the demonstrable advantages of the new international financial system, the Mexican f...
ALAN GREENSPAN Let me say this anyway on the record: We do not and have not been targeting stock prices for the pur...
ALAN GREENSPAN Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolute...
ALAN GREENSPAN Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we&#...
ALAN GREENSPAN It's hard to tell which assets will be toxic. The best way to ensure that only shareholders and ...
ALAN GREENSPAN I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, ...
ALAN GREENSPAN Should the pool of workers continue to shrink,
ALAN GREENSPAN History has demonstrated that implicit in any removal of power from central planners and broadening ...
ALAN GREENSPAN There have been signs recently that some of the forces that have been restraining the economy over t...
ALAN GREENSPAN There are sound reasons for concluding that the long-run picture remains bright ... but I would emph...
ALAN GREENSPAN I thought it was an exceptionally good study,
ALAN GREENSPAN If we delay, the adjustments could be abrupt and painful,
ALAN GREENSPAN What a sound money system does is to stabilize all the elements in it, and reduces the uncertainty t...
ALAN GREENSPAN This schedule change avoids a meeting that spans the terms of two chairmen,
ALAN GREENSPAN shares the university's mission in cultivating a diverse pool of candidates for coaching and staff p...
RICK GREENSPAN Personally, I'm not going to stand for anything that may be profane or abusive. By monitoring the si...
RICK GREENSPAN Rarely do you meet an individual with the energy, enthusiasm, purpose, work ethic and kindness that ...
RICK GREENSPAN There is a real concern his reputation has been unfairly damaged.
BRIAN GREENSPAN The idea that a province that doesn't have criminal jurisdiction could send someone to jail for that...
BRIAN GREENSPAN They're trying to up the ante. And the legislation is trying to up the ante. The maximum punishments...
BRIAN GREENSPAN Next year will be spent concentrating on preparing for the trial in Chicago commencing in March of '...
EDWARD GREENSPAN I don't think in Illinois a foreign lawyer has been given that status before at the federal level.
EDWARD GREENSPAN Mr Black asserts his innocence without qualification... (and) has, at all times, acted in good faith...
EDWARD GREENSPAN There is nothing contentious about obtaining court approval for a trip outside of North America. Cou...
EDWARD GREENSPAN Everything that we know about the United States tells us that they will not respect any protective o...
EDWARD GREENSPAN He is confident that, when given a full and fair opportunity to defend himself, he will be found inn...
EDWARD GREENSPAN This is a blatant example of overreaching by the prosecutor. These latest allegations add nothing ne...
EDWARD GREENSPAN A U.S. court has no jurisdiction over this alleged conduct in Canada.
EDWARD GREENSPAN This is a blatant example of overreaching by the prosecutor.
EDWARD GREENSPAN No such initiative has been attempted in recent much larger white collar financial crime cases where...
EDWARD GREENSPAN Basically we found tonight that our backup system wasn't nearly as fast as our primary system. That ...
RICK GREENSPAN I would hate to think that politics have a great role to play in investigations and charges, but I'v...
EDDIE GREENSPAN The allegations were known way back over two years ago by the auditor general. We don't know why it ...
EDDIE GREENSPAN When he is given a fair opportunity to defend himself, the allegations will be demonstrated to be un...
EDDIE GREENSPAN We expect to be exonerated on Tuesday.
EDDIE GREENSPAN I want to know whether or not Dr. Dukes is still on their list of experts.
EDDIE GREENSPAN No one is smarter or better than this guy, and if this man says there's no evidence to substantiate ...
EDDIE GREENSPAN The ripple effect of Dr. Dukes cuts right across the case in Hamilton as well.
EDDIE GREENSPAN Selling is simply the transfer of inthusiasm.
ALAN No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
ALAN WATTS I think most people have that crazy uncle they sit at Thanksgiving dinner with: someone they disagre...
ALAN COLMES Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
ALAN PERLIS Even in our deep ocean, there are ecosystems at work with no light whatsoever down in the deepest po...
ALAN STERN Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
ALAN BENNETT I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
ALAN BENNETT I always feel over-appreciated but underestimated.
ALAN BENNETT We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me ch...
ALAN BENNETT I'm less genial than people think, but I'm too timid to seem nasty.
ALAN BENNETT I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't qu...
ALAN BENNETT I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fall...
ALAN BENNETT I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
ALAN BENNETT I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that...
ALAN BENNETT All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
ALAN BENNETT We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's...
ALAN BENNETT Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
ALAN BENNETT I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The...
ALAN BENNETT Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
ALAN BENNETT Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
ALAN BENNETT Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception...
ALAN BENNETT Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
ALAN BENNETT Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; o...
ALAN BENNETT Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.
ALAN BENNETT If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
ALAN KING I have such a stressful job that the only way I can get it out of my mind is by running hard.
ALAN TURING I have had a dream indicating rather clearly that I am on the way to being hetero, though I don'...
ALAN TURING I want a permanent relationship, and I might feel inclined to reject anything which of its nature co...
ALAN TURING Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two ...
ALAN TURING No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brai...
ALAN TURING I want to enjoy not getting recognised while it lasts. But the mask is a symbol of unity. Anyone can...
ALAN WALKER Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.
ALAN BULLOCK The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
ALAN WATTS In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
ALAN PERLIS People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
ALAN KAY I'll work overtime to open the doors of opportunity to industry and commerce.
ALAN AUTRY Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, il...
ALAN MOORE I like Jacques Derrida; I think he's funny. I like my philosophy with a few jokes and puns. I kn...
ALAN MOORE We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
ALAN WATTS Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying...
ALAN DERSHOWITZ Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.
ALAN DERSHOWITZ