Jacques Delors Quotes

This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.

Jacques Delors

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NobodyDesireResponsibleEquity

We've become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that's been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards to the American political system that I've ever seen in my life.

Jimmy Carter

LifeDemocracyThinkPoliticalMoral

For the son of immigrants to run for elected office, not even a generation after my parents got here, that's what makes America a great place.

Jimmy Gomez

SonGreatParentsGenerationAmerica

I'm such a foodie.

Jessie James Decker

HappyDramaJustVeryEric

WikiLeaks is exposing our government officials for the frauds that they are. They also show us how governments work together to lie to their citizens when they are waging war.

Jesse Ventura

WorkTogetherLieGovernmentWarUs

In Scotland, I was brought up to think of policemen as allies and to ask one for help when I needed it.

Angus Deaton

ThinkHelpAskUpScotlandAllies

And today more than ever, knowing about that society involves first of all choosing what approach the inquiry will take, and that necessarily means choosing how society can answer.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

TodaySocietyWillKnowingFirst

Well, in Japan, I have got a group of musicians that I have worked with a lot, that concentrate just on the hardcore stuff, say, that Naked City has been working on. We have like a repertoire of sixty songs now.

John Zorn

CityMusiciansNowSayGroupNaked

There was a break in the proceedings when Peter Greste was deported, and that was considered sufficient then to allow the executive to intervene.

Amal Clooney

BreakExecutiveAllowThenPeter

Presidential aspirants reach for the highest office to satisfy some yearning for greatness or even immortality.

Robert Dallek

GreatnessReachOfficeImmortality

There is nothing - nothing - worse than seeing ankle or a hairy calf when a man in a suit or trousers sits down.

Roger Stone

ManSeeingDownNothingSuitWorse

On my tombstone it will say: 'I tried everything - nothing was easy.'

Rita Rudner

EasySayNothingWillEverything

Growing up in a specific area has a certain sociological and economic reason, so I'm interested in using myself as a case study to look as those things.

Martine Syms

MyselfGrowing UpLookGrowingStudy

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