Quotes
ROSS PEROT, American businessman and former Presidential Candidate
“The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled.”
ERIC JOHNSTON, Former Pres. of U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Motion Picture Assn. of America
“The dinosaur’s eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.”
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.”
Walt Disney
“Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.”
Bill Gates, former CEO and Chairman of Microsoft
“I think it’s fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we’ve ever created. They’re tools of communication, they’re tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user,”
Winston Churchill
“We contend that for a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.”
Harry S. Truman
Social Security…is not a dole or a device for giving everybody something for nothing. True Social Security must consist of rights which are earned rights — guaranteed by the law of the land.”
Dr. BEN CARSON, Retired Surgeon, Columnist & Presidential Medal of Freedom Honoree
“Fairness is a two-way street and so is tolerance. If the majority refuses to fight for its rights, while a vocal minority uses a compliant media to try to fundamentally change America, we have only ourselves to blame.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.”
Ron Brown, president of the National Gulf War Resource Center
“Our veterans have been fighting for 23 years to get the benefits they’ve earned.” (See today’s headline post)