System Quotes
- Page 39Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting.
James Buchan
The basic idea was that if a country would put its economy as an integrated piece of the world system, that it would benefit from that with economic growth. I concur with that basic view.
Jeffrey Sachs
The current system punishes communities which make the investment in creating landfills, only to have them filled by states which refuse to adequately address their waste issues.
Paul Gillmor
They have a beautiful security system and we're emulating the whole security infrastructure.
Miguel de Icaza
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Anais Nin
There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe we are the only men.
George Wald
In this life and death case, I felt Mrs. Schiavo should receive the fullest due process from our legal system.
Paul Gillmor
The U.S. will lose its status as the superpower of the world financial system. The world will become multi-polar.
Peer Steinbruck
We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.
Barbara Jordan
We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.
Sandra Day O'Connor
You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.
Saffron Burrows
I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
Noam Chomsky
A world in which others controlled the course of their own development, would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered.
Benjamin Cohen
Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective.
Jessica Savitch
When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit.
Brian De Palma
India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.
Abdul Kalam
This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we're not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there.
George Takei
I am a conservative Republican, a firm believer in free market capitalism. A free market system allows all parties to compete, which ensures the best and most competitive project emerges, and ensures a fair, democratic process.
Sarah Palin
America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us.
Patti Davis
The political system loves the extremes, it doesn't so much show a lot love for the moderates.
Claire McCaskill
The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.
Scott Adams
I'm not after a closed system, I mean I'm after a complicated system in structure, but as far as watching it, I don't think that everything should be decided.
Mark Morris
My last real job was selling air time for CBS affiliates. I quit that when I was 28, and that was the last real job I had. I beat the system. I've been able to do this full-time for almost 15 years.
James Denton
There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.
P. J. O'Rourke
Teaching was my transition from student life to working life. In those days, our system of education was a little different. The number of students in each class was huge. I think in political science general, which I taught, it was around 100.
Pranab Mukherjee
I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.
Albert Ellis
Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.
Abdallah II