Sheila Bair quotes

  • If an institution has become so large that there is no alternative except for the taxpayers to provide support, should we allow so many institutions to exceed that kind of threshold?
    -- Sheila Bair

    #Support #Alternatives #Kind

  • I personally feel that I should support people who are doing good work and people should also support such good work.

  • I know that many people disagree with the way I disciplined my child. I also understand after meeting with a psychologist that there are other alternative ways of disciplining a child that may be more appropriate.

  • You learned that if you're tired enough, you can sleep sitting up. That the unendurable is perfectly endurable if you just take it a minute at a time, and when the alternative is no more minutes ever...

  • I think anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in history when torture was considered a reasonable alternative to diplomacy.

  • ... the smaller the domain where choices among alternatives are made collectively, the smaller will be the probability that any individual's preference gets overruled.

  • Of course, there's an alternative to terrorism: it's called justice.

  • It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup from its kind.

  • My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.

  • I think you kind of have to put yourself out there.

  • I never consciously set out to be an actor. I just kind of did whatever acting I could do.

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