Sheila Bair quotes

Sheila Bair quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“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

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“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.”

Source : "NFL Star Adrian Peterson Cleared to Play by Vikings, Speaks Publicly on Child Abuse Charge" by Ashley Lee, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 15, 2014.
“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.”

Source : Anthony De Jasay (2014). “Against Politics: On Government, Anarchy and Order”, p.49, Routledge
“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.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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