David Malpass quotes

“The tenth amendment said the federal government is supposed to only have powers that were explicitly given in the Constitution. I think the federal government's gone way beyond that. The Constitution never said that you could have a Federal Reserve that would have $2.8 trillion in assets. We've gotten out of control.”
-- David Malpass

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“Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there's little pause for moral or legal contemplation.”
-- David Malpass

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“It is more important what the jobs report shows in December and January -- that will affect how many rate hikes we'll have this spring.”
-- David Malpass

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“Already were seeing graduates of U.S. higher education going back to their home countries and contributing to societies there, where in the past they would have stayed in the U.S. and built new companies here. We have to have immigration reform that allows talented foreigners to become Americans.”
-- David Malpass

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“The Fed should make a clear commitment to stable money to reduce the swings in interest rates and inflation. Instead, it champions and flaunts unstable money. This encourages momentum trading and the growth of derivatives. Meanwhile, layers of financial regulation make Washington bigger and more powerful but dont fix the underlying problems.”
-- David Malpass

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“To win elections, politicians have promised practically endless government spending and covered up the cost, leaving generations of taxpayers obligated to pay off the debt. That's wrong, but neither the U.S. nor Europe has a plan to stop it.”
-- David Malpass

Source : "And the Crisis Winner Is? Government". "The Wall Street Journal", December 16, 2011.

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“When Congress legislates in haste, it often causes more problems than it solves. But Congress rarely reconsiders its mistakes.”
-- David Malpass

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“Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream. I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be? So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you. Should've known you'd bring me heartache. Almost lovers always do.”

Source : Song: Almost Lover, Album: One Cell in the Sea, 2007

“Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.”

“Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...”

Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă" ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.

“It was, however, resolved that 'we use our private influence at present to prevent our brethren from going into court and promising to obey the law; and as soon as possible we take steps to get some flavors from the government for those who already have more wives than one.'”

“That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

“A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.”

“In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.”

Source : Abdus Salam, Ahmed Ali (1994). “Selected Papers of Abdus Salam: (with Commentary)”, p.306, World Scientific

“The sun in my life, it is gone, it is gone”

“Today, tomorrow," she said. "A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.”

“We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.”

Source : William Wordsworth, Adam Sedgwick (1853). “A complete guide to the Lakes, comprising minute directions for the tourist, with mr. Wordsworth's Description of the scenery of the country, &c. and Three letters upon the geology of the Lake district, by prof. Sedgwick”, p.183