Imports Quotes

• Our goal as a nation must be to rely less on imports and more on products made here in the USA.

  Donald Trump

  Usa, Goal, Made

  "Trump's 'America First' Agenda Marks Sharp Break In U.S. Economic Policy", wbgo.org. February 28, 2017.

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• The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by allowing them a direct representation in the Senate, and leaves in their possession certain exclusive and very important portions of sovereign power. This fully corresponds, in every rational import of the terms, with the idea of a federal government.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Ideas, Government, Important

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.85, Rowman & Littlefield

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• It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Oil, Political

  "It's Dumbo v Pinocchio" by Francis Wheen, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2000.

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• Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

  Aristotle

  Nature, Great Poetry, Poetry Is

  "Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation".

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• Somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the food you eat has been touched by immigrant hands, and it is fair to say some of them are not here as they should be here. But if you didn't have these folks, you would be spending a lot more - three, four or five times more - for food, or we would have to import food and have all the food security risks.

  Tom Vilsack

  Hands, Risk, Three

  "Vilsack offered to resign over flap" by Roger Simon, www.politico.com. August 25, 2010.

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• Facebook is inherently viral. There are lots of sites that include a contact importer, and for lots of them it doesn't really make sense. For Facebook it fits so well. It wasn't until a few years in that we started building some tools that made it easier to import friends to the site. That was a huge thing that spiked growth.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Years, Growth, Tools

  "Startup School". Interview with Jason Kincaid, www.washingtonpost.com. October 24, 2009.

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• Most of us know what we should expect to find in a dragon's lair, but, as I said before, Eustace had read only the wrong books. They had a lot to say about exports and imports and governments and drains, but they were weak on dragons.

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Government, Dragons

  C. S. Lewis (1997). “The voyage of the Dawn Treader”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.

  Bram Stoker

  Men, Faces, Horror

  Bram Stoker (2016). “Dracula”, p.14, Zillmann Publishing

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• The U.S. now imports over half of its oil supply from the Middle East. This dangerous dependence on foreign energy sources is an issue of national security.

  Kenny Marchant

  Oil, Issues, Energy

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• The working out of a balanced economy throughout Germany to provide the necessary means to pay for approved imports has not been accomplished, although that too is expressly required by the Potsdam Agreement.

  James F. Byrnes

  Mean, Agreement, Work Out

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• Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Truth, Integrity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.70, Xist Publishing

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• Medical tourism can be considered a kind of import: instead of the product coming to the consumer, as it does with cars or sneakers, the consumer is going to the product.

  James Surowiecki

  Sneakers, Car, Tourism

  "Club Med". www.newyorker.com. April 16, 2012.

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• Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Baseball, Country, Humorous

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• We have to start with a ban on the manufacturing and import of handguns. From there we register the guns which are currently owned, and follow that with additional bans and acquisitions of handguns and rifles with no sporting purpose.

  Major Owens

  Gun, Rifles, Acquisition

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• Let me insist and emphasise it because I would like all of my sannyasins to be creative in some way. To me, creativity is of tremendous import. An uncreative person is not a religious person at all.

  Rajneesh

  Religious, Creativity, Creative

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• They have been saying for a long time that Iraq made an effort to import active uranium, and my colleague demonstrated the other day that they came to the conclusion that it was a fake document that everybody is relying upon.

  Hans Blix

  Fake People, Iraq, Long

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• Supporters of this fundamental change in immigration policy say we need to import more well-educated talent if we're to stay competitive. But exactly whose competitiveness are we talking about? Not the competitiveness of, say, American-born computer engineers. Adjusted for inflation, their earnings haven't gone anywhere in years. That's in part because American companies have been sending so much of their high-tech work abroad. Bringing more foreign-born engineers here under an expanded H1-B visa program, or a point system for that matter, will just depress wages even further.

  Ronald Reagan

  Depressing, Talking, Years

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• Often motivated by a desire to maintain the existing status quo, sloth almost cost the U.S. its auto industry, as it refused for decades to build fuel-efficient cars to compete with Japanese, Korean and European imports.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Maintaining The Status Quo, Car, Sloth

  "Capitalism’s Seven Debtly Sins" by Simon Mainwaring, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 24, 2011.

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• The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure.

  Dan Lipinski

  Facts, Energy, Burning Fossil Fuels

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• Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.

  Dan Lipinski

  Country, Oil, Too Much

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• I grew up in Chicago, and there was always snow. In Los Angeles there never was, so we would always import snow!

  David Hasselhoff

  Snow, Chicago, Los Angeles

  "David Hasselhoff, ‘The Christmas Consultant’ Star, Reminisces About Childhood Holidays". Interview with Naughty But Nice Rob, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2012.

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• Here at home, ... while the most likely scenario remains solid growth and low inflation -- subject to the usual ups and downs -- certain sectors have been impacted by the crisis, some because of increased imports and others because of decreased exports. Moreover, problems in the global economy do constitute a risk to all our overall economic well-being.

  Robert Rubin

  Home, Risk, Growth

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• When experience contradicts firmly held judgments of self-efficacy, people may not change their beliefs about themselves if the conditions of performance are such as to lead them to discount the import of the experience

  Albert Bandura

  Self, People, May

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• If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Suicide, Doubt, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colossal adventure it is an experience of great social import. Even as the tranced swain, the booklover yearns to tell others of his bliss. He writes letters about it, adds it to the postscript of all manner of communications, intrudes it into telephone messages, and insists on his friends writing down the title of the find. Like the simple-hearted betrothed, once certain of his conquest

  Christopher Morley

  Falling In Love, Real, Book

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.213, Melville House

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