Initiative Quotes - Page 23

• I would like to initiate an initiative - the Broadway Annoying Audience Member Relocation Programme.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Broadway, Annoying, Members

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• Are you an action-oriented, take-charge person interested in exciting new challenges? As director of a major public-sector organization, you will manage a large armed division and interface with other senior executives in a team-oriented, multinational initiative in the global marketplace. Successful candidate will have above-average oral-presentation skills

  Winston Churchill

  Senior, Team, Successful

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• I am all kinds of a democrat, so far as I can discover but the root of the whole business is this, that I believe in the patriotism and energy and initiative of the average man.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Believe, Men, Average

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1981). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Gentlemen, I have spent the night thinking about this Peruvian (peace) initiative and I have to tell you that if it is your decision to accept then you will have to find another Prime Minister.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Night, Thinking, Decision

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• These ballot initiatives remind us that America is the land where people are free to dream whatever they want, so long as that dream doesn't make Midwesterners feel icky!

  Lewis Black

  Dream, Land, America

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• If they gave a Nobel Peace Prize for work against big tobacco, not just in the industry, but also with the California tax initiative, he really deserves one.

  Joe Eszterhas

  California, Nobel Peace Prize, Bigs

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• I foresee a Liberal vote so massive and the number of Liberal MPs so great that we shall hold the initiative in the new Parliament.

  David Steel

  Mps, Numbers, Vote

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• So far, the only major accomplishment of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protesters is that they have finally put an end to their previous initiative, Occupy Our Mothers' Basements.

  Ann Coulter

  Mother, Wall, Accomplishment

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• The final and best means of strengthening demand among consumers and business is to reduce the burden on private income and the deterrence to private initiative which are imposed by our present tax system, and this administration pledged itself last summer to an across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes to be enacted and become effective in 1963.

  John F. Kennedy

  Summer, Mean, Cutting

  Address to the Economic Club of New York, delivered 14 December 1962, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

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• By declaring yourself a leader, you're taking initiative and moving into a role of influence in a lively and vital network that's changing the world. We're changing the world, first by changing ourselves and then by touching the world as changed beings. We believe the change in us catalyzes change in others. So in changing the world, we're choosing to be the change we wish to see in the world. By taking on this leadership role, you are choosing to be the change too.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Moving, Believe, Leader

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• Voluntary actions by corporations should not go beyond innovative win - win 'no regrets' initiatives. Greenhouse gas control practices that are uneconomic penalize either consumers or stockholders while politicizing the issue of corporate responsibility. Few will be satisfied, and the ineffectual measures will eventually have to be abandoned.

  Robert L. Bradley, Jr.

  Regret, Responsibility, Winning

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• Any man of energy and initiative can get what he wants out of life. But when initiative is crippled by legislation or by a tax system which denies him the right to receive a reasonable share of his earnings, then he will no longer exert himself and the country will be deprived of the energy on which its continued greatness depends.

  Andrew Mellon

  Country, Greatness, Men

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• The exploitation agenda advocated by liberals is modeled after the dependency-inducing design of the drug dealer's business model: "We'll supply the first hit for free, and after that, you'll need us forever in order to survive." In order for the liberal scheme to succeed, all attempts at self-empowerment or individual initiative are to be met with fierce resistance and social sanction.

  Angela McGlowan

  Order, Self, Forever

  Angela McGlowan (2009). “Bamboozled: How Americans are being Exploited by the Lies of the Liberal Agenda”, p.11, Thomas Nelson

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• Our president's latest energy initiative was to go to Saudi Arabia and beg King Abdullah to give us a little relief on gasoline prices. I guess there was some justice in that. When you, the president, after 9/11, tell the country to go shopping instead of buckling down to break our addiction to oil, it ends with you, the president, shopping the world for discount gasoline.

  Thomas Friedman

  Country, Kings, Gasoline Prices

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• Conservatives came to office to reduce the size of government and enlarge the sphere of free and private initiative. But lately we have increased government in order to stay in office. And, soon, if we don't remember why we were elected we will have lost our office along with our principles, and leave a mountain of debt that our children's grandchildren will suffer from long after we have departed this earth. Because, my friends, hypocrisy is the most obvious of sins, and the people will punish it.

  John McCain

  Children, Government, Order

  "McCain's two swipes at Bush" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2006.

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• Even before President [Barack] Obama announced actions aimed at tightening controls on gun purchases, sales were up, partly in reaction to terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino. Gun dealers say the president's initiatives have spurred sales. At the same time, polling shows more than two thirds of Americans support the president's proposals, including a majority of gun owners.

  Rachel Martin

  Gun, Two, Paris

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• There were initiatives I have remained involved with in the U.S. and in the Middle East, like the Peace Corps, which might be summed up as, "Ask not that the world serve you, but ask what you can do to serve the world."

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Middle East, World, Might

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• I don't think she ever had a single initiative at the United Nations that was not previously [vetted] by the people at the State Department, approved of, and authorized. She did manage to get around the world an awful lot, and find other parts of her vast slum project that needed repair. But I don't think that that was the main point. The main point was that she, after all, connoted Franklin Roosevelt, who by then was long dead, and had a certain prestige and power on that account.

  William A. Rusher

  Thinking, Long, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm not particularly optimistic, but I hope that the lack of alternatives will lead to it. I would like to remind you of the fact that before May 2015 there was no overall European agenda on immigration. Nothing, zero. It wasn't until after yet another tragedy in the Mediterranean that, in response to an Italian initiative, (Europe) began thinking about setting policies for the registration of refugees, their distribution or their deportation.

  Paolo Gentiloni

  Zero, Optimistic, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Lagos was the ultimate dysfunctional city - but actually, in terms of all the initiatives and ingenuity, it mobilised an incredibly beautiful, almost utopian landscape of independence and agency.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Beautiful, Agency, Cities

  "'Lagos shows how a city can recover from a deep, deep pit': Rem Koolhaas talks to Kunlé Adeyemi". Interview with Chris Michael, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2016.

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• President Bush has proven he'll take a stand and fight for his programs and initiatives. It's the kind of leadership that makes things happen.

  Chuck Grassley

  Fighting, President, Kind

  "Reaction to President Bush's speech". www.sfgate.com. January 24, 2007.

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• What happened to the Soviet Union happened mainly for domestic reasons. It was a failure of the model based on a command economy and dictatorship. The rejection of freedom and democracy, the decisionmaking monopoly of one party, and the monopoly of one ideology all had a chilling effect on the country. That model turned out to be incapable of making structural changes. It did not open up ways for initiative and was overly centralized.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Country, Party, Rejection

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. November 12, 2003.

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• I think our initiative with respect to education and economic development can work in Saudi Arabia and it is up to the Saudis to decide how they wish to transform their society in order to make it prepared for the challenges of the 21st century.

  Colin Powell

  Thinking, Order, Challenges

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• There is no suggestion of regime change; quite the contrary, this is an initiative to help people and to help governments who are inclined toward change.

  Colin Powell

  Government, People, Suggestions

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• There is a distorted perception of what goes on in Brussels. No one reports on the Commission taking a hundred initiatives from its predecessor off the table in order to shift competencies back to member state governments.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Government, Order, Perception

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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