Takeovers Quotes

• It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover.

  W. Averell Harriman

  Europe, Communist, Economic

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• You bet every member of Congress who votes for this bill ought to read it, read it thoroughly, and understand that what we're looking at here amounts to nothing more than a government takeover of our health care economy, paid for with nearly a trillion dollars in new taxes on individuals and small businesses. And it must be opposed.

  Mike Pence

  Government, Dollars, Care

  "Why Read the Health Care Bill?". Interview with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. July 28, 2009.

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• But beyond the hysteria of phantom death panels, where is the abomination? Show me the provisions that will hurt consumers, because if you think a $110 billion a year tax break for working-class Americans to buy private health insurance is a government takeover, I welcome the debate.

  Jim McDermott

  Hurt, Thinking, Government

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• The biggest winners are surprises to me, and takeovers are even more surprising. It takes years, not months, to produce big results.

  Peter Lynch

  Years, Months, Winner

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

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• Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.

  J. Irwin Miller

  Long, Earning, Pressure

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• I took a chance with my heart and I feel it taking over

  Drake

  Love, Romantic, Heart

  "Song: "Find Your Love" ("Thank Me Later")". May 5, 2010.

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• Junk bonds are the Holy Grail for hostile takeovers.

  Roger Miller

  Holy Grail, Junk, Hostile

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• You need to face, you need to confront, and really properly look at what's happening, and not try and explain it away or give it justifications or anything, because at this juncture, we still, by our finger nails, have the chance to make a difference, and turn this around. And to not take part and to just watch…….., but if you don't push back, if you don't face it and confront it for what it is, it'll just takeover, and then no one will be free.

  Vivian Kubrick

  Differences, Giving, Making A Difference

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• Takeovers wouldn't cause the stock market to rise unless there is an upward reassessment of earnings (potential). People are more optimistic and confident about the future.

  Lawrence Summers

  Optimistic, People, Earning

  "Raiding Can Be Seen As Wake-Up Call For Corporate America". The Seattle Times, August 16, 1987.

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• Revival is not just an emotional touch; it's a complete takeover!

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Emotional, Revival

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss, Tim Grissom (2009). “Seeking Him: Experiencing the Joy of Personal Revival”, p.18, Moody Publishers

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• If I can win grammys then that means all you yet to be seen bedroom geniuses will one day TAKEOVER THE WORLD

  Skrillex

  Mean, Winning, One Day

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• I do not apologize for the takeover of the region by the Jews from the Palestinians in the same way I don't apologize for the takeover of America by the whites from the Red Indians or the takeover of Australia from the blacks. It is natural for a superior race to dominate an inferior one.

  Winston Churchill

  Race, America, Australia

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• The more there are riots, the more repressive actin will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wings, Faces, Revolution

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• The fears are unanimous. ObamaCare is too expensive. It is a government takeover of our healthcare system. Services will be diminished. The patient-doctor relationship will be eliminated. It will not make healthcare more affordable. And it will bankrupt small businesses.

  Joe Kyrillos

  Doctors, Government, Obamacare

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• We have seen this complete right wing takeover of modern liberalism, and it is an ugly spectacle to behold.

  Kevin Rudd

  Wings, Ugly, Modern

  Kevin Rudd's first speech to parliament as Labor Leader, www.theaustralian.com.au. December 5, 2006.

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• Prior to his takeover of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini was camping near Paris, giving daily news conferences to a fawning international press corps without a murmur of complaint to France from the United States about the disaster it was coddling in the incredibly naive liberal belief that this extremist cleric would be an improvement over the Shah.

  Alexander Haig

  Iran, Paris, Giving

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• The takeover of Harvard in 1805 by the Unitarians is probably the most important intellectual event in American history - at least from the standpoint of education

  Samuel Blumenfeld

  Education, Intellectual, Important

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• [The 'corporate takeover of people's lives'] also accounts for a lot of homogenization of culture. There are fast food restaurants everywhere. Every place tastes the same.

  Ani DiFranco

  People, Culture, Taste

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• Demonstrators for a government takeover of medicine have a right to discuss their demands, but no right to enact these demands.

  Ilana Mercer

  Father, Rights, Government

  "The Authentic Ass-troturfers". www.wnd.com. August 13, 2009.

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• It's interesting to see what people are saying about me. I like keep up with the latest rumors! A while back there was a rumor that I was going to do a film with Demi Moore about the takeover of Commodore computers!

  Warwick Davis

  People, Interesting, Rumor

  Interview with Brian Linder, www.theforce.net.

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• A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the latter. The sensation of this takeover is responsible for timbre; the realization of it, for destiny.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Destiny, Poetry, Realization

  Joseph Brodsky (2011). “Less Than One: Selected Essays”, p.177, Penguin UK

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• When bureaucrats talk about increasing our 'access' to x, y or z, what they're really talking about is increasing exponentially their control over our lives. As it is with the government health care takeover, so it is with the newly approved government plan to 'increase' Internet 'access.'

  Michelle Malkin

  Government, Talking, Internet Access

  "Internet Access Is Not a 'Civil Right'" by Michelle Malkin, www.newsbusters.org. December 22, 2010.

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• Why was the United States so afraid of an independent South Vietnam? Well, I think the reason again is pretty clear from the internal government documents. Precisely what they were afraid of was that the "takeover" of South Vietnam by nationalist forces would not be brutal. They feared it would be conciliatory and that there would be successful social and economic development - and that the whole region might work.

  Noam Chomsky

  Independent, Successful, Thinking

  Source: chomsky.info

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• Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.

  Yeardley Smith

  Funny Valentines Day, Romantic Love, Romance

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

  Susan Sontag

  Real, Political, Disease

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors”, p.107, Penguin UK

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