I.B. George Quotes

Whenever there is a conflict between universal principles and self-interest, self-interest is likely to prevail.

If we care about universal principles such as freedom, democracy and the rule of law, we cannot leave them to the care of market forces; we must establish some other institutions to safeguard them.

I am against market fundamentalism. I think this propaganda that government involvement is always bad has been very successful - but also very harmful to our society.

An open society calls itself open to improvement. It is based on the recognition that people have divergent views and interests, and that nobody is in possession of the ultimate truth.

You could adjust the punishment to fit the infraction. Even a small fine would be enough to bring an errant government to heel.

Sometimes time actually works against you if you refuse to face the relevant issues and explain to the public what is at stake.

The dark comes before dawn. The financial markets are under great pressure because of the lack of leadership during the transition period.

The key problem is the debt restructuring in the euro zone. As long as the debt burden is not reduced, there is no chance of the weaker EU countries regaining competitiveness.

Economics seeks to be a science. Science is supposed to be objective and it is difficult to be scientific when the subject matter, the participant in the economic process, lacks objectivity.

Any central bank should only be in charge of liquidity. Solvency is a matter for the treasury.

I think that my foundation uses the money better than the government does. In any event, I do pay taxes.

We take as given the idea of distinction and the idea of indication, and that one cannot make an indication without drawing a distinction. We take therefore the form of distinction for the form.

There's only 10 guys making big bucks in wrestling, and the rest of them they're making good money, but they're not blowing it away.

My best and worst boss was the same man - my father. He never - and I mean never - took 'I can't' for an answer. He taught me the value system that, to this day, I have continued to practice.

I guess heaven needed a shortstop.

If there is a chronic infirmity by which every teacher ought to be afflicted, it is, indeed, hope.

I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to his or her use of the relevant language.

Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely.

The whispers of shared ecstasy are choral.

I am much obliged by the favorable sentiments you express towards me, and shall be happy if I can be of service in carrying into execution your plans.

Let him who is worthy by reason of his clear eye and unjaded heart wander across these borders of beauty and mystery and be glad.

Stigler's Law: No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.

Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ewer lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return.

This is the kind of problem you want to have! Country radio has been great to me my whole career. I can't thank those folks enough.

I've been blessed with the ability to sing, and that has taken me so many places I never would have gone otherwise.

I'm glad He had the never while staring into space, to give this universe a time and place.

Sinatra, in my opinion, is possibly the greatest male singer of all time.

I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters.

We need to take our passion and effect real change at the local, state, and federal levels, to help elect progressive leaders, and to stem the tide of division, fear and scapegoating.

Facebook itself has an interest in having great content so that its users keep coming back.

Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.

Rock and roll never sleeps. It just passes out.

All I have is my performance, I try to feed in the best of everything that I could possibly do into those 90 minutes and to make a live entertainment show out of it.

Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers to astound the multitude.

It is not stress that kills us. It is effective adaptation to stress that allows us to live.

Anxiety and depression are the price you pay for a well-lived life.

The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray.

I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

America's making a long-term commitment to help the people of Lebanon because we believe every person deserves to live in a free, open society that respects the rights of all.

Removing Saddam Hussein was the right decision early in my presidency, it is the right decision now, and it will be the right decision ever.

The proper response to difficulty is not to retreat. It is to prevail.

... for those of us who lived through these events, the only marker we'll ever need is the tick of a clock at the 46th minute of the eighth hour of the 11th day.

I don't think you should support the death penalty to seek revenge. I don't think that's right. I think the reason to support the death penalty is because it saves other people's lives.

If the terriers and bariffs are torn down, this economy will grow.

All across America, we gather this week with the people we love to give thanks to God for the blessings in our lives.

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.

Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform.

This is an impressive crowd: the Have's and Have-more's. Some people call you the elites. I call you my base.

I can change, but as we speak now, I really have zero desire to see my name in the press.