- Nov 07, 2020
Someone Quotes
On the someones who shape a moment.
This page includes praise for a steady presence who doesn't panic under pressure, and a note on a fictional character built to feel relatable even in impossible circumstances. For similar reflections, see Know.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up as the youngest child in a big, noisy family, and there was always someone around to hang out with.
- Buys
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- Nov 07, 2020
Roughly speaking, when you are dealing with business firms operating in a competitive system, you can assume that they're going to act rationally. Why? Because someone in a firm who buys things at $10 and sells them for $8.00 isn't going to last very long in that firm.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
If an individual sticks up a bank and walks off with $25,000, there are consequences. If someone who really could have had an insurance policy consumes $25,000 worth of health care, everyone else pays for that.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think reasonable people could agree that, at some point, there's enough income that someone should be expected to participate in the health-care system.
- Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it's supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group of individuals.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need different perspectives here in Washington - someone who has private-sector experience, somebody who's actually created jobs, manufactures products, understands the incentives and disincentives, the intended and unintended consequences of legislation.
- Brokerage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the stock market, because the broker was someone with a much higher tolerance for risk than the banker.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
A jurist can obey the letter of the law and violate its spirit, or it can follow the spirit of the law and violate the letter of the law. I want someone who can reconcile the letter and the spirit of the law without partisan leanings.
- Laurels
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not someone to sit on her laurels.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020