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Bill Janklow Quotes
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Type: Politician Quotes Category: American Politician Quotes Date of Birth: September 13, 1939 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Bill Janklow Related Authors: Benjamin Franklin Adlai E. Stevenson Donald Rumsfeld Jon Porter Tim Bishop Bill Frist John C. White Al From |
At one time, in my last couple years in office, 16 percent of all the people in the state were employed in the financial services industry.
Bill Janklow Citibank had nothing to do with getting reelected. Bill Janklow Folks can't carry around money in their pocket. They've got to go to an ATM machine, and they've got to pay a few dollars to get their own dollars out of the machine. Who ever thought you'd pay cash to get cash? That's where we've gotten to. Bill Janklow I bought a railroad during this period of time. Bill Janklow I can just tell you that I'm sorry for what happened, and I think people understand that. Bill Janklow I like practicing law. Bill Janklow I'm not one person to think kids shouldn't leave home, and it doesn't bother me that they leave my state and go live someplace else. Bill Janklow If you knew the upward mobility that South Dakota's kids have gotten from the opportunity to intern and to work and to be employed and to have upward mobility in that company and move on, it's been phenomenal for South Dakota. Bill Janklow On the other hand, I've enjoyed being a lawyer. Bill Janklow Our sales-tax collections actually took in less total money one year than the previous year. That's how bad our economy was in South Dakota. Bill Janklow So people ought to be free to leave here, but there ought to be opportunity for them to come home. Bill Janklow South Dakota had laws - when I came to the governor's office, South Dakota had very tight historical laws on what you could charge to borrow. Bill Janklow The deal we made was that if we would change our law to invite them to come to South Dakota - that's what they wanted, the invitation - if we would change our law to invite them to come to South Dakota, he would guarantee South Dakota 400 Citibank jobs. Bill Janklow The rest of the world wants our cash; we like plastic. Bill Janklow There's a world out there, and you've got to look at both sides of the mountain in your lifetime. Bill Janklow They're pushing credit cards. They don't take Visa, but they do take American Express, or they don't take this one, but they take that one, or you'd better bring this one, or if you forget who you are, look on your credit card; it will be there. Bill Janklow Those 3,000 jobs in Sioux Falls, based on our population back then in Sioux Falls, would have taken 300,000 jobs in New York City to equal it at Citibank. Bill Janklow We've become a plastic society. Bill Janklow What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank. Bill Janklow What's taken God 200 years to create was wiped out in a couple of days by what was apparently an arsonist, And it just shows you what a sick world we live in nowadays. Bill Janklow You stick a credit card in a machine, and you pay $3 or whatever it is to get cash - your own money. Bill Janklow |
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