There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy.
Timothy Geithner

The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior.
Marilyn Hacker

I've always said I can't tell sometimes that people even have an album out until I see them nominated for a Grammy. I think country gets dumped on across the board by the Grammys.
Toby Keith

Life has been good to me. It's not like I missed an awful lot. I had a pretty good lick here. Every moment gets a little more important.
Michael Landon

Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off.
Joan Jett

There's nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way.
Alex Van Halen

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.
Don DeLillo

In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind.
Richard Gere

Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.
Alan Rickman

When someone gets a job, it better be clear what they did to get it.
Mark V. Hurd

What happens when the guy who runs the reactor gets out of bed wrong or decides, for some reason, that he wants to override his instruction sheet some afternoon?
David R. Brower

Everyone talks about age, but it's not about age. It's about work ethic. Winning never gets old.
Lisa Leslie

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
Roger Bannister

The old Court you and I served so long will not be worthy of its traditions if Nixon can twist, turn and fashion If Nixon gets away with that, then Nixon makes the law as he goes along - not the Congress nor the courts.
Earl Warren

Well, you know, Pudge Rodriguez, obviously is as good as it gets.
Johnny Bench

I've reached out to other mayors throughout the United States to form an Olympic Task Force of Mayors, and to community leaders, Congress, and businesspeople. As thousands of people around the country join the movement, it gets more and more exciting.
Richard M. Daley

I'm the one who gets called up about a problem. I'm the one who gets called up about the street lighting and the abandoned car. I'm the one who gets blamed if the police don't arrive. I'm the one they blame if a city truck is broken down.
Richard M. Daley

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.
Don Marquis

Just because someone gets arrested doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong. Some laws are unfair and unjust.
Tim Robbins

I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker.
Tim Robbins