Initiative Quotes

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.
Eddie Rickenbacker

Character, Nation, Four

Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws.
George Soros

Respect, Alcohol, Individual

A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.
Franz Liszt

Through, Theatre, Receives

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.
Anna Pavlova

Success, Work, Hard

Informed opponents of Obama's healthcare initiative have expressed dismay at the low level of discourse.
Carl Hiaasen

Level, Obama, Healthcare

You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.
Chris Evert

Confidence, Game, Play

The strongest initiative that government can take to ensure Australia is prepared for population ageing, is to maintain a strong economy, and a secure nation.
Julie Bishop

Government, Strong, Nation

You destroy the initiative of the working people if they don't feel they have a fighting chance to be a part of the American Dream.
James Sinegal

Working, Fighting, Dream

The Clean Michigan Initiative has been and continues to be a success.
John Engler

Success, Clean, Michigan

My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning.
John Grierson

Society, Individual, Process

There are people in Baghdad pursuing the initiative that I started, and I want to give them every chance of success. I don't want to provide any distractions.
Scott Ritter

Success, Give, Chance

The Nuclear Security Summit was President Obama's initiative born out of his vision to leave behind a safer, more prosperous world for the future generation.
Lee Myung-bak

Future, Vision, Leave

Government cannot and must not replace private initiative.
Kim Campbell

Government, Cannot, Private

We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going to be full of initiative in all areas of life - in culture, in economy and in politics.
Andrzej Wajda

Life, Politics, Waiting

America's downgrade may serve as a wakeup call for its policymakers. It is an unambiguous and loud signal of the country's eroding economic strength and global standing. It renders urgent the need to regain the initiative through better economic policymaking and more coherent governance.
Mohamed El-Erian

Strength, May, Through

One of the most important post-9/11 efforts made to counter terrorism and the spread of weapons of mass destruction is President Bush's Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI).
Frank Gaffney

Important, Made, President

Rather than proposing a forward-looking energy initiative, House Republicans continue to push Big Oil's tired old ideas, ideas that will do absolutely nothing to lower gas prices for the American consumer.
Jan Schakowsky

Tired, Nothing, Old

Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.
Boris Spassky

Poor, Though, Modern

Really, even in this whole Obama initiative, and everything that's going on with the economy, the only way to jump start it is we have to give each other opportunity. That's the only way to make it work.
Doug E. Fresh

Work, Everything, Give

I think the court will determine that the Faith-Based Initiative that the White House has instituted in the last five years is constitutional, in the context of allowing for broad-based programs to include religious providers.
Jay Alan Sekulow

Last, Religious, House

Actually, I have been very supportive of a very robust stimulus package from day one. I think this economy has to have a major stimulus initiative because the only group with liquidity is the federal government.
Judd Gregg

Government, Group, Actually

We promote domestic savings by also things like the personal accounts associated with the president's Social Security initiative, which over time would generate more savings.
John W. Snow

Time, Personal, Social

I met the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his desire for a compassionate conservatism, for a faith-based initiative that would do something for poor people.
Jim Wallis

Faith, Poor, Desire

It's been years, decades, since a president has lost a major trade initiative. That would be bad headlines.
Gwen Ifill

Bad, Lost, Since

Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace.
Eddie Bernice Johnson

Peace, Women, Start

Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
Gale Norton

Help, Understand, Innovation

Last year, the Assembly of the League, as a result of the initiative taken by the Scandinavian nations, further limited and clarified all the provisions of the clause prescribing the duty of states to participate in sanctions.
Hjalmar Branting

Last, Year, Result

I hope that France - and all of Europe - we would take an initiative for the year 2012 to be the year of peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
Nicolas Sarkozy

Peace, Hope, Between

But thanks to the efforts, the initiative of the United States and of the several countries from the world, from Europe, including Turkey, it ended within a few weeks.
Bulent Ecevit

Few, Within, United

Within NATO, our Defence Capabilities Initiative has identified the essential capabilities all Allies must have for modern operations, and Allies are working to meet those requirements.
Lord Robertson

Working, Within, Meet

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