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

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

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

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

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

Never relinquish the initiative.
Charles de Gaulle

No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.
Charles E. Wilson

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

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

Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack.
Wilhelm Steinitz

Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.
Louis D. Brandeis

People who ask us when we will hold talks with Pakistan are perhaps not aware that over the last 55 years, every initiative for a dialogue with Pakistan has invariably come from India.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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

Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.
Cesar Chavez

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?
Tony Robbins

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

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

The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative.
Corliss Lamont

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

The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.
Harry Browne