Institutions Quotes

Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II.
Warren Christopher

War, After, State

Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong.
Jose Manuel Barroso

Wrong, Decisions, Often

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
Berthold Auerbach

Lives, Abstract, Judaism

A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important.
Lee R. Raymond

Society, Strong, Important

Challenges of historic import threaten America's future. Action on the deficit, economy, energy, health care and much more is imperative, yet our legislative institutions fail to act. Congress must be reformed.
Evan Bayh

Health, Future, Care

I'm very proud of what we've done with the State University and the City University. They're totally different institutions than they were when I took office.
George Pataki

Done, Different, Proud

Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.
William Graham Sumner

Law, Liberty, Status

The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms.
Christopher Dawson

Knowledge, Political, Between

Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other.
Robert Teeter

Leadership, Together, Rather

We differ on several issues. And this may include settlement, the release of prisoners, the wall closing institutions in Jerusalem.
Mahmoud Abbas

May, Issues, Wall

I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. It's such a strange and fascinating country, and instead of learning about it through a textbook, I would rather discover its history and traditions and institutions through fiction and nonfiction writers.
Hope Davis

Work, History, Learning

The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.
C. Everett Koop

Find, Fact, Act

You need in the long run for stability, for economic growth, for jobs, as well as for financial stability, global economic institutions that make sure that growth to be sustained has to be shared, and are built on the principle that the prosperity of this world is indivisible.
Gordon Brown

Long, Sure, Growth

Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.
James F. Cooper

Happiness, Freedom, Political

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.
Thorstein Veblen

Human, Service, Spirit

At the heart of these challenges lies the question of how the institutions of the European Union make laws, the types of laws they pass and the effectiveness with which those laws are implemented on civil society and the economy.
John Hutton

Society, Heart, Question

But we can turn challenges into opportunities if we look outwards to the realities of the global economy and modernise our internal institutions in ways that will equip Europe to meet that challenge and create confidence amongst the public.
John Hutton

Confidence, Challenge, Public

We must seek to persuade member states and institutions that better regulation in Europe does not mean cutting health and safety in the workplace, nor does it mean dismantling social standards.
John Hutton

Health, Mean, Social

Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so.
Gene Robinson

Change, Speaking, Slow

Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better.
Maria Cantwell

Change, Leadership, Power

My theory of change is that there are already millions of people working day in and day out on the ground to deliver on promises on global change. We need to strengthen those institutions and help those people in the field.
Chris Hughes

Change, Help, Working

All Moroccans are justifiably proud of the development of democratic institutions in Morocco.
Donald Evans

Proud, Democratic, Morocco

I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
Paddy Ashdown

Create, Chips, Heads

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
Paddy Ashdown

Society, Failure, Greatest

We also must pull from our highest ideals of justice and protect against those ills that destabilized our economy - like predatory lending, over-leveraged financial institutions and the unchecked avarice of the past that trumped fairness and common sense. Our platform calls for significant cuts in federal spending.
Cory Booker

Past, Justice, Sense

I have a vision that's about technology that empowers consumers over institutions.
Michael K. Powell

Technology, Vision, Consumers

Dillinger at one point was the second most popular man in America after President Roosevelt. And he was a national hero for a good reason. He was robbing the very institutions, the banks, which had afflicted the people for four years, and after four years nothing was getting any better.
Michael Mann

Good, Nothing, Hero

France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions.
Jacques Chirac

France, Responsive, Insist

I recognized that teaching and research institutions vitally depend on the involvement of active scientists also in management functions.
Richard Ernst

Research, Management, Teaching

At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging.
Adam Schiff

State, Top, Texas

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