I took office as president in January 2003, and in April 2003, I sent to Congress my first proposal for tax reform. Some parts were voted on, with respect to federal taxes, and then it came to a standstill. Why? Because each state is interested in its own tax reform, has its own tax policy, and each state has its federal deputies and senators.
I put less stock in others' opinions than my own. No one else's opinions could derail me.
Individual nations have offered their own contributions to income inequality - financial deregulation and upper-bracket tax cuts in the United States; insider privatization in Russia; rent-seeking in regulated industries in India and Mexico.
Since I was not able wholly to subscribe to any one set of beliefs advanced by any 'guru' I had to fall back on my own, however derivative.
We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.
Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.
Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.
The term 'globalisation' is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.
Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.
O never give me over to my own heart's desires, nor let me follow my own imaginations!
Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.
My husband and I own half a dozen iPods, a Mac desktop, and four Mac laptops. We're clearly fans of Mr. Jobs' work.
A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.
Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did.
It would be a most despicable thing to suggest I would exploit the poor for my own personal gain.
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.
Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
