Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

There is no tariff so injurious as that with which sectarian bigotry guards its commodities. It dwarfs the soul by shutting out truths from other continents of thought, and checks the circulation of its own.

Abraham Lincoln

I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff.

Ambrose Bierce

TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.

Albert J. Nock

The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer robbery.

Thorstein Veblen

A protective tariff is a typical conspiracy in restraint of trade.

Vijay Mallya

If you want India to lower tariffs and facilitate more free trade, then I think Indian producers also have a right to enter the European market.

Rick Santorum

We shouldn't be putting tariffs on anything. That hurts working men and women in US. What we should be doing is making our manufacturing more competitive.

Ezra Cornell

I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I favored a protective tariff.

Milton Friedman

Thanks to economists, all of us, from the days of Adam Smith and before right down to the present, tariffs are perhaps one tenth of one percent lower than they otherwise would have been. … “And because of our efforts, we have earned our salaries ten-thousand fold.

Jay Jacobs

We've asked the facilities division to give us some information, what they think is reasonable that we could expect this to cost.

Paul Johnston

We've apparently struck a reasonable middle ground and will continue to try to meet the needs of all the authorized purposes.

John Paquette

We've always said part of the reason for the repeat matches is for television.

Terry Lickona

We've always known there was a reason to keep all these original masters. We've never erased a single tape from any show we've ever done. We've just about run out of space to store these tapes, but they've turned out be gems. We're proud of these old shows and we think they deserve to be seen by new generations of fans and people that have been fans all along.

Rivers Cuomo

When we were putting the album together and finishing up the artwork, I didn't know what was going to happen in the future, and I told everyone that. I told them, 'Let's commit to this year, and see what happens,' ... And that was one of the reasons why I put that quote in there, because I thought it's a really nice way to say goodbye, if it is a goodbye.

Edmund White

When I was a child, I loved 'The Marble Faun' by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The reason I liked it was because it had a beautiful binding. When you're a kid, you like books because they're pretty to look at, and this one had a white calfskin cover and gold edges. That was enough to make me love it.

Flip Saunders

Tony is a high-energy guy, and that's one of the reasons that when he became available, he was somebody we really wanted to look at. We thought he gave us a different dimension from what we had on the roster.

John Pickett

Tomorrow we've got a big labor number coming out and that may give someone a reason to get back in the market or to continue to get out.

Dennis Gartman

We remain fundamentally bullish on gold . . . for the very simple reason that there is growing disdain for currencies generally.

Steve Struss

When we were in the jury room, there were tears shed. It was a difficult process to stand in judgment of someone else.

Bill Lovette

We're making this investment to help meet continued, strong demand for refrigerated and pre-cooked bacon. The project is another example of the technology and food safety improvements we've initiated to position our processed meats business for future growth. For example, we've invested almost $15 million in our deli meats plant in Buffalo, N.Y., over the past two years.

Doug Conaway

We're making an effort here to contain the fire. We've seen it from a couple of different places but we don't know the extent of it. The teams are in the process now of trying to fight that fire and get it under control.

Paul Kantner

We're sort of too old to die young now, ... so you have to sort of carry (it) off with what you've got. And you're surprising yourself still. I think that's part of the process is the surprises.

Craig Fugate

We're slowing the process down. A large-scale disaster will occur and there will be another hue and cry about why we were not able to get the aid faster.

Bob Reed

We're getting the process started with exploring bonding and meeting with some people who are pointing us in the right direction.

Steve Clarke

We're going to take anyone who walks through the doors. And we have a process to see if they're eligible for (strong narcotic prescriptions) that includes contracts and drug tests. And if they violate those, they're dismissed.

Michael Carliner

We're going to have a lot of additional demand for materials, both in the cleanup process and the repair process and going forward in rebuilding.

David Morrison

What we're seeing here is a laying bare of the political process without the euphemisms, without the sugar-coating. People are recoiling.