Comptroller Quotes

#1. The comptroller of New York City ought to have all the characteristics of a major corporation's CFO - quiet rigor, obsessive care for detail, incorruptible judgment, an ability to work assiduously behind the scenes with the key stakeholders.

Tina Brown

#2. First, the year 2004, the year past, the Comptroller General of the United States, David A. Walker, said that arguably it was the worst year in American fiscal history, clearly setting our Nation on an unsustainable path.

Jim Cooper

#3. I have had the privilege of serving as city comptroller, and I lead 750 professionals in the office, have appointed eight deputy comptrollers ... no one has criticized my management of these 750 professionals.

John Liu

#4. I don't fight. I don't believe in it.

Avril Lavigne

#5. A photograph is not merely a substitute for a glance. It is a sharpened vision. It is the revelation of new and important facts.

Sid Grossman

#6. Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant.

Desmond Tutu

#7. It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.

Herbert Samuel

#8. When the average Social Security benefit is $1328 a month, and more than one-third of our senior citizens rely on Social Security for Virtually all of their income, our job is to expand benefits, not cut them.

Bernie Sanders

#9. The creator of Sir John Falstaff, of Hamlet, and of Rosalind also makes me wish I could be more myself. But that, as I argue throughout this book, is why we should read, and why we should read only the best of what has been written.

Harold Bloom

#10. Have your cake and eat it ... there's no other reason to have a cake

Derren Brown

#11. Death is the fairest thing in the world. No one's ever gotten out of it. The earth takes everyone - the kind, the cruel, the sinners. Aside from that, there's no fairness on earth.

Svetlana Alexievich

#12. I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.

John Grisham

#13. It's always nice to be able to show your friends and family what it is that you do. I've had their support from the beginning and wouldn't be here without it, so yeah, I do whatever I can to be there with them when they go to see it.

Shawn Roberts

#14. Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination they might once have possessed.

Paul Karl Feyerabend

#15. Reality TV has taken over.

Julian Ovenden

#16. If you want to change a person, you've got to change the situation.

Philip Zimbardo

#17. The only thing I'm allergic to is criticism.

David Lee Roth