De Facto Government Quotes

#1. The United States will continue to be number one, and I do not see any country or group of countries taking the United States' place in providing global public goods that underpin security and prosperity. The United States functions as the world's de facto government.

Michael Mandelbaum

#2. She didn't want me; she wanted all of me. I didn't mind saying it. My girlfriend scared the crap out of me.

T.J. Forrester

#3. For me, Spotify is not even a necessary evil. It helps me do what I want to do.

Ed Sheeran

#4. Mullets and questionably tight pants aside, the best music in the world was '80s rock, and I had no qualms about admitting it. I didn't want music that was maudlin and depressing - I wanted music that put me in a good mood and made the world look a little bit brighter.

L. H. Cosway

#5. I'm shooting for longevity. The road is hard on your body.

Horace Silver

#6. The main mark of modern governments is that we do not know who governs, de facto any more than de jure. We see the politician and not his backer; still less the backer of the backer; or, what is most important of all, the banker of the backer.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#7. The Eagle, he was lord above

William Wordsworth

#8. Listen twice. Think Once. If a muthafucka shows you their flaw, believe 'em. That goes for family, too." Promise's

Zoya

#9. I put together an iPhone app called TrimIt and released that in July 2011. About a month later, the private fund of the Hong Kong billionaire Li-Kashing cold emailed me and expressed an interest to invest, but they didn't realize I was 15. They thought it was a U.K. company with a team.

Nick D'Aloisio

#10. Is thyselves even a word?

Emma Harrison

#11. How many days was I like that? Pretending to listen, but not hearing a word? Pretending to care when I hated it all? Pretending to live when I was dying inside?

Lisa Schroeder

#12. The United States recognizes the provisional government as the de facto authority of the new State of Israel.

Harry S. Truman

#13. So, you know, if, if I wanted to get up and just play golf one day, I would just get up and play golf. If I wanted to go to Vegas, I would just get up and go to Vegas.

Michael Phelps

#14. This is a government takeover of our healthcare system. It is the government basically running the entire healthcare system, turning large insurers into de facto public utilities, depriving people of choice, depriving people of options, raising people's prices, raising taxes when we need new jobs.

Paul Ryan

#15. If a woman-in-a-man's body goes after a man, is she attracted to the same or the opposite sex? If a man-in-a -woman's body wants a woman, is he a lesbian or straight? Prejudice is only cowardice in the face of complexity.

Jay Lemke