Jim Flaherty Quotes

#1. I don't know if for sure in absolute terms if Jim Flaherty is the best Finance Minster in the world, but I am sure that he is the best Finance Minster per inch in the world.

Stephen Harper

#2. If I were to say at any point that I feel really confident or really in control, that would be a mistake. Because I don't. I always see where I didn't do things the right way.

Vera Wang

#3. Everyone wants instant gratification: you have to have everything your parents had right away.

Jim Flaherty

#4. I am a pretty tough guy. I'm an old hockey player.

Jim Flaherty

#5. A popular Harvard business professor urged his students to read the obituaries in the New York Times before they read anything else, in order to learn from the lives of great men.

Georges F. Doriot

#6. Men wrestle with the things they cannot change, and they ignore those that might bend to some economy of effort.

Hugh Howey

#7. I'm on Twitter a lot of the day because I really like Twitter. It's great for jokes. But when I'm writing, I can't do anything else. I can't even listen to music. I just have to write, and then I can do something else. I can't multitask.

Mallory Ortberg

#8. When God-given, heaven-sent revival does come, it will undo in weeks the damage that blasphemous Modernism has taken years to build.

Leonard Ravenhill

#9. It's more frugal to wear ties that are given to you.

Jim Flaherty

#10. I'm still a fiscal conservative, and I'm inclined to pay down debt.

Jim Flaherty

#11. I still have my teeth. I don't want to lose them at age 61 in some hockey game.

Jim Flaherty

#12. I'm a kid that went to theater school. I thought I was going to be making my living doing plays regionally or in New York or on Broadway, and maybe if I got lucky I would do a movie here or there.

Matt Bomer

#13. The thoughts just before the event are like the fortune in the cookie. The fortune's as random as the thought.

Adam Ross

#14. There are some terrorist organizations, there are some organized crime organizations, that launder money through charities and make donations to charities. That's not the purpose of charitable donations in Canada, so we're becoming increasingly strict on the subject.

Jim Flaherty

#15. A man must be disposed to judge of emancipation by other tests than whether it has increased the produce of sugar, - and to hate slavery for other reasons than because it starves men and whips women, - before he is ready to lay the first stone of his anti-slavery life.

Frederick Douglass

#16. American critics of welfare statism are often surprised to learn that countries like West Germany, with a much more comprehensive welfare state and a statistically larger public sector, have fewer government employees per capita than the United States does.

Robert Kuttner

#17. Public service is good for you,

Jim Flaherty

#18. We're always flexible and pragmatic ... It's always important to watch the unemployment rate and to make sure that we can keep most Canadians working. We were successful in that back in 2008-09.

Jim Flaherty