Presumptively Quotes

#1. Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond [to it].

Alan Blinder

#2. This was because of a special American commitment to the seeming magic of money creation and its presumptively wondrous economic effects. T

John Kenneth Galbraith

#3. Loyalty is a characteristic trait. Those who has it, gives it free of charge.

Ellen J. Barrier

#4. You're only as good as your dumbest competitor.

Gordon Bethune

#5. My experience of what can happen and what actually happens is a world apart, so stop worrying!

Stephen Richards

#6. Every gathering of Americans-whether a few on the porch of a crossroads store or massed thousands in a great stadium-is the possessor of a potentially immeasurable influence on the future.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#7. Almost every country in Africa has now instituted multi-party democracy.

Mo Ibrahim

#8. Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.

James Clerk Maxwell

#9. What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.

Oscar Wilde

#10. You just never set roots; you take pleasure in simple conversations, because you know you're not going to have much more than that. It's very isolating, and that can be a good thing.

Feist

#11. The continued increase in many crime indicators and the fact that the overall crime rate has not seen a marked decrease while the Liberals have been in power is a clear indication that the Liberal approach to combating crime, as on so many other issues, has failed.

Stephen Harper

#12. I wrote an ITV drama in the 1960s, a satire on management theory that starred Leonard Rossiter. I'm also a poet and have had work in the 'Spectator.'

Maurice Flanagan