Price Gouging Quotes

#1. With various people complaining about "price gouging? ... economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: "Tax gouging." But government is never accused of either "greed" or "gouging" ? not even when they bulldoze people's homes in order to turn.

Thomas Sowell

#2. If you look closely at the price-gouging debate, you'll notice that the arguments for and against price-gouging laws revolve around three ideas: maximizing welfare, respecting freedom, and promoting virtue.

Michael J. Sandel

#3. First of all, I'm in favor of making price gouging a crime, and in fact, one the reasons I didn't vote for the Republican House version was because there were too many breaks for the oil companies.

Marty Meehan

#4. The greatest gift of leadership is a boss who wants you to be successful.

Jon Taffer

#5. Purity of heart means the control of the imagination and the rigorous care of the affections.

F.B. Meyer

#6. Many people are trying to steady themselves by taking tranquilizers. Jesus is the greatest tranquilizer of all. He can straighten out your life and put you back on center.

Billy Graham

#7. We know that Diana Vishneva is a phenomenon of strength and style, and she certainly has earned the right to stretch her talents as best she can.

Robert Gottlieb

#8. Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

Bryant H. McGill

#9. I learned by standing in the wings and watching established acts on stage.

Shirley Bassey

#10. Elegance of language must give way before simplicity in preaching sound doctrine.

Girolamo Savonarola

#11. It's hard to be afraid of a man who is sitting watching you put on hand lotion.

Margaret Atwood

#12. Effective as perspective is ... it becomes a deadening influence on an artist's natural way of seeing things once it is accepted as a system - as a mechanical formula.

Graham Collier

#13. Stop worrying about tomorrow. Stop thinking about yesterday. Mindfulness is to be here now, in the moment. Focus on this moment.

Frederick Lenz

#14. I'd read about Los Angeles and this fact stuck in my mind: that the city gained 1,000 new people every day. In 1956! A thousand people every day! I felt: 'I want to be part of that.'

Edward Ruscha

#15. It's not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done.

Mitch Albom