I responded that we needed a private sector to improve the market situation and make peoples lives easier.

In the first day of the Soviet Army's arrival, I and the other comrades were isolated and then found ourselves here, not knowing anything... I can only conjecture what could have happened.

In the economic sphere, the program demanded thorough decentralization and managerial independence of enterprises, as well as legalization of small-scale private enterprise, especially in the service sector.

In the first moments, the members of the Presidium who were with me at the Secretariat were taken to the Party Central Committee under the control of Soviet forces.

Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I'm expecting the worst for myself and I'm resigned to it.

Spring and summer 1942 was probably the worst period of internal terror in Slovakia. It was also the time of mass deportation of Slovak Jews to the extermination camps in Poland.

For us she is not the iron lady. She is the kind, dear Mrs. Thatcher.

I can only say, think of me what you will, I have worked for thirty years in the Party, and my whole family has devoted everything to the affairs of the Party, the affairs of socialism.

After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.

Many legitimate forms of ownership, mainly cooperative and communal, had not been used to any effective extent mainly because of the imposition of Stalinist restrictions.

We shall have to remove everything that strangles artistic and scientific creativeness.

I responded that we needed a private sector to improve the market situation and make peoples lives easier.

There are different ways to do innovation. You can plant a lot of seeds, not be committed to any particular one of them, but just see what grows. And this really isn't how we've approached this. We go mission-first, then focus on the pieces we need and go deep on them and be committed to them.

You hear about things happening to people - they slip in the bathtub, fall down the stairs, step off the curb in London because they think that the cars come the other way - and they die. You feel you want to die making an effort at something; you don't want to die in some unnecessary way.

There's something to be said for CEOs' entering politics: In theory, they have management expertise and financial savvy. Then again, it didn't work so well with Dick Cheney.

Interdependence must be transformed into solidarity based upon the principle that the goods of creation are meant for all. That which human industry produces through the processing of raw materials with the contribution of work must serve equally for the good of all.

And almost every one, when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him, Inclines to think there is a God, Or something very like him.

I want to knock people out.

Every employee can affect your companys brand not just the front line employees that are paid to talk to your customers.

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behaviour, and they are classic excuses.

Why are fish unsustainable? Because they're popular. What makes restaurants work? Popular dishes that people come back for.

Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.

I am in love with girls that are bad and naughty and badass, and a little selfish, but I like to watch from a respectful distance!

A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.

I'm often accused of being ahead of my time, but it's simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

In Chhattisgarh, there is no Narendra Modi factor; people know that he only speaks lies and is desperate to become prime minister.

If I could work with any actor it would have to be Johnny Depp. He is cool.

My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice.

The problem of the food price is structural. The growth of demand cannot be checked in that it is coming from middle income countries demanding more quality and more quantity of food. High demand is here to stay.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

I recognize that I'm human, and the older I get, the more I realize how fallible I am, how fallible we all are.

I just remember watching Federer the first year he won Wimbledon. He was struggling with his back problem. I remember it vividly. It looked like there was a chance he was not going to finish. He had that look in his eye. Then, somehow, he found the wherewithal to dig a little deeper, and suddenly he wins the thing, and he's a different player.

The first Western teacher of English in Japan was a Native American.

Being anxious is the worst feeling in the world.

I don't like Tommy on Broadway at all. I like the music, I'm pleased with Pete's success but I don't like what they've done to it.