#capital

This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it. ↗

— Al Capone

#americanism #both #call #capitalism #each

Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

#capitalism #stupid #system

We pledge to fight the dark forces high in the counsels of the Republican Party which have made political capital out of the techniques of character assassination by innuendo. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#capital #character #character assassination #counsels #dark

Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas. ↗

— Harvey S. Firestone

#business #capital #experience #get #ideas

I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#capital #come #doing #dysfunctional #elected

If there's a silver bullet in the battle to recapture Albany, it is the re-engagement of our citizens. This capital has become a physical metaphor for the isolation and alienation of our people. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#alienation #battle #become #bullet #capital

Barack Obama won a second term but no mandate. Thanks in part to his own small-bore and brutish campaign, victory guarantees the president nothing more than the headache of building consensus in a gridlocked capital on behalf of a polarized public. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#barack obama #behalf #brutish #building #campaign

Some of us claim that New York City is the capital of the country, indeed the capital of the world. Now, that may be a bit much for those who don't come from New York, but clearly we are an important city for reasons of our cultural advantages. ↗

— David Dinkins

#bit #capital #city #claim #clearly

If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than his secretary's. In fact a very small percentage of people in this country pay a big chunk of the taxes. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#capital #capital gains #chunk #country #fact

We will rebuild, renew and remain the capital of the free world. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#free #free world #rebuild #remain #renew