#executive

And obviously, with hindsight now, now knowing what went on in the company, it would have been absolutely appropriate back then for us to have the chief executive of the company, most senior person in the United Kingdom, come and answer for the policy they were pursuing. And we ducked that, and frankly that's a failure of Parliament. ↗

— Tom A. Watson

#answer #appropriate #back #been #chief

If you think of movie studio executives, say, as society, then I root for the independent producers. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#i #independent #movie #producers #root

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#authors #best #churches #colleges #common

I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second. ↗

— Steven Wright

#executive #i #only #saw #second

The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#executive #free #legislative #lost #nominated

My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#been #decisions #executive #fall #happiest

The ultimate test of a finished account executive is his ability to write a sound marketing plan. ↗

— Morris Hite

#account #executive #finished #his #marketing

The Independent or Congregational theory includes two principles; first, that the governing and executive power in the Church is in the brotherhood; and secondly, that the Church organization is complete in each worshipping assembly, which is independent of every other. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#brotherhood #church #complete #each #every

February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast during World War II. ↗

— Xavier Becerra

#coast #during #exclusion #executive #february

The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong! ↗

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#allows #behind #cape #closed #committee