#pa

We've outpaced Japan and Europe in creating new jobs, but there's major competition from India and China. It's not enough to make income tax cuts permanent. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#competition #creating #cuts #enough #europe

For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and the extremists on both sides are unreasonable. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#believing #both #both sides #extremists #friendly

I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#decided #democracy #fixing #i #japan

Money creates a power relationship between the payer and the payee. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#creates #money #payer #power #relationship

Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#along #creative #creative work #creativity #future

Upholding human rights is not merely compatible with fighting terrorism, it is essential. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#essential #fighting #human #human rights #merely

We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#because #build #communism #democracy #discussed

It's difficult to do something radically new, unless you are at the heart of a company. ↗

— Jonathan Ive

#difficult #heart #new #radically #something

How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked. ↗

— Burl Ives

#benjamin #benjamin franklin #franklin #had #how

They tend to come out a colour called 'Pants left in wash' ↗

— Eddie Izzard

#colour #come #left #out #pants