#rin

All the states are required, either by constitution or by statute, to have balanced budgets - they're not able to print money. So they have to focus on establishing priorities. ↗

— Gary Locke

#balanced #budgets #constitution #either #establishing

China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower. ↗

— Gary Locke

#china #compass #economic #gunpowder #history

I consider myself a D.I.Y. home improvement guy. In a prior life, I completely gutted a house - redid the plumbing, wiring, moved sewage pipes, knocked down walls, everything. ↗

— Gary Locke

#consider #down #everything #guy #home

On top of my to-do list in preparing for Beijing is 'On China' by Henry Kissinger, who has had firsthand experience with every top Chinese leader since Mao, so his insights are valuable and his access is perhaps unrivaled. ↗

— Gary Locke

#beijing #china #chinese #every #experience

The growth model China has relied on for the last 30 years - one predicated on low-cost exports to the rest of the world and investment in resource intensive heavy manufacturing - is unlikely to serve it well in the next 30 years. ↗

— Gary Locke

#exports #growth #heavy #intensive #investment

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good. ↗

— John Locke

#dread #evil #forcible #good #human

I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#covering #criminal #i #like #murder

It's not a good thing to be friends with people you're covering. There's just no point in doing it. It's tempting, but they're not going to consider you their friend anyway. They just know that you're somebody that can do something for them. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#anyway #consider #covering #doing #friend

When people are entering a high-stress period, they don't sleep and don't exercise, but in fact, it should be just the opposite. ↗

— Jim Loehr

#exercise #fact #in fact #just #opposite

I am not as scared about people tearing this one up as I would have been in the past because of the basis in 'knowing' this one has. There are people out there that are hungry for this. ↗

— Kenny Loggins

#am #basis #because #been #hungry