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Tobacco companies are legally operating entities in Australia. If the Government thinks that they should not make donations to political parties, well then they should ban them operating as legally structured entities in Australia. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#ban #companies #donations #entities #government

When the Australian Government looked at how to meet the challenges, and the opportunities, presented by our ageing population, it saw that an all-encompassing approach was a prerequisite. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#approach #australian #challenges #government #how

Here is my general approach to the energy companies. You have already charged the utilities a 50 percent credit penalty for the power they were buying from you. You're charging us a penalty. You're not going to get two bites of the apple here. ↗

— Gray Davis

#apple #approach #bites #buying #charged

Well, there's no question that the law passed in 1996 was flawed. It deregulated the wholesale market, meaning the price that the utilities had to pay energy companies for power, but not the retail market. ↗

— Gray Davis

#deregulated #energy #energy companies #flawed #had

We have one of the few societies, the only one I can think of right offhand, where your health care is so tied to your job, so that when an American company has to hire, they have to think about health care. ↗

— Tim Bishop

#american #care #company #few #health

All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#binding #cease #come #conflict #existence

All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities for life. Change is the one constant in human history. ↗

— Wade Davis

#change #constant #constantly #cultures #dance

One of the difficulties of not knowing for so long whether we were doing a fifth season or not was that we weren't really allowed to go out shopping for work. ↗

— Claudia Black

#difficulties #doing #fifth #go #knowing

We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification. ↗

— Cofer Black

#authorities #communicated #covert #law #memorandum

For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#appeals #blood #class #common #common language