#trade

Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy? ↗

— Joichi Ito

#cash #check #companies #consolidation #continuing

There's a lot of exaggerated talk about CAFTA, but it's actually a fairly routine trade agreement. Although it involves fairly small nations, they're still more important trade partners than places like Australia or many other larger nations. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#actually #agreement #all nations #although #australia

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour? ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#congress #errs #everything #fifty #hour

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#expense #first #forehead #generals #good

I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs. ↗

— Gary Johnson

#afghanistan #angry #been #cap #decision

In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades. ↗

— Florence Kelley

#contributes #economic #garment #hand #other

The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, that there can not be two standards of work and wages for any trade without constant menace to the higher standard. ↗

— Florence Kelley

#constant #field #higher #higher standard #industry

I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#bills #buffalo #i #learned #market

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade. ↗

— John Ruskin

#cannot #exchanging #live #men #producing

All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have. ↗

— Arthur Scargill

#economic strength #indeed #miners #often #other