#functioning

We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy, with lower equity prices, further downward pressure on home values, and less access to credit for companies and households. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#bear #broader #brought #companies #consequences

People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level. ↗

— Marcy Kaptur

#day #deserve #economy #essential #every

Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority. ↗

— Barber Conable

#democracy #fathers #founding #founding fathers #functioning

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids? ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#children #education #expect #functioning #god

I'm the son of highly functioning parents who I'm incredibly lucky to have. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#highly #i #incredibly #lucky #parents

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning. ↗

— William Burroughs

#function #functioning #happiness #happy #simply

A functioning police state needs no police. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#needs #police #police state #state

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#always #any #creative #first #functioning

Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#adversary #assure #courthouse #does #doors

Milosevic will never stop, because he is fighting for personal power in Serbia. The only way to stop him is cutting the functioning of his war machine. He is spending $1.7 million a day on his war machine in Kosovo. ↗

— Fatos Nano

#cutting #day #fighting #functioning #him