#measures

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#always #fulfilment #held #imperfect #instruments

Canada is in budgetary deficit now only because of the recession, only because of stimulus measures, and we will come out of it. We will go back into surplus position when the economy recovers. So there is no need in Canada to raise taxes. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#because #budgetary #canada #come #deficit

Some members of both Houses have, it is true, been removed from their employments under the Crown; but were they ever told, either by me or by any other of his majesty's servants, that it was for opposing the measures of the administration in Parliament? ↗

— Robert Walpole

#any #been #both #crown #either

Desperate affairs require desperate measures. ↗

— Horatio Nelson

#desperate #measures #require

Airport security is a particular bugbear. At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man, while I can see that averting terrorism is manifestly important, the measures taken seem, simultaneously, absurd. ↗

— James Purefoy

#airport #grumpy #i #i can #important

As I detail in my new book: 'Hard Measures, How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives,' there are many myths surrounding the detention of a relatively small number of top terrorists at CIA-run 'black sites' from 2002 until they were sent to Guantanamo Bay in 2006. ↗

— Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.

#after #aggressive #american #american lives #bay

It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform measures you should follow and in what sequence. ↗

— Vaclav Klaus

#develop #follow #just #makes #measures

I am against preventive war because it means measures by the UN against us. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

#am #because #i #i am #means

The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures its morals. ↗

— Jimmy Swaggart

#measures #minister #morals #nation #really

We shouldn't any of us be afraid of teaching protective measures to save lives. ↗

— Kyan Douglas

#any #lives #measures #protective #save