#mic

Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs. ↗

— Michael Badnarik

#caused #crimes #criminals #enter #gang

It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like - you remember the honor guards, only it was a dishonor guard. ↗

— Jim Bakker

#dishonor #dripping #felt #guard #guards

The realization of a sustainable economic development strategy for Maine's Native American communities has always been a priority and a critical element of my administration's overall economic development strategy. ↗

— John Baldacci

#always #american #been #communities #critical

Everything we get, outside of the free gifts of nature, must in some way be paid for. The world is full of so- called economists who in turn are full of schemes for getting something for nothing. They tell us that the government can spend and spend without taxing at all; that it can continue to pile up debt without ever paying it off, because "we owe it to ourselves. ↗

— Henry Hazlitt

#economics #free #krugman #schemes #nature

I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft. ↗

— Steve Ballmer

#anyone #break #break up #i #i think

The guy thought he was Mick Jagger. I felt bad for him. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#humor #mick-jagger #beauty

What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?' ↗

— Steve Ballmer

#caused #gone #last #microsoft #people

To be a mass tourist, for me,...is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable as it is painful: As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#economics

I think the NBA will certainly survive without Michael Jordan. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#i #i think #jordan #michael #michael jordan

No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#arab #cetera #challenges #critical #east