#standard

You know, I think of the global economy as an inverted triangle, resting on the shoulders of the American consumer. And if the American consumer cannot have enough disposable income in order to maintain a standard of living that creates more opportunities generation after generation, that's bad for everybody. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#american #american consumer #bad #cannot #consumer

Words are important to me, but a song can work and function and be a good song with words that are fairly standard. But really great lyrics can't rescue a dog of a song. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#fairly #function #good #good song #great

My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#good #guitar #guitar player #guitar playing #high

We fully expect our competitors to join us in embracing open standards with their next redesigns. ↗

— Mike Davidson

#embracing #expect #fully #join #next

For the tiny percentage of people who are negatively affected by our embracing of standards, they can just get their sports somewhere else in the meantime. It's not like we're denying them hospital care. ↗

— Mike Davidson

#care #denying #else #embracing #get

Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#bogart #comes #fame #guy #his

Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey. ↗

— Charles Edison

#devote #foundation #fundamental #fundamental purpose #i

A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology. ↗

— Robert Trout

#basic #characterized #discoveries #factories #generating

Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks. ↗

— Frank Murkowski

#america #global #increases #nations #our

Living standards in both the public and private sector have to be brought down. The private sector has to sell more abroad and consume less at home. The government sector has to get closer to just spending what it can collect in taxes. ↗

— John Redwood

#both #brought #closer #collect #consume