John Burns Quotes (53 Quotes)

I'd think that some of them are relying on local management businesses. They'd be private managers, probably not large-scale.

Don't hustle old people.

I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.

Still more important perhaps, is the fact that labour of the humbler kind has shown its capacity to organise itself its solidarity its ability.

God forbid if something were to happen to one of them, it's going to be him washing his hands of the blood, not me. He can go explain to the family why he didn't sign this bill.

For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.

The men who made the war were profuse in their praises of the man who kicked the P.M. out of his office and now degrades by his disloyal, dishonest and lying presence the greatest office in the State.

The stars are aligned for another good year right now. We have a strong economy and very little construction (of new homes). That's a recipe for continued price appreciation.

The Thames is liquid history.

The Gentlemen of England serve under the greatest cad in Europe.

My duty is clear and at all costs will be done.

It's been years since we have seen any unsold inventory like this in Phoenix's new-home market. Too many builders went too far out and built houses that were too expensive.

Those of us who have covered wars here and there over the past 15, 20, 25 years have to struggle to think of anywhere where we've seen such a relentless brutality,

Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand.

This is the timing part. That's about the time those plants are really wanting to grow.

I don't want boys to use their pencils for improper writing.

The recent I.L.P. conference from which I had expected some change in methods and tactics has confirmed my previous views of its leaders.

A blind person can use the machine and receive instructions on an audible track. We will have one of those machines in each precinct. This will allow truly secret ballots.

Every drop of the Thames is liquid 'istory.

Eventually this will save us money by eliminating the old paper ballots. It's always been hard to estimate how many people will vote and plan to have enough ballots printed. That problem should be eliminated. We've had a trash barrel full of ballots left over because we had too many ballots printed and then have a low voter turnout.

I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country.

I believe the proper business of a Municipality is to do for the individual merged in the mass what the individual cannot do so well alone.

I am not ashamed to say that I am the son of a washerwoman.

You can't just buy a piece of junk and rent it out. What investors have to realize is that students are selective and sophisticated, and their parents are sophisticated.

When I have to mount a staircase I climb up step by step. If I want to go up ten stairs at a time I break my neck - and that is not my intention.

I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?

Remember the match girls who won their strike and formed a union take courage from the gas stokers who only a few weeks ago won the eight hour day.

I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.

Mike will be a real asset to our team. Prior to joining ERF Wireless, Mike's career as an entrepreneurial executive in the communications industry includes a number of diverse management experiences that span over 18 years. He has a proven track record in business and government relations in the U.S., Mexico and Europe. He also has experience working with congressional groups, as well as the staff of the FCC, on telecommunications legislation and regulations.

This is a function of those companies seeing an opportunity to get in on the surging housing market. Obviously, the long-term demographics for people in their 50s and 60s play into this. Not everyone wants to live on a golf course in Florida.

Conquering himself, he has learned that he can conquer the world of capital whose generals have been the most ruthless of his oppressors.

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.

I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.

I don't want boys to use bad language.

News conferences that two years ago would have attracted 60, 80 or 100 Western journalists now get 10, 15 or less.

Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.

I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects.

Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.

Voting should go quickly once people learn how to use the touch screen. It's better in a whole lot of ways than printed ballots. An election can be certified in two days. It should also minimize recounts. The old paper ballot machines would sometimes miscount the ballot and sometimes two ballots would go through instead of one. The touch screen will leave a paper audit trail and recover everything each voter does.

My 90-year-old mother has used a similar voting system in Austin, Texas, and she hasn't had a problem in learning how to vote with it.

It's completely clear to me she was insane at the time of the murder, ... She was, frankly, psychotic.

There also will be other significant service and expense reductions, including reductions in staff other than from the (early-retirement plan).

This is the moment they insurgents have fought to avoid these past two years -- power shifting to the Shiite majority.

We will also have paper ballots to help with the transition. We will be fully electronic touch-screen voting in November for the fall general election.

Very, very disappointed with the governor's decision. I am going to contact the senator's office and the assemblyman's office and see if there are enough votes out there to override the veto.

There are going to be year 2000-related disruptions, but not catastrophic outages. But public reaction could be worse than that.

I must firmly adhere to the views I have held and practice, that Socialism to succeed must be practical, tolerant, cohesive and consciously compromising with Progressive forces running, if not so far, in parallel lines towards its own goal.

Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress.

Generating on-site is starting to make more sense.

We need to embrace the changes because it will expand the population of people who can vote.