Quotes About Intervention

There is no pure free-market economy.

One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection.

We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.

Frankly, alcohol leads to a lot of other things when you start drinking at 12-years old. It is a big problem that needs to be addressed. Frankly, the industry has pushed us back and pushed us back.

When we say that prayer puts God to work, it is simply to say that man has it in his power by prayer to move God to work in His own way among men, in which way He would not work if prayer was not made.

I know how irritating it is when a producer puts his hand in everything.

Having served in the military, I know that militaries can stop a problem, but they can't fix a problem.

Many a bum show has been saved by the flag.

The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before.

For healthy adult people, the really big thing we can foresee are ways of intervening in the ageing process, either by slowing or reversing it.

We no longer have a free market in the United States, we have a government controlled free market.

It was a way of hers always to want to spring into any fray in which someone was made uncomfortable or unhappy.

THE PRAYERS REACHED to Heaven from Ashton, from Bacon's Corner, and everywhere in between, and it was as if the Lord God was waiting for just this moment, just this particular cry from His people. He began to move His sovereign hand.

It is said of Muad'Dib that once when he saw a weed trying to grow between two rocks, he moved one of the rocks. Later, when the weed was seen to be flourishing, he covered it with the remaining rock. "That was its fate," he explained.

To save one from a mistake is a gift of paradise

The thing about computers—it's like training a dog. You have to be smarter than the dog. If you make a computer smarter than you are, that has to be accident, synergy, or divine intervention.

Ho! You ask after my faith. Well, now—I believe that something cannot emerge from nothing without divine intervention.

What is it you really want to know, Siona? What you believe! Ho! You ask after my faith. Well, now-I believe that something cannot emerge from nothing without divine intervention.

You don't get it son. This isn't a mudhole, it's an operating table and I am the surgeon. -Batman

He said he'd like to help the chief financial officer himself, because he was a good and honest man, but he didn't know how to go about it, and he could only hope that influential people would intervene in his behalf. He thought that would surely happen and that things would turn out well, but for the moment, as he gathered form the chief financial officer's mood, things didn't look at all good.

I realize the answer is not to create wilderness and walk away.

The war on drugs - a big-government product if there ever was one - has been wildly unsuccessful, by any metric.

The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did not sit around and conspire to allow genocide to happen.

Even Milton Friedman - doyen of radical free market thought - was willing to consider some government intervention into primary education on the grounds that it is unfair for children to not get a chance in life because they were born to poor parents.