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Quotes About Proposals

I've developed several serious policy proposals to create jobs, reform Washington and reduce spending.
~ Deb Fischer
When President Obama first unveiled his gun control proposals recommending a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and better background checks, there seemed to be momentum behind the effort. But then the proposals ran into a wall.
~ Robert Dallek
There's been a lot of wedding songs and proposals. It's cool because when they play it at weddings so, it means a lot to them. That's a big deal. They're always going to remember 'Head Over Boots' as played at their wedding.
~ Jon Pardi
I think the idea of trying to demonize Governor Romney's going to backfire. Their attempts so far have failed pretty outstandingly and I think at the end of the day, people are going to say, 'what was Obama's record?' Governor Romney's got pro-growth Reaganesque proposals on the table.
~ Steve Forbes
She was listening to his proposals and continually refusing them with shakes of the head and that temptress's laughter which is peculiar to a voluptuous blonde.
~ Émile Zola
To make sure that X only works on the most promising ideas, the company has a "Rapid Evaluation" team that processes proposals, vets ideas, and promotes only those that seem achievable. This team, which consists of a combination of senior managers and inventors, first runs a pre-mortem, trying to come up with as many reasons as possible why the idea could fail.50 "Rapid Eval," as the team is known, considers the problem's scale, feasibility, and technological risks.
~ Amy C. Edmondson
When Western politicians propose blanket discrimination against Islam, they bolster the terrorists' propaganda.
~ David Petraeus
I've focused on making sure we have talented teachers and principals in our schools through proposals like the GREAT Teachers and Principals Act and the Presidential Teachers Corps.
~ Michael Bennet
All flat-tax proposals benefit the rich more than the poor for one simple reason: today's tax code is still at least moderately progressive. The rich usually pay a higher percentage of their incomes in income taxes than do the poor. A flat tax would eliminate that slight progressivity.
~ Robert B. Reich
It is a rare company where the head of a line unit—an operating division—will offer the CEO a dramatic proposal for transforming (or eliminating) his own organization. I never had a line of executives outside my office anywhere I worked who were there on their own initiative to tell me what was wrong with their outfit and how they intended to fix it. I am confident the same is true of most CEOs. Leaders have to understand that a bureaucracy is incapable of reforming itself.
~ Robert M. Gates
Questo pianeta ha, o meglio aveva, un fondamentale problema: la maggior parte dei suoi abitanti erano infatti afflitti da una quasi costante infelicità. Per risolvere il problema di questa infelicità furono suggerite varie proposte, ma queste per lo più concernevano lo scambio continuo di pezzetti di carta verde, un fatto indubbiamente strano, visto che ad essere infelici non erano i pezzetti di carta verde, ma gli abitanti del pianeta.
~ Adams Douglas
Michelle and I don't want anyone telling us who our family's doctor should be - and no one should decide that for you either. Under our proposals, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. If you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance. Period, end of story.
~ Barack Obama
I get marriage proposals, maybe one a week. Women do flirt, yes. They just want someone from the telly. They come and talk to you, and I guess baking is more attractive, and so they feel they have something in common with me. But I'm just a man from Liverpool. I enjoy what I do, and if that gets people baking, then even better.
~ Paul Hollywood
He hoped the experiment would indeed succeed today. The next Gray Council was coming up soon, and he and Adikor would have to explain again what they were giving back to the community through their work. Scientists usually got their proposals approved—everyone could clearly see how science had bettered their lives—but, still, it was always more satisfying to report positive results.
~ Robert J. Sawyer
Certain it is that Socrates makes very radical proposals of "reform" without encountering serious resistance. But there are also a few indications in the Republic to the effect that the longed-for reformation is not likely to succeed on the political plane or that the only possible reformation is that of the individual man.
~ Leo Strauss
He said he wanted to present an alternative; that it might be easier for whites to accept Martin's proposals after hearing him (Malcolm X).
~ Alex Haley
Verizon Communications' general counsel Randal Milch in a blog, while applauding proposals to end Section 215 (of the PATRIOT Act) bulk collection, argued that "the reformed collection process should not require companies to store data for longer than, or in formats that differ from, what they already do for business purposes.
~ Jim Marrs
With these kinds of proposals, the devil is in the details. We're going to examine this realignment closely. We will fight any measure that compromises our needs - now or in the future.
~ John B. Larson
What I see is that the Democratic Party takes working class communities for granted, they take people of color for granted, and they just assume that we're going to turn out no matter how bland or half-stepping these proposals are.
~ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
As a television producer, you do a lot of writing - drafting proposals for pilot shows and other things, so yes, a good deal of writing was involved.
~ Simon Toyne
I had proposals from England, but I believe they would have had to adapt to my style.
~ Mario Mandzukic
Having practical proposals that improve people's economic lives is where it's all about in Ohio, and that's what we're focused on.
~ Richard Cordray
The Democrats have no actual policy proposals of their own unless constant carping counts as a policy.
~ Ann Coulter
When an enlightened ruler controls his ministers, he makes it so that ministers cannot get credit for achievements gained by overstepping the bounds of their offices or make proposals and then fail to match them with actual achievements.
~ Han Fei