“In the areas that are critical to our survival, like Defense, Finance and the Ministry of Home Affairs, we look for the best talent. You lose New Orleans, and you have 100 other cities just like it. But we're a city-state. We lose Singapore and there is nothing else. So the standards of discipline are very high. There is a very high degree of accountability in Singapore.”
Kishore Mahbubani
“We stand to gain up to several thousand more jobs at the Defense Finance and Accounting Service center, ... and the commission listened to our recommendations for Crane and saved half of the jobs that were recommended for transfer elsewhere.”
Mitch Daniels
“The bigger bubble is actually in the financing of homes.”
Ed Yardeni
“The bigger bubble is actually in the financing of homes. Mortgage lenders have loosened their lending standards. Rather than telling a lot of would-be buyers, particularly in places like California, that they don't qualify, they're coming up with all sorts of so-called innovative alternative financing.”
“[JERUSALEM, Sept. 22 (Xinhuanet) -- Israeli defense minister Shaul Mofaz on Thursday sharply criticized former finance minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying his plan to move up the date of the Likud party leader elections could destroy the party, local newspaper Haaretz reported on its online edition.] The economic policies of the last few years, brought forth by Benjamin Netanyahu, succeeded in damaging the Likud, ... The poverty, the rift in the party and the blows to the poorer classes - these struck every corner and thousands of voters of the Likud.”
Shaul Mofaz
“The presidency and the cabinet must both take part in running the state, like foreign policy and the finance, defense, interior and oil ministries.”
Jalal Talabani
“We are ready to finance every trip back home.”
Nicolas Sarkozy
