“The concerns expressed in the draft recommendation are based on the wrong premise. The Commission's assessment and the Broad Economic Policy Guidelines advises Ireland to seek to achieve economic stability. This is exactly what the Irish government has sought to do in the budget in a number of ways,”
Charlie McCreevy
“We're not going into this with the premise that China is wrong. We're going into this with the premise ... that China's leaders are moving China in a direction that's going to be ultimately good for them and the world but that these are things they have to do to succeed.”
Mike Green
“One of the premises of free market capitalism as an institution, as wrong headed as it might be, is people have perfect knowledge.”
Craig Dunn
“The underlying premise of why we're seeing all of these warnings is a slowing economic cycle. The analysts didn't foresee that growth would slow down as much as they thought.”
Joe Cooper
“Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.”
Walter Lang
“I don't work with high-concept things that start with a premise, "Wouldn't it be funny if there was this spy who met a... " For me, it could be, "What about people who sell shoes? That must be a bizarre world... when they meet at conventions and talk about shoes."”
Christopher Guest
“In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.”
David Horowitz
