We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step.
Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
I have three adult children, and I have four grandchildren. I want to stop the deficits. I want to make sure that we're not passing on to my children and my grandchildren deficits and that we cannot repay and that they will have to repay and maybe they won't be able to repay them.
According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background.
There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
One of the most effective tools in Brazil's efforts to eradicate slavery is a register compiled by the government that lists individuals and businesses found using slave labor. Those on the 'dirty list,' as the register is known, are fined and remain on it for a minimum of two years during which they cannot access public funds.
You cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none.
We cannot really communicate with our fans.
I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.
If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.
Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.
Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own.
We cannot run a democracy without a strong middle class.
It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.
We cannot hope to effectively counter extremism if we just focus on schools, universities and prisons: we need to take this online as well.
Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.
Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.
Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of significant legislation; it was designed for deficit reduction.
Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest man to do.
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It's impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.
You cannot find one single verse in the New Testament that calls for violence against non-believers. Jesus said to love your enemies. Muhammad said to butcher your enemies.
Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot afford.
We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.
Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients.
Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.
Private enterprise cannot rebuild the nation's infrastructure or keep our research institutions vibrant. Government must do what only it can do.
But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.
With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.
The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.
You cannot change strategy due to a trend.
I've always hated superheroes. I cannot stand them. I love Norse mythology, but I hate superheroes. They ruined movies, then comics, and now games.
In fashion, there's huge pressure to produce results in no time. But you cannot guarantee numbers, because fashion gravitates around desire.
