If we are really serious about preventing another crisis like the 2008 meltdown, we should simply ban complex financial instruments unless they can be unambiguously shown to benefit society in the long run.
The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.
In the long run, curiosity-driven research just works better... Real breakthroughs come from people focusing on what they're excited about.
When I left SEIU, we had started this quality public service agenda to say to our members what I think the United Auto Workers learned: that quality is our only job security in the long run.
In the long run, you make your own luck - good, bad, or indifferent.
An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
I don't know how it would play out it the long run, if I were go to series with the story, I don't know. I just miss Peter so much on a personal level, that's about what I can say. He's my buddy and I wish he were around.
I think because I am a proven rookie that it is going to help me in the long run.
It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.
In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.
Frankly, it is clear that we would be better off in the long run without federal funding, and the challenge right now is that if we lost it altogether, we would have a lot of stations go dark.
It's absolutely absurd to even consider voting on Sunday alcohol sales. I am opposed to alcohol period. It doesn't do anybody any good in the long run. It's a dangerous drug.
There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.
Really, what matters in the long run is sticking with things and working daily to get better at them.
There are times when a falsehood well told bridges over quite a difficulty, but in the long run, you had better tell the truth, even if you swim the creek.
In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.
Be sure to read a recipe all the way through before you cook. The time it saves you in the long run is invaluable.
I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
I have always thought that the rapid economic development of South Africa would in the long run prove to be incompatible with the government's racial policies, and recent events have tended to confirm my opinion.
Flash is one of those very useful, very closed, very proprietary non-weblike things that has great tools and serves a need very well. But in the long run, we see video as part of the web, and it should be handled just the way other html elements are.
We expect to be a prime in the fighter jet business for the long run. This is not a business we're getting out of at all.
In the long run, there are people who've made more money or had bigger stardom at points. But, I think I'll have come out winning.
An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs.
In science, you can say things that seem crazy, but in the long run, they can turn out to be right. We can get really good evidence, and in the end, the community will come around.
People understand we're on the doorstep of doing something really historic that will help the American people and strengthen our country for the long run.
I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run.
All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.
It turned out in the long run that Lincoln's credit and the popular confidence that supported it were as valuable both to his creditors and himself as if the sums which stood over his signature had been gold coin in a solvent bank.
I believe that if each one of us have successful solo careers, it can only help the group's growth. It will allow the fans to see individual talent and make them appreciate us more. After all, we are in this for the long run and have every intention of returning with another album as Aventura.
Pension reform can be hard to talk about. In the long run, reform now means fewer demands for layoffs and less draconian measures in the future. It's in the best interest of all Californians to fix this system now.
