No country can be complacent in making sure that excessive debt of the household doesn’t create excesses and weaknesses in the financial system. Everything is interconnected. – Nouriel Roubini
From a viable economy to the full funding of Headstart, from a clean environment to true equality for women, from a strong military to a commitment to racial brotherhood, from schools that are honored to streets free of excessive violence. – Paul Tsongas
I’m not obsessed with the rights of women; it can be a bit excessive. I want to put men and women on an equal footing. I think we are equal but different. – Marion Marechal-Le Pen
When I was 13 or 14, my parents had a bit of a windfall so bought a lovely new kitchen, but I burnt it down. I was making cheese on toast when flames escaped from the grill. My father stopped the fire with blind panic and excessive water. I was forgiven, but it put me off cooking for years. – Erin O’Connor
Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth. – Edmund Phelps
Spermaceti oil is valued for its high resistance to heat, and thus it is used in machinery where there is excessive heat. – Paul Watson
Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems. – Fredrik Bajer
Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves – such is the stuff of short-selling. – Gary Weiss
In principle, junk bonds are basically useful, but they are used excessively and irrationally, notably in takeovers. – Maurice Allais
For the fiction students I teach, one of the most common mistakes is to start in the wrong place. Often the actual story doesn’t begin until about a third of the way into their narratives. They start off instead with excessive scene-setting, metaphysical speculation, introducing nonessential dramatis personae, throat-clearing, etc. – Darin Strauss
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune. – Plato
For me, there will be no enemies but unemployment, the deficit, excessive debt, economic stagnation and anything else that keeps our country in these critical circumstances. – Mariano Rajoy
Too often, governments are quick to use excessive force and even pervert the course of justice to keep oil and gas flowing, forests logged, wild rivers dammed and minerals extracted. As the Global Witness study reveals, citizens are often killed, too – especially if they’re poor and indigenous. – David Suzuki
If we didn’t have greed, market economies wouldn’t be as innovative as they are. But in my view, greed has to be contained by the fear of losses, so there has to be a system where, if you take too much risk, you go into bankruptcy. You don’t systematically bail out people who take excessive risks. – Nouriel Roubini
I think it’s true that the 1 Percent or the elite are living in a world of, maybe, excessive privilege, and they don’t fully realize how much pain and suffering, how much anxiety exists out there. – Nouriel Roubini
I don’t need the fillers, additives, excessive amounts of sugars, fats, salts and other measures taken to taint the natural goodness of real food. – Mark Hyman
I think Mr. Obama is a disaster for business and a disaster for the United States. Not that Mr. Romney would be much better, but the Republicans understand the problem of excessive debt better than Mr. Obama, who basically doesn’t care about piling up debt. – Marc Faber
Many of us enjoy going to ball games and watching them on television. I am no exception. I love to watch a good athletic contest. If we spend excessive time with sporting events, however, we may neglect things that are much more important. – Joseph B. Wirthlin
America is a center right government, center right people. They want government but they don’t want it to be excessive. They want it to be affordable. And most importantly what Americans want is to pass on to their next generation their children a country that’s better, stronger and more vibrant and more prosperous. – Judd Gregg
Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food. – Kate Smith
If the United States is to protect itself from the economic and the political threats created by this excessive dependence, we must reduce our reliance on foreign energy sources and on foreign oil as quickly and as efficiently as possible. – John Shadegg
The desire to be the object of public attention is weak, but the excessive dread of it is but a form of vanity and over-self-contemplativeness. – Sara Coleridge
The monarchy is foremost a business, and it’s important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless ‘royal’ family. I find it very sad. – Morrissey
I am a Republican because of my military background, my pro-life beliefs, my support for the Second Amendment, and my belief that government should not grow excessively. – John Shimkus
Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility. – Karl Abraham
In its first 30 years of existence, up to the mid 1970s, the practical applications of game theory were very limited, probably as a result of excessive preoccupation by game theorists with cooperative solution concepts. – John Harsanyi