Government Sponsored Enterprises

Famous quotes containing the words government, sponsored and/or enterprises:

    “To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.”
    —Thomas Paine (1737–1809)

    “The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.”
    —Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940)

    “The personal touch between the people and the man to whom they temporarily delegated power of course conduces to a better understanding between them. Moreover, I ought not to omit to mention as a useful result of my journeying that I am to visit a great many expositions and fairs, and that the curiosity to see the President will certainly increase the box receipts and tend to rescue many commendable enterprises from financial disaster.”
    —William Howard Taft (1857–1930)