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The millions of tourists and businessmen that come in every year do not undergo even remotely the level of checks that refugees do. – Lavinia Limon	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Today is a very good day for us, a day we have been waiting for years, airlines flying to The Iranians have been full of German businessmen for weeks, or months. – Michael Tockuss	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The passengers would have been farmers or fishermen, or ordinary businessmen -- common folks, they are not very well off, otherwise they would be on better vessels or take the plane. But obviously, these are poor folks, simple folks who are trying to eke out an existence. – Philippine Red Cross Chairman Gordon	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We want political stability so that businessmen can project long-term investment plans, countries like China, Vietnam and Myanmar, their governments can implement key economic policies to keep investments going. – Ronnachit Mahattanapreut	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The trucks and businessmen have to wait in a queue at the tunnel for five days a week to get the produce to the local markets. – Amir Hazar	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Business is a mess in Russia, businessmen are losing money and as a result lots of people are trying to get their money out and start somewhere else. – Igor Sagiryan	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Are you going to actually grow the economy and jobs, are entrepreneurs going to be better off, are small businessmen going to be better off, with more taxes and more government? No! – Jason Chaffetz	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
What you're now doing, if this provision goes into effect, is putting candidates out there soliciting for contributions of $1 million plus and that's the nexus for these contributors; they want the credit, they are businessmen. This is a return on investment. – Meredith McGehee	Found on CNN 9 years ago
The country no longer tolerates the shameless corruption of some bad public officials and bad businessmen. – Rodrigo Janot	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Brazilian society expects the most complete and profound investigation of the illegal acts, and the punishment of all, all those involved, the country no longer tolerates the shameless corruption of some bad public officials and bad businessmen. – Rodrigo Janot	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking. – Isaac Asimov	added by anonymous 10 years ago
People in places many of us never heard of, whose names we can't pronounce or even spell, are speaking up for themselves. They speak in languages we once classified as exotic but whose mastery is now essential for our diplomats and businessmen. But what they say is very much the same the world over. They want a decent standard of living. They want human dignity and a voice in their own futures. They want their children to grow up strong and healthy and free. – Hubert Humphrey	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business. – Malcolm Forbes	added by anonymous 10 years ago
My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. -- (Comment made 10 April 1962 in reaction to news that U.S. Steel was raising prices by $6 per ton, right after the unions negotiated a modest new contract under pressure from JFK to keep inflation down.) – John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]	added by anonymous 13 years ago
There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them. – J. Paul Getty	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it. – Andrew Young	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it. – Andrew Young	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections. – Malcom Forbes	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time. – Nikita Khrushchev	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Many businessmen fail to understand Python principles--the ultimate absurdity was an offer from America to buy the 'format' of the Python shows, that is, Monty Python without the Pythons--corporate methods do not have the conceptual framework to deal with an anarchist collective, run by intelligent and arrogant comedians who have proved that their method works. – Robert Hewison	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers. – Irvin S. Cobb	added by anonymous 14 years ago
My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. (On steel industry executives who increased prices) – John Fitzgerald Kennedy	added by anonymous 14 years ago

The millions of tourists and businessmen that come in every year do not undergo even remotely the level of checks that refugees do.

– Lavinia Limon

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Today is a very good day for us, a day we have been waiting for years, airlines flying to The Iranians have been full of German businessmen for weeks, or months.

– Michael Tockuss

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The passengers would have been farmers or fishermen, or ordinary businessmen -- common folks, they are not very well off, otherwise they would be on better vessels or take the plane. But obviously, these are poor folks, simple folks who are trying to eke out an existence.

– Philippine Red Cross Chairman Gordon

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We want political stability so that businessmen can project long-term investment plans, countries like China, Vietnam and Myanmar, their governments can implement key economic policies to keep investments going.

– Ronnachit Mahattanapreut

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The trucks and businessmen have to wait in a queue at the tunnel for five days a week to get the produce to the local markets.

– Amir Hazar

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Business is a mess in Russia, businessmen are losing money and as a result lots of people are trying to get their money out and start somewhere else.

– Igor Sagiryan

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Are you going to actually grow the economy and jobs, are entrepreneurs going to be better off, are small businessmen going to be better off, with more taxes and more government? No!

– Jason Chaffetz

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

What you're now doing, if this provision goes into effect, is putting candidates out there soliciting for contributions of $1 million plus and that's the nexus for these contributors; they want the credit, they are businessmen. This is a return on investment.

– Meredith McGehee

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The country no longer tolerates the shameless corruption of some bad public officials and bad businessmen.

– Rodrigo Janot

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Brazilian society expects the most complete and profound investigation of the illegal acts, and the punishment of all, all those involved, the country no longer tolerates the shameless corruption of some bad public officials and bad businessmen.

– Rodrigo Janot

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

– Isaac Asimov

added by anonymous
10 years ago

People in places many of us never heard of, whose names we can't pronounce or even spell, are speaking up for themselves. They speak in languages we once classified as exotic but whose mastery is now essential for our diplomats and businessmen. But what they say is very much the same the world over. They want a decent standard of living. They want human dignity and a voice in their own futures. They want their children to grow up strong and healthy and free.

– Hubert Humphrey

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

– Malcolm Forbes

added by anonymous
10 years ago

My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. -- (Comment made 10 April 1962 in reaction to news that U.S. Steel was raising prices by $6 per ton, right after the unions negotiated a modest new contract under pressure from JFK to keep inflation down.)

– John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]