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This could have been an attempt to deter the United States (from hacking and meddling), to try to shake the U.S. establishment, and to try to weaken Clinton, it's pure politics, it's not about military secrets. – Andrei Soldatov	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
We are not meddling in anything that could perceived as potentially destabilizing. – Douglas Lute	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's not just prices, it's also government meddling, they expected subsalt cash to keep them in power for years, what did we get? In short, a disaster. – John Forman	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The problem is you need to let the market reach its own level rather than meddle, and they are meddling. – Gary Greenberg	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The overall market conditions are poor but the government responses are a bit panicked rather than calm and considered, the problem is you need to let the market reach its own level rather than meddle, and they are meddling. – Gary Greenberg	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Since when have you started meddling here from the United States? Who do you think you are?. – Wednesday President Tayyip Erdogan	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
He insisted that if he wants to come -- and it was a very important meeting -- he needs to be far away enough from the election that it doesn't look like in some ways we're meddling or putting our thumbs on the scale. – President Barack Obama	Found on CNN 9 years ago
I will say it openly, the process is not easy. If it were not for constant external meddling by the representatives of many European countries, NATO members and the United States, the problematic issues would be solved much more quickly. – Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
They are behaving dangerously. The U.S. embassy's meddling is starting to become intolerable, i'm evaluating relations. – The Venezuelan leader	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free from the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests of will with peasants defending their homes, behavioral scientists who can't tell a pigeon from a poet, or anyone else who tries to wish freedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion. – Noam Chomsky	added by anonymous 10 years ago
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else. – Plato	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. – Theodore Roosevelt	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Learning builds daily accumulation, but the prictice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it. – Lao-Tzu, Tao te Ching	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Learning builds daily accumulation, but the practice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it. – Tao te Ching, 48. Lao-Tzu	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain, even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with another's way of life - so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands off – Henry Miller	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. – Theodore Roosevelt	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilisation. – Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde	added by anonymous 14 years ago

This could have been an attempt to deter the United States (from hacking and meddling), to try to shake the U.S. establishment, and to try to weaken Clinton, it's pure politics, it's not about military secrets.

– Andrei Soldatov

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We are not meddling in anything that could perceived as potentially destabilizing.

– Douglas Lute

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's not just prices, it's also government meddling, they expected subsalt cash to keep them in power for years, what did we get? In short, a disaster.

– John Forman

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The problem is you need to let the market reach its own level rather than meddle, and they are meddling.

– Gary Greenberg

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The overall market conditions are poor but the government responses are a bit panicked rather than calm and considered, the problem is you need to let the market reach its own level rather than meddle, and they are meddling.

– Gary Greenberg

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Since when have you started meddling here from the United States? Who do you think you are?.

– Wednesday President Tayyip Erdogan

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

He insisted that if he wants to come -- and it was a very important meeting -- he needs to be far away enough from the election that it doesn't look like in some ways we're meddling or putting our thumbs on the scale.

– President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I will say it openly, the process is not easy. If it were not for constant external meddling by the representatives of many European countries, NATO members and the United States, the problematic issues would be solved much more quickly.

– Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

They are behaving dangerously. The U.S. embassy's meddling is starting to become intolerable, i'm evaluating relations.

– The Venezuelan leader

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free from the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests of will with peasants defending their homes, behavioral scientists who can't tell a pigeon from a poet, or anyone else who tries to wish freedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion.

– Noam Chomsky

added by anonymous
10 years ago

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

– Plato

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

– Theodore Roosevelt

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Learning builds daily accumulation, but the prictice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it.

– Lao-Tzu, Tao te Ching

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Learning builds daily accumulation, but the practice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it.

– Tao te Ching, 48. Lao-Tzu

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain, even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with another's way of life - so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands off

– Henry Miller

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

– Theodore Roosevelt

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilisation.

– Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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