A Quote by Corazon Aquino

The government cannot do everything all at once. It can't wave a magic wand and meet everyone's demands simultaneously.

Corazon Aquino

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Corazon Aquino
Statesman
January 25, 1933 - August 1, 2009

Jose Mourinho doesn't have a magic wand, and you wave the wand, and everything goes the way you want.

Petr Cech

[T]he myth that there was somehow a magic wand in the early 1980s to cure AIDS - a wand that Reagan deliberately refused to wave - is now almost conventional wisdom.

Andrew Sullivan

I wish that we did have a magic wand which we could wave and hey presto! Magic! Unfortunately life is not like that.

Desmond Tutu

Let me offer you, metaphorically, two magic wands that have sweeping powers to change society. With one wand you could wipe out all racism and discrimination from the hearts and minds of white America. The other wand you could wave across the ghettoes and barrios of America and infuse the inhabitants with Japanese or Jewish values, respect for learning, and ambition. ... I suggest that the best wand for society and for those who live in the ghettoes and barrios would be the second wand.

Richard Lamm

I beg you I no magician. I can't just wave a magic wand.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

The government pretends to be endowed with the mystical power to accord favors out of an inexhaustible horn of plenty. It is both omniscient and omnipotent. It can by a magic wand create happiness and abundance. The truth is the government cannot give if it does not take from somebody.

Ludwig von Mises

If I could wave a magic wand, I'd break up the banking system.

Kenneth C. Griffin

Once in debt, interest is your companion every minute of the day and night; you cannot shun it or slip away from it; you cannot dismiss it; it yields neither to entreaties, demands, or orders; and whenever you get in its way or cross its course or fail to meet its demands, it crushes you.

J. Reuben Clark

I don't think somebody can just, like, wave a magic wand and make you a star.

Sandra Bernhard

I think it was in the Rose Garden where I issued this brilliant statement: If I had a magic wand -- but the president doesn't have a magic wand. You just can't say, 'low gas.'

George W. Bush

I never wanted to be a public figure. I feel that I always have to dampen down people's expectations. They expect me to be an oracle, wave a magic wand, sprinkle some slow, sparkly dust on them, to make everything all right.

Carl Honore

People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

If I could wave a magic wand, I would be a size 6 and still be able to eat cake every day.

Amanda de Cadenet

People who wait for a magic wand fail to see that they ARE the magic wand.

Thomas Leonard

Democrats are just as wrong to insist the law is perfect, that the law doesn't have things that need to be fixed, and to pretend that the law did wave a magic wand and make everything in the health care system fixed.