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We'll set our approach to borrowing, to spending, to taxation, in a sensible way on a sensible timescale.

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Douglas Alexander
British - Politician
Born: October 26, 1967

Gotta have safety at our borders. We're a sovereign nation, gotta protect our borders. Make sure the workplace doesn't become a magnet for folks to be hired without the authorization. And then let's be realistic and sensible about how we approach all those folks who made America their home, established businesses, have children who have gone on to be valedictorians at their high school - and let's do these things in a very sensible way.

Xavier Becerra

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

W. H. Auden

All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.

Rudyard Kipling

Whether something is sensible or not is subjective. What is sensible to me might not be for others.

Radhika Apte

It's time for the sensible center to rise up and push for a rational approach to our fiscal challenges.

Steven Rattner

It is all very well for so-called sensible people to recommend flat heels and short skirts, but most of us prefer not to be sensible.

Anna Held

I'd been spending way too much money. I wasn't very sensible. I got to the point where I couldn't afford to even pay the mortgage.

Chesney Hawkes

Just as the senses require sensible objects to stimulate them, so our powers of observation, recollection, and imagination do not work spontaneously, but are set in motion by the demands set up by current social occupations.

John Dewey

"As for that," said Waldenshare, "sensible men are all of the same religion." "Pray, what is that?" inquired the Prince. "Sensible men never tell."

Benjamin Disraeli

We try to make sensible decisions with the facts in front of us. The problem with sensible decisions is that so is everyone else.

Paul Arden

I don't want to be the crazy showbiz family. When I walk into the PTA meetings with my sensible flat shoes and my sensible short wig, I do not look crazy.

Wendy Williams

We have sensible fans and sensible policies.

David Gill

When you turn 18 in the United States, you should be automatically registered to vote. Ideally, this sensible reform would be a federal law affecting all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and American territories, but our federal government stopped being sensible a very long time ago.

Shaun King

It is a thing which every sensible American should learn from every sensible Englishman, that glare and glitter, gimcracks and gewgaws, are not indispensable to domestic solacement.

Herman Melville

Maybe if I'd studied writing instead of anthropology, I'd be more sensible. You know - pick a genre, follow the rules, stay in the box - but let's face it. Sensible people don't major in anthropology.

Mary Doria Russell

What we're going to do is redouble our efforts on financial regulatory reform, because that has in it sensible things like say on pay, so at least the shareholders are minding the store, sensible things like saying, for heaven's sakes, compensation should be focused on - on long term, so that you don't have rewards for short-term risk-taking.

Christina Romer

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