A Quote by Milton Friedman

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

Milton Friedman

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Milton Friedman
American - Economist
July 31, 1912 - November 16, 2006

Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.

Ronald Reagan

[I]n framing a Government for a nation we ought, in those provisions which are designed to be permanent, to calculate not on temporary, but on permanent causes of expence.

Alexander Hamilton

Nothing is more permanent than the temporary.

A. E. Stallings

Temporary tax cuts don't create permanent confidence, nor permanent jobs.

Mark McKinnon

Settlements may be temporary, but the action of the nations in the interest of peace and justice must be permanent. We can set up permanent processes. We may not be able to set up permanent decisions.

Woodrow Wilson

Pull your boots up by the bootstrap and know that everything is temporary. All good moments are temporary and all bad moments are temporary. Nothing lasts forever.

Jim Rohn

What is the difference between a prostitute and a wife? One is a temporary arrangement, the other is a little more permanent. Marriage is a permanent kind of prostitution; deep down, it is not different. Hence marriage and prostitution have both existed together.

Rajneesh

Temporary nationalization of the banks that are in very bad shape would mean basically that the government is the temporary owner. I always believe that the government should focus on its comparative advantages, and banking is not one of them. It should, therefore, if it nationalizes banks, sell them back to the private sector.

Joseph Stiglitz

Declines are temporary, gains are permanent.

Nick Murray

Motivation is temporary. Inspiration is permanent.

Kelly Slater

Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.

Chogyam Trungpa

The presidency is temporary - but the family is permanent.

Yvonne de Gaulle

Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.

Hunter S. Thompson

Since taking office, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party have transformed the Temporary Foreign Worker Program - which was originally designed to bring in temporary workers on a limited basis when no Canadian could be found - into one that has brought in a large pool of vulnerable workers.