Functioning Quotes

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere threat of a filibuster is enough to stop a vote; senators are rarely asked to pull all-nighters like Jimmy Stewart in 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.'

For the next three plus years, I really was not in creative shape. That part of my brain was not functioning.

The Internet is a bright spot for our struggling economy and functioning just fine without what amounts to a federal pat-down of the inner workings of the Internet.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

If you don't have a functioning financial system the world economy won't be revived. All the major economies have their responsibility to assist at a pace which is required to clean up the balance sheet of the banking system and to ensure that credit flows are resumed.

We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of the broader financial system and the broader economy, with lower equity prices, further downward pressure on home values, and less access to credit for companies and households.

We do not have a functioning market in the true sense of the word in health care. That's a layer of transparency that's sorely needed in America.

I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories.

The thing I like about my body is that it's strong. I can move furniture around my apartment. I can ride my horse... I can play basketball. It's a well functioning machine.

Children between the ages of five to ten years are even more variable. They are going to vary from very high functioning, capable of doing normal school work, to nonverbal who have all kinds of neurological problems.

For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.

Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.

I'm the son of highly functioning parents who I'm incredibly lucky to have.

A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or less valid but none of which should take precedence over national security.

The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.

A functioning police state needs no police.

I mean, everyone agrees with stress tests for banks. I mean that's clear. But banks should do that on their own. And they should worry about their own capital functioning. That's what they should do. It shouldn't be a government function.

I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.

The vast majority of politicians think they are functioning on high principle.

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls.

One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.

Anybody whose mind is functioning at all can't be content with the way the world works.

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

Iraq is a country that has been invaded. It's not a failing state that you want to help. It's a country that was functioning good or bad, with a horrible dictator, but you have invaded.

Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.