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People are always selling the idea that they have a magic bullet of persuasion. You won't get poor by shorting such promises.
Narendra Modiji has proved his skills and delivered on his promises in Gujarat and he has some very good plans for the nation.
I'm committed to fulfilling my promises to my people, including my pledge to engage in constructive interaction with the world.
We're not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions.
Bitcoin is inherently international, and one of its great promises is it enables cross-border payments in a more efficient way.
A lot of people in 2008 voted for Obama. I did not vote for him. I voted for a third party. But I believed in Obama's promises.
I am for anyone that will give me lower taxes, stop all this stupid spending. Whoever promises me that gets this chicken's vote.
No cabinet official has delivered on Donald Trump's key campaign promises more resoundingly than Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Only the likes of Piers Morgan would be opposed to a Miss America contest that promises to be more 'empowering' and 'inclusive.'
One of the things I'm always proud of is 'Promises made, promises kept.' I've never ever not done what I've said I'm going to do.
The suffragettes endured 50 years of broken government promises and not being heard. The press never reported on their activities.
Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.
It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
One of those promises was to limit the size of government and to have the government serve the people - and not the other way around.
I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.
I have not broken any promises, but I have full freedom to say or write about what others have said to me during my tenure in the PMO.
I don't make big promises about losing weight or anything like that. I just suggest things that people can make to make them feel good.
What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.
I build on Christ, the rock of ages; on his sure mercies described in his word, and on his promises, all which I know are yea and amen.
There's no safety in anything, but in the arts, there is really this idea of no promises. I didn't follow the writing dream for safety.
I make no promises every book will be about Chicago, but it's so inspiring. It's a city of such contradictions. I love to write about it.
I think what they're looking for is for us to keep our promises and to do the simple things, like cutting spending and being responsible.
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.
In campaigns, promises are usually treated skeptically. Past positions are viewed as the one reliable way to gauge a candidate's instincts.
Science fiction is exciting because it promises to show the world and the universe from perspectives radically unlike what we've seen before.
It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities.
Today, people like Reese Witherspoon and Meryl Streep have vowed to improve the opportunities for women, but those promises are still unusual.
What I'm trying to do is deliver results, not promises; results, not vision; results, not concepts. The world is cynical about IBM's promises.
Sometimes even on an hourly basis we need to keep praying and keep our peace in God and remind ourselves on the promises of God that never fails.
Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them.
No matter how many times it happens, the public always seems to be shocked when an athlete dies young, but the reality is, there are no promises.
Seoul promises to make a big investment in the transition of ecology and civilization that will transform the green crisis into a green opportunity.
It's unbearable to see the people betrayed time and again by politicians who don't keep their promises and by the technocrats at the European Union.
Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes.
Al Qaeda has dominated the battlefield of the soul among the disaffected, disenfranchised, and dissatisfied. It promises action instead of discussion.
In view of our public pledges, we public officials can never again go before the public merely promising election reform. The time for promises is past.
What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises.
Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.
There are certain promises you make that are more sacred than anything that happens in a court of law, I don't care how many Bibles you put your hand on.
Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
I don't want anyone as president who promises to take care of me. I may be stupid, but I want a chance to try to be a grown-up and take care of my family.
In my 41 years of experience in our film industry I've noticed that people make a lot of promises in the evening which they promptly forget in the morning.
What does that mean for a society, for a democracy, when the people that you elect on the basis of promises can basically suborn the will of the electorate?
When the federal government invests in education, it should support quality education and career readiness rather than institutions that make empty promises.
Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it.
Girls' education is a human right. And along with its fundamental justice, it promises so much for the individual, for her family, for society, for all of us.
If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.
You have to be up-front from the very beginning about what your expectations of the other person are, and you can't make any promises you don't intend to keep.