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The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.
Ben Stein
Obligations
People
Law
Amazing
Sold
Pension
Bought
Mortgage
Unto
Insurance
Did
Short
Just
Swap
Them
Themselves
Then
Who
Credit
Default
Funds
I am and will remain a tax resident in France and in this regard I will, like all French people, fulfill my fiscal obligations.
Bernard Arnault
Obligations
People
Will
France
Remain
Like
French
French People
Am
Fiscal
Tax
Regard
Fulfill
Resident
George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions.
Bianca Jagger
Rights
Obligations
Law
Human Rights
Rule
Rule Of Law
Liberties
Embarked
UN
Administration
Civil
Civil Liberties
George
His
George W
George W. Bush
Up
Walking
Human
Conventions
Bush
Assault
International
Tearing
Away
Treaties
It is indefensible that IRS Commissioner Koskinen has not been held accountable for failing to meet his legal obligations. This is exactly what the American people are tired of when they say that our government is on the wrong track.
Bill Flores
Government
Tired
Obligations
Legal
People
Meet
Our
Say
Indefensible
Exactly
Exactly What
Wrong
Failing
Track
Been
His
Accountable
American
Commissioner
IRS
American People
Held
They Say
I think people have a legitimate right to minimise their tax obligations if they can, but they should pay their fair whack. I do think it's important to be transparent.
Boris Johnson
Obligations
People
Important
Pay
Think
Fair
Whack
Tax
Legitimate
Should
Transparent
Right
Sometimes entrepreneurs, successful people, need to put their blinders back on. They're losing their day to distraction, to faulty obligations.
Brendon Burchard
Day
Obligations
People
Sometimes
Losing
Back
Faulty
Distraction
Entrepreneurs
Put
Blinders
Successful
Successful People
Need
But I think the global economy will understand that the United States has the ability to meet its obligations. But it's not going to be able to do it over the long term if we can't control the growth of government.
Charles Bass
Government
Obligations
Will
Long
Control
Think
Meet
States
Ability
Able
Long-Term
Over
Term
Economy
Global
Global Economy
Understand
Going
United
United States
Growth
Union leaders argue that pension shortfalls account for a proportionally tiny portion of governments' financial problems, and by all accounts, there are plenty of parties to blame for the growth in payrolls and obligations.
Charles Duhigg
Obligations
Blame
Financial
Problems
Plenty
Pension
Argue
Leaders
Parties
Governments
Account
Accounts
Tiny
Union
Growth
Portion
I try to understand the rules and follow them. And I try to make sure that I'm disclosing my obligations.
Cheryl Mills
Obligations
Try
Rules
Follow
Make
Sure
Understand
Them
Being a baseball player is most important, first and foremost. Obviously, there are other obligations that come with everything. You just need to balance it and take it in stride, but at the same time, be mindful of your time and prioritize everything and what is most beneficial.
Christian Yelich
Time
You
Obligations
Balance
First
Important
Other
Beneficial
Mindful
Stride
Everything
Take
Come
Most
Obviously
Prioritize
Foremost
Same
Just
Same Time
Being
Your
Baseball
Baseball Player
Player
Need
This is not a change of career for me. Just an expansion of it. I have contracts and obligations and business partners who are counting on me. And I would only want to do another movie if it's as good as this one.
Claudia Schiffer
Good
Me
Business
Change
Obligations
Would
Only
Counting
Partners
Another
Contracts
Expansion
Just
Want
Movie
Business Partners
Who
Career
It is high time that the international community tell Saddam Hussein and his regime that this is not an issue of negotiation with the U.N. about obligations that they undertook in 1991.
Condoleezza Rice
Time
Obligations
Community
Negotiation
Tell
High
Hussein
About
High Time
Saddam
Saddam Hussein
Issue
His
Regime
International
International Community
When I am free to train and free to move, I feel like a gorilla in the jungle. Then, when there are a bunch of media obligations, I feel like I have been captured and am being kept on display.
Conor McGregor
Obligations
Free
Feel
Like
Gorilla
Am
Been
Train
Bunch
Jungle
Move
Being
Then
Display
Captured
Media
Kept
We must look to an open, tolerant, inclusive England, which embraces the values of a Britain that still leads the world in terms of an open democracy, as well as an understanding of the needs for responsibilities and obligations to run alongside the affirmation of individual rights.
David Blunkett
Needs
Democracy
Rights
Obligations
World
Values
Understanding
Inclusive
Responsibilities
Run
Must
Embraces
Individual
Open
Individual Rights
Leads
Alongside
Look
Terms
Well
Still
Affirmation
Which
England
Tolerant
Britain
Yes, Europe needs to be more welcoming, but that's only half of it. Muslims need to embrace the obligations of European residence and citizenship.
David Ignatius
Needs
Obligations
Half
Muslims
Citizenship
Embrace
More
Only
Welcoming
Yes
Europe
European
Residence
Need
When Congress exercises the powers delegated to it by the Constitution, it may impose affirmative obligations on executive and judicial officers of state and local governments as well as ordinary citizens.
David Souter
Constitution
Obligations
Congress
State
Local
Local Governments
Citizens
Powers
Executive
Well
Exercises
Judicial
Impose
Governments
Affirmative
Officers
May
Ordinary
While it may be difficult to understand why cities and even entire states would doom themselves to insolvency by undertaking these obligations, the answer is simple: Democratic politicians, who have near-total political control of California and of America's biggest cities, support this massive transfer of wealth to public employees.
Devin Nunes
Obligations
Wealth
Simple
Political
Employees
Control
Politicians
Difficult
States
Cities
Would
Entire
Support
Democratic
Massive
California
Understand
Answer
Undertaking
America
May
Doom
Transfer
Biggest
While
Public
Themselves
Who
Even
Why
Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Gratitude
Obligations
World
Will
Men
Else
Those
Must
Born
Bought
Cannot
Create
Things
I think there is a very powerful wish that we all have of being self-contained and having sort of opted out or choosing to remove ourselves from society and to have no ties and no obligations, and even no possessions. To be free in a particular way.
Edward Zwick
Obligations
Free
Wish
Remove
Think
Society
Way
Possessions
Ourselves
Out
Having
Self-Contained
Powerful
Particular
Particular Way
Sort
Ties
Very
Being
Choosing
Even
We want to make sure that workers know their rights and that employers know their obligations. That is the best way to protect workers.
Elaine Chao
Best
Rights
Obligations
Way
Best Way
Know
Employers
Protect
Make
Sure
Want
Workers
We have many rules and regulations that can be sometimes confusing and complicated. By reaching out to the employer community and educating them on what their responsibilities and obligations are to their work force, that, along, with strong enforcement, is the best way to protect workers.
Elaine Chao
Work
Best
Obligations
Complicated
Strong
Sometimes
Community
Way
Rules
Out
Responsibilities
Best Way
Along
Employer
Reaching
Protect
Force
Educating
Them
Confusing
Workers
Enforcement
Regulations
Many
Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts.
Elihu Root
Justice
Obligations
Natural
Law
Depend
Sense
Rules
Circumstances
Claims
Case
Insistence
Facts
Particular
May
International
International Law
Disputed
Right
Applied
Treaty
I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my, or any, sense of right and wrong. I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.
Eliot Spitzer
Family
Obligations
Better
First
Sense
Way
Promised
Wrong
Most
Importantly
Any
Public
Apologize
Acted
Whom
Right
Right And Wrong
Violates
Other countries around the world make employees and retirees first in the priority. For example, in Mexico, the bankruptcy laws say if a company wants to go bankrupt... obligations to employees and retirees will have a first priority. That has an effect on every negotiation that takes place with every company in Mexico.
Elizabeth Warren
Obligations
World
Will
Example
First
Employees
Every
Other
Other Countries
Say
Negotiation
Laws
Takes
Retirees
Countries
For Example
Make
Around
Priority
Go
Effect
Mexico
Bankrupt
Bankruptcy
Wants
Place
Company
For many women, the on-time payments of domestic support obligations are essential to economic survival.
Elizabeth Warren
Survival
Obligations
Women
Economic
Support
Domestic
Essential
Payments
Many
I went to America on holiday when I was 17 and, before I knew it, I'd been signed up by an agency and had these obligations I didn't understand, but which I couldn't say no to. This industry chose me. But I did choose to make it fulfilling.
Elle Macpherson
Me
Obligations
Before
Say
Signed
Had
Knew
Make
Industry
Understand
Been
Up
America
Did
Which
Holiday
Agency
Fulfilling
Choose
Chose
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