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I've always considered making it legal for Americans to import their prescription drugs a free-trade issue. Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers. -- Chuck Grassley
The Export-Import Bank is one of the most important tools America has to create jobs. -- Maria Cantwell
Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers. In the United States, we import everything consumers want. So why not pharmaceuticals? -- Chuck Grassley
To be angered by evil is to partake of it, stupid. - Phrases of Import and Salvation, Chapter IX, The Book of Universal Truths and Other Humorous Anecdotes" -- Alan Dean Foster
Import and substituting imports with domestic production are a big opportunity. With a devaluation of the rupee, imports get expensive, and for Indian manufacturers, this creates a huge opportunity. -- Baba Kalyani
Now between '45 and '48, things would change enormously, 'cos we'd had credit in United States, credit from the Bank of America, credit from the Import-Export Bank and people had started working again. -- Gianni Agnelli
China is not looking for a trade surplus but wants to import more French goods. -- Li Keqiang
Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm. -- Henry Miller
It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
I grew up in Chicago, and there was always snow. In Los Angeles there never was, so we would always import snow! -- David Hasselhoff
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. -- William James
Developed countries and advanced developing countries must open their markets for products from the developing world, and support in developing their export and import capacity. -- Anna Lindh
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. -- Aristotle
Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for the benefit of the country. -- Eamon de Valera
Thru the auspices of the viewers who become - I think this is an import - in a democracy, become a working unit with law enforcement against the criminals. -- Robert Stack
Argentina is a marvelous place. Argentines are great bankers of information. They import information; if someone sneezes in Milan or in New York, they clean their faces very fast there. -- Emilio Ambasz
Medical tourism can be considered a kind of import: instead of the product coming to the consumer, as it does with cars or sneakers, the consumer is going to the product. -- James Surowiecki
When West End Girls came out on import, I was a student at Liverpool University. I'd go to a club in Liverpool and it would come on, and I'd be really embarrassed. -- Chris Lowe
If we were left to ourselves, unfettered by legislative enactments, we should gradually withdraw our capital from the cultivation of such lands, and import the produce which is at present raised upon them. -- David Ricardo
Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them. -- Brian Eno
The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure. -- Dan Lipinski
Given the brevity of our time here, it does seem likely that our species, too, must have at best a blinkered understanding of the shape of things, the import of certain events and what distinguishes 'good' from 'bad' luck. -- Karen Russell
Shaped like Texas, but twice as big, Mali is one of the poorest countries in the world. It exports almost nothing - mostly just cotton, gold and livestock - and doesn't have enough money to import much of anything, either. -- Richard Engel
They have been saying for a long time that Iraq made an effort to import active uranium, and my colleague demonstrated the other day that they came to the conclusion that it was a fake document that everybody is relying upon. -- Hans Blix
But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import. -- Harriet Ann Jacobs
We lived by very complex import and export policies, a very complex industrial licensing regime. Very few people could get licences, which were required right from manufacturing a pin to manufacturing a car, and generally went to people who found favour with the government. -- Sunil Mittal
The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers. -- Zac Goldsmith
Egypt is the largest wheat importer in the world. In some part, this is due to irrigation issues and inhospitable climes. Egypt's dependence on wheat is also partially because for decades it has been cheaper to import wheat, corn, soy and barley from the U.S. than to grow it locally. -- Marcus Samuelsson
Now, I'm a failed political consultant. But sometimes fiction has a way of capturing people's imagination in a way that non-fiction doesn't. Conservatives typically haven't written much fiction - specifically political thrillers - over the years to educate, inspire and mobilize people on issues of great import, but we ought to. -- Joel C. Rosenberg
Facebook is inherently viral. There are lots of sites that include a contact importer, and for lots of them it doesn't really make sense. For Facebook it fits so well. It wasn't until a few years in that we started building some tools that made it easier to import friends to the site. That was a huge thing that spiked growth. -- Mark Zuckerberg
Somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the food you eat has been touched by immigrant hands, and it is fair to say some of them are not here as they should be here. But if you didn't have these folks, you would be spending a lot more - three, four or five times more - for food, or we would have to import food and have all the food security risks. -- Tom Vilsack
Creativity is an import-export business. -- Ethan Zuckerman
Words matter, words have import. -- Douglas Kennedy
They import and they consume reality. -- Robinson Jeffers
Democracy is not a commodity for import and export. -- Prince Hassan bin Talal
Of what import are brief, nameless lives . . . to Galactus? -- Stan Lee
The boomerang is Australia's chief export (and then import). -- Demetri Martin
If we can't export the scenery, we'll import the tourists. -- William Cornelius Van Horne
Again, talent is the real import of being in the business. -- Bobby Sherman
India's trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
No architect should design buildings that import a huge amount of energy. -- Christiana Figueres
Criticism of the commitment of religion to the supernatural is thus positive in import. -- John Dewey
You cannot import anything from outside your country regarding the future of your country. -- Bashar al-Assad
Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping. -- James Howell
From whomsoever one hears anything, it is wisdom to understand the true import of it. -- Thiruvalluvar
Britain has a lot of wind. It's our wind. We don't have to import it. -- Edward Davey
Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance. -- Alexander Pope
If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it. -- Domenico Cieri
Regarding school vs. homeschoolIf it works, send them there!If it doesn't, don't import it. -- Joyce Herzog
Maybe all hospitals should import groups of rabble-rousing punk rockers to kick-start the languishing patients' hearts." -- Gayle Forman
If I could snap my fingers and import France's health care system today, I'd do it. -- Kevin Drum
Love is a strange commodity, because you can't import it if you don't also export it. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
You do not need to import greatness from another; you just need to act on your own. -- Alan Cohen
Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Haiti is extremely stratified socially with a number of large families controlling most of the economy, and import-export. -- Michele Montas
If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The import is not the kind of work woman does, but rather the quality of the work she furnishes. -- Emma Goldman
Let us come together and think of ways India does not have to import but we export to the world. -- Narendra Modi
What you demand from storytelling is a moral - even political - import. I tend to shun that didactic aspect. -- Aleksandar Hemon
There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export. -- K. V. Thomas
No progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mysterious and pathless power given to words of a certain import. -- Thomas de Quincey
An intuitive grasp of your character is formed by exploring scenes of profound emotional import-moments of overwhelming shame, joy, fear, pride, regret, forgiveness. -- David Corbett
When "reality" is sought for at large, it is without intellectual import; at most the term carries the connotation of an agreeableemotional state. -- John Dewey
In the name of religion, we force widowhood upon our three lakh girl-widows who could not understand the import of the marriage ceremony. -- Mahatma Gandhi
We must confront the reality that his [Donald Trump] comments have provoked, and consider whether we want to import such hatred to this country. -- Tulip Siddiq
The things of God are of deep import; and time, and experience, and careful and ponderous and solemn thoughts can only find them out. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
We have known for decades that our survival depends on finding new sources of energy. Yet we import more oil today than ever before. -- Barack Obama
Countries that innovate first get the new jobs, developing an economic edge over the C-free laggards that end up having to later import the technology. -- William H. Calvin
Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries. -- Dan Lipinski
The velocity of decision making in government was extraordinary slow. It took 18 to 24 months and 15 to 20 trips to Delhi to get a license to import computers. -- N. R. Narayana Murthy
I would have thought you'd import an English staff?" "Good heavens, no! I would not wish a British chef on anyone except the French tax collectors. -- Dan Brown
If America was trying to keep the bubonic plague out of its hemisphere, Canadians would import it just to show their independence of American foreign policy. -- Barbara Amiel
Every now and again your life's course can turn on one simple thing, some small decision the import of which isn't at all obvious at the time. -- Debra Hamel
So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual. -- Taiye Selasi
[America has to import so many workers because] for the last 35 years we have aborted more than a million people who would have been in our workforce. -- Mike Huckabee
Religious freedom, often referred to as the first freedom, is of central import to the American experiment. As such it should feature prominently in U.S. foreign policy. -- Frank Wolf
I don't enjoy any of the process of writing. I enjoy it when it goes on if it zings and it has great warmth and import and it's successful. -- Rod Serling
The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful, if man will live the life of nature, and not import into his mind difficulties which are none of his. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Integrationists are delighted to live in a democratic country where the rule of law prevails, whereas chauvinists wish to import the customs of the Middle East and South Asia. -- Daniel Pipes
I think we'd be very foolish to expect that we can just import everything from somewhere else and imagine that that's going to last for ever and ever and ever -- Prince Charles
Our strategy should be based on indigenisation and import substitution. The government must provide opportunities for domestic companies to participate in sectors in which the country continues to depend on imports. -- Baba Kalyani
Challenges of historic import threaten America's future. Action on the deficit, economy, energy, health care and much more is imperative, yet our legislative institutions fail to act. Congress must be reformed. -- Evan Bayh
I have a hard time really claiming my place as a songwriter or as doing anything of import really because I feel like I'm tooting my own horn in a way. -- Mirah
I have a great admiration for English actors and actresses and have used them at every opportunity over the years, but now I won't have to import them to New York -- Woody Allen
We aren't leveraging this great economic engine, the strongest economy in the world. And yet we have this totally weak response. We import $500 billion a year more in products than we export. -- Jennifer Granholm
People understand we have a dependence upon foreign oil. What they do not understand and find incredibly ridiculous is that we import refined product just making us more dependent on the industry. -- John Shimkus
When you get past making labels for things, it is possible to combine and transform elements into new things. Look at things until their import, identity, name, use, and description have dissolved. -- Corita Kent
Foreigners cannot bring freedom, cannot bring democracy, because this is related to the culture, to the different factors that affect or influence that society. You cannot bring it, you cannot import it. -- Bashar al-Assad
We are considering various ways of making use of our oil and gas downstream industries. This is to be complemented with the import of oil and gas from other sources as raw materials. -- Hassanal Bolkiah
It's true that interacting through text means no eyelines, no facial expressions, no tone of voice. That can be an advantage, helping us to consider content rather than eloquence, import rather than source. -- Nick Harkaway
News in general doesn't matter most of the time, and most people would be far better off if they spent their time consuming less news and more ideas that have more lasting import. -- Evan Williams
When it comes to our foreign policy, you seem to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s. -- Barack Obama
When experience contradicts firmly held judgments of self-efficacy, people may not change their beliefs about themselves if the conditions of performance are such as to lead them to discount the import of the experience -- Albert Bandura
Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to import them to the profane until they have been initiated in the mysteries of the science. -- Hippocrates
Think about what kind of person you are and shape your habits, and your happiness, to show what's true about you instead of thinking that you can just import the right answer from the outside. -- Gretchen Rubin
I think Jay is in import and export business as his cards say, but he finally found that the second most valuable commodity today is information.""And?""The most valuable?""People with information," I suggested. -- Len Deighton
Where do these arms come from, these Saturday night specials that constitute the instrument of threats in bank robberies, or the hand grenades used by terrorists? How can their sales and their import be permitted? -- Alva Myrdal
One can forget the meaninglessness of his own existence by occupying himself with scientific experiments of dubious import. Countless scientists and scholars spend their lives in the search of truths that are irrelevant to them. -- John Silber

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