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I am excited to rise today to support National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day. This celebration honors the husband and wife business owner teams whose work helps drive the economy and fuel job growth. -- Melissa Bean
Gun Owners of America is a lobby group dedicated to the proposition that the National Rifle Association is a bunch of accommodationist sissies. -- Timothy Noah
Some people are blinded by their experience. Soldiers know how important war is. Owners of slaves learn every day how inferior subject peoples are. -- William Stafford
One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease. -- D. H. Lawrence
Owners want to make their team a winner so they can get more fans in the stands, and that's why they go after the best ball-players and pay 'em what they're worth. -- Moses Malone
Owners sometimes think their dogs have already suffered so much that they couldn't possibly inflict any more criticism. Yet it's that very firm, effective training that would make those dogs happier and more secure. -- Jon Katz
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Owners lavish love on their pets, which is why so many go from non-aggressive pups to being out of control when they're older. People just don't realise their dog must respect them as leader of the pack. -- Cesar Millan
There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period. -- Ted Nugent
Owners who buy aggressive dogs for security may be kidding themselves: The chances that the victim of a fatal dog attack will be a burglar or human attacker are 1-in-177. The odds that the victim will be a child are 7-in-10. -- Jon Katz
Motorcycle riding has been a passion of mine since my 20th birthday, and as a proud member of the American Motorcyclist Association and the Harley Owners Group, I can attest that responsible riding has many unique recreational benefits for millions of Americans. -- Tim Walberg
Imperfections are attractive when their owners are happy with them. -- Augusten Burroughs
Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace. -- Dalai Lama
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely. -- Erma Bombeck
What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution. -- Richard Pryor
A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers. -- Ed Miliband
The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
I'm a cat whisperer. When I go to people's houses, their cats always like me better than the owners. -- Cory Monteith
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside. -- John F. Kennedy
I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft. -- Bill Gates
Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong. -- Jet Li
Something happens when you feel ownership. You no longer act like a spectator or consumer, because you're an owner. Faith is at its best when it's that way too. It's best lived when it's owned. -- Bob Goff
There will come a time when the gun owners of America, the law-abiding gun owners of America, will be the Rosa Parks and we will sit down on the front seat of the bus, case closed, -- Ted Nugent
When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye. -- Gary Sheffield
I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker in this cause. The example of great and pure characters is the only thing that can produce fine ideas and noble deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it -- Albert Einstein
[Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and re-ousting of a longline of successive "owners" who each in turn, as "patriots" with proud swelling hearts defended it against the next gang of "robbers" who came to steal it and did -- and became swelling-hearted patriots in their turn. -- Mark Twain
I don't believe gun owners have rights. -- Sarah Brady
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. -- Vladimir Lenin
The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it. -- Dan Savage
When President Obama speaks about raising taxes on the rich, he speaks about high-income employees and small business owners, not entrepreneurs who build big businesses. -- Robert Kiyosaki
I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em. -- Yogi Berra
Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business. -- Zig Ziglar
I don't feel 'vibes' when I enter a building - don't feel the previous owners looking down on me. But I do know when a place feels friendly. -- Penelope Keith
Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way. -- Ted Nugent
Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts. -- Joseph Stalin
Most small business owners are not particularly sophisticated business people. That's not a criticism; they're passionate about cutting hair or cooking food, and that's why they got in the business, not because they have an MBA. -- Andrew Mason
Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics, and there are no easy shortcuts to success. Ethics need to be carefully sown into the fabric of their companies. -- Vivek Wadhwa
Small businesses provide 75 percent of new U.S. jobs and are the backbone of our economy, and no outdated ban should be keeping small business owners from collecting the same interest their money could earn if it were held by an individual. -- Sue Kelly
Making improvements to our background check system and cracking down on illegal gun trafficking are common-sense ways to prevent violence without punishing law abiding gun owners. We owe it to the American people to take real action to reduce gun violence in our communities. -- Martin Heinrich
Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
I support gun safety measures, and I'll tell you, I grew up in a family of gun owners and hunters, and I went hunting with my dad as a kid, and you know, I have deep respect for the Second Amendment and the culture of our country. -- Eric Swalwell
Whether it's watching a $4,000 laptop fall off the conveyor belt at airport security, contending with a software conflict that corrupted your file management system, or begging your family to stop opening those virus-carrying 'greeting cards' attached to emails, all computer owners are highly leveraged and highly vulnerable technology investors. -- Douglas Rushkoff
Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God. -- Christopher Hitchens
Self-dealing, essentially, occurs when managers run companies to line their own pockets instead of those of the companies' owners. It's been a perennial problem in American capitalism and became a real dilemma when America moved toward a model in which corporations would be run by professional managers who had only small ownership stakes. -- James Surowiecki
If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship. -- Barack Obama
A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls... saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality? -- Stephen Hawking
Dogs have owners, cats have staff. -- Margaret Benson
Riches seldom make their owners rich. -- Samuel Johnson
The mine owners do not find the gold... -- Bill Haywood
I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners. -- Mitt Romney
Some of my biggest friends are big-time horse owners. -- Pete Rose
All names will soon be restored to their proper owners. -- C. S. Lewis
To all the fantasy owners who drafted me: You're welcome. -- Peyton Manning
Beings are owners of their action, heirs of their action. -- Gautama Buddha
Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners. -- Barry Goldwater
Women's beauty, like men's wit, is generally fatal to the owners. -- Lord Chesterfield
Books tell you more about their owners than the owners do. -- A.M. Homes
Here's a thought for sweat shop owners: Air Conditioning. Problem solved. -- Mitch Hedberg
I believe in returning the nation's wealth to its rightful owners. -- Barack Obama
All media owners want to attract advertising revenue. Google is no different. -- Maurice Saatchi
A lot of people in my state of Vermont are gun owners. -- Patrick Leahy
The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains. -- Ted Lindsay
The worst slave owners were those who were kind to their slaves -- Oscar Wilde
Ants in the house seem to be, not intruders, but the owners. -- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners. -- Ted Lindsay
The real mechanism for corporate governance is the active involvement of the owners. -- Louis Gerstner
The real mechanism for corporate governance is the active involvement of the owners. -- Louis Gerstner
The real mechanism for corporate governance is the active involvement of the owners. -- Louis Gerstner
Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period. -- Frances Wright
Most owners are at length able to teach themselves to obey their dog. -- Robert Morley
The best ideas lose their owners and take on lives of their own. -- Nolan Bushnell
Ninety-nine point nine percent of the people that are gun owners are very responsible. -- Jan Brewer
In this industry, the new owners prefer to kill anything they weren't responsible for. -- Tom Berenger
I love standup, but not the grind of traveling and dealing with club owners. -- Judy Gold
Most of the dreams that have suffered to death were murdered by their own owners. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners. -- Ken Auletta
Yes here's to the founding fathersâ??slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes... -- David Mazzucchelli
[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property. -- Abraham Lincoln
Business owners should not have to choose between violating their faith and violating the law. -- David Green
Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners. -- E. Joseph Cossman
You know how it is with cats: They don't really have owners, they have staff. -- P. C. Cast
We must remember we are stewards of what God has provided for us, not owners. -- Joyce Meyer
Yogi Berra, Bill Lee, they were irreverent, poked fun at the stodgy owners and managers. -- W. P. Kinsella
We'll be passing tax relief for small business owners and working families across the country. -- Mike Pence
Most small-business owners have no financial education when they started. They weren't trained to be entrepreneurs. -- Robert Kiyosaki
There is such a thing as commonsense middle-ground gun reform, and most gun owners support it. -- Mike Quigley
Small business owners that are female, that is their number one problem, is access to capital. -- Marsha Blackburn
The Labour Party believes in turning workers against owners; we believe in turning workers into owners. -- Margaret Thatcher
I am doing the servant job in order for you to become the owners of Heaven -- Sun Myung Moon
When employees unite, they form a union but when business owners unite, they form a team. -- Robert Kiyosaki
The Packers have lots of owners nobody knows instead of one owner who doesn't know squat. -- Jim McMahon
But it is not for the perfect vase or the polished gem to choose their owners. -- Mary Renault
The Packers have lots of owners nobody knows instead of one owner who doesnt know squat. -- Jim McMahon
I don't want to be in the Hall of Fame. I don't think owners should be. -- George Steinbrenner
All rent is based on the monopoly power of private owners of certain portions of the globe. -- David Harvey
Few targets of ridicule are as easy to hit as owners and handlers of competitive show dogs. -- Meghan Daum
There is no such thing as a problem breed. However, there is no shortage of 'problem owners'.... -- Cesar Millan
Too many start up business fail simply because their owners continue to think and act like employees. -- Michael LeBoeuf
I can't blame the drivers for making the move, and I can't blame the owners for being upset. -- Ken Schrader
Many hybrid owners realize how sharply fuel efficiency goes down over 55 mph because they get instant mileage feedback. -- Felix Kramer
The NRA appears to have evolved into the lobby for gun and ammunition manufacturers rather than gun owners. -- Adolphus Busch
The oil lobby, perhaps the most powerful lobby on earth, is almost matched by hospital owners and doctors. -- Jimmy Carter
I don't think that sleeping with one of the owners gives you the advantages people think it does. -- Paula Yates
Millions and millions of people are proud gun owners, and they do it responsibly and by the law. -- Joe Manchin
Workers work hard enough to not be fired, and owners pay just enough so that workers won't quit. -- Robert Kiyosaki
This country was founded by a group of slave owners who told us that all men are created equal. -- George Carlin
Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers. -- Mikhail Khodorkovsky
You learn a lot from your customers, and when your customers are also your owners, you learn even more. -- Norman Pearlstine
The Federal Government is achieving its stated goal of helping more minorities go from being renters to being owners. -- Bill Dedman
In this respect, granting homosexuals the right to marry is like granting plantation owners the right to own slaves. -- Alan Keyes
I think the officials and NFL owners are playing to the type of game that people want to see. -- Jim Otto
I always like to refer managers in corporate America as the renters of the corporate assets, not the owners. -- Henry Kravis
Lovely female shapes are terrible complicators of the difficulties and dangers of this earthly life, especially for their owners. -- George du Maurier
Manchester City are built on sand and I don't mean that because their owners are from the Arab countries. -- Kevin Keegan
Based on my pool of coached clients, 90% of the challenges for business owners exist in a lack of personal development. -- Darren L Johnson
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. -- Vladimir Lenin
Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on. -- Peter Ueberroth
Women had enormous weight in America. And they still have. Because they are truly the padrone [owners, masters] of America. -- Sergio Leone
There is absolutely no disconnect between common sense gun safety measures and protecting the Second Amendment rights of gun owners. -- Hillary Clinton
Small business owners are fighting every day to create and innovate, but continue to face government barriers to job creation. -- Peter Roskam

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