In the absence of sound oversight, responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.

Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it’s about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it’s less than one ton. It’s an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.

Have we been going up and down in business, and are those round about us as yet unaware of our Christian character? Have we never spoken to them the Word of Life? Lord, arouse us to a deep concern for all with whom we come in contact from day to day.

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

Every driver is different, so I just hope whatever I do is going to be good enough, because it’s not that I just want to be with McLaren. I want to win with McLaren.

To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.

Don’t be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.

We’re not going to go 82-0 and blow everybody out. We are going to be challenged.

If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don’t subsidize, we don’t want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact.

Laws are silent in time of war.

As long as I am playing competitive football I am happy.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

Every successful businessman will have experienced set-backs and failures – they’re lying if they say they haven’t. Virgin has had some tremendously successful businesses and some that have not quite worked out. Virgin Cola springs to mind – the product wasn’t distinct enough from Coca-Cola.

I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car.

A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges.

There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother’s milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won’t be any winners.

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

In my line of work, the enemy gets a vote.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

I won at every level – all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I’ve won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won’t be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

What we have to find is the right level of regulation of our financial system so that it has the incentive to invest in things, but at the same time, it is sufficiently regulated so it can’t get in the kind of trouble that we have seen in the past and we have seen recently.

Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don’t approve them all. They look hard at the safety and the testing. And they make sure that the benefits far outweigh any of the downsides.

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating… because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

SpaceX has the potential of saving the U.S. government $1 billion a year. We are opposed to creating an entrenched monopoly with no realistic means for anyone to compete.

When I was playing, there were always lots of teams in contention for the league – Arsenal, Manchester City, Liverpool, Leeds. Every week was a big game and a big battle.

The connectivity declaration is about uniting the whole industry – a lot of companies that typically compete very fiercely – to push in a coherent direction.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

I will fight in many weight divisions.

There are certain age limits on police officers. They’d have retired me out at 65.

You must keep raising this game to higher and higher levels, as on the pool table – mastering eventually the psychological angles. Your playing is a pleasure, all the way to the end, to death, when the game is over.

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.

Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank.

My biggest competitor was my mum. I used to try to beat her at Chinese chequers, chess, carrom, volleyball, badminton, football, wrestling.

When I’m making an American film, it’s more safe because there are so many people on the set to watch me. Whatever I do, they say, ‚What are you doing!? Tell me first!‘ There are so many restrictions.

I’d love to go into WWE and have a real knock and see what’s what.

The seven-inch tablets are tweeners: too big to compete with a smartphone, and too small to compete with an iPad.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘

I don’t fly because of the enormous climate impact of aviation per person.

Every Republican’s voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they’re proposing. Romney wants to let the – he said in the first 100 days he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules – unchain Wall Street. They’re gonna put y’all back in chains.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

People just don’t understand how obsessed I am with winning.

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

At United, there are great traditions, which you can’t buy in one or two years. They are created by victories. You need to prove again and again that you are better than the others. Manchester United have always done this, and are still doing it, so they are the best.

You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

In the ideal world, if I was perfect, I’d be able to beat every teammate that I have, in every race.

I seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that’s it, and somebody else come in.

Are we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?