Guy Martin Quotes
I know what a pound is, and I earn my £12 an hour, and that's great.
Martin, Guy. Guy Martin: My Autobiography. Virgin Books, 2014.
Remark made during the Cuban missile crisis.
The majority of the Supreme Court has voted 5-4 that a corporation cannot be limited in the amount of money it spends on an election campaign as curtailing the money that is spend is tantamount to curtailing the amount of speech and spending money to elect a candidate is a form of political speech. Stevens made a major distinction between money and speech and challenged the logic that conflated the two. The nation was polarized on this issue, with liberals and conservatives on both sides of the question.
The Director had asked for a small budget at the instructions of President George W. Bush and his budget advisors. The mores of Washington is that a director of a public program must not ask for more money than the President wants that agency to have—even if the person is under oath and testifying. They say that they could not use the money wisely or some such euphemism.
Most of the great industrialists and business people work to create something and change the world somehow. They get rich but that is not typically their major motivation. Most rich people however do not want to trade money for time as they know in a capitalist system rich people can make money without working.
Note that her concept of a good job does not include a specific amount of compensation. Her definition requires whatever compensation it takes to have a reasonable standard of living. Businesses , economists and lawmakers have never been able to define that so they always revert to a sum of money which presumabley will buy this, but as Martin observed, sometimes id may and sometimes it may not. Food Stamps, indexed minimum wages have all been attempts to deal this this problem.
Guy Martin is a British motorcycle racer, television presenter, and heavy vehicle mechanic.
