David J. Anderson Quotes
We will govern as if we had a majority. You simply carry on with your agenda.
The Liberals had not won enough seats to form a majority government, and in the Parliamentary system, they had to form an alliance with a smaller party and govern with a minority.
David J. Anderson, Canadian Member of Parliament (Liberal), Statement, June 29, 2004
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This is an interesting variation of the FDR quotation regarding the President and Congress.
Many people think that running a corporation is good training and demonstrates the ability to run the country. However, business leaders who have come into government, almost all like Breton, think the two are very different.
The President had threatened to veto a budget bill if it contained a provision that would increase taxes for the wealthy. There were not enough votes to override the veto. The majority leader urged dropping the provision:
David J. Anderson (born 1956) is an American neurobiologist. He is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. His lab is located at the California Institute of Technology, where he currently holds the position of Seymour Benzer Professor of Biology, TianQiao and Chrissy Chen Leadership Chair and Director, TianQiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience. Anderson is a founding adviser of the Allen Institute for Brain Research, a non-profit research institute funded by the late Paul G. Allen, and spearheaded the Institute's early effort to generate a comprehensive map of gene expression in the mouse brain.
