Jules Verne Quotes
When you bring a man two millions of money, you need have but little fear that you will not be well received.
Verne, Jules. The Begum's Fortune. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1879.
William Cromwell had sent a $50,000 check to Taft’s Campaign. That would be the equivalent of more than $1 million in year 2000 money. He instructed the campaign manager to return the check. President Theodore Roosevelt thought Taft was being too principled and urged him to accept the money. See {640688} for Taft’s reply. Taft finally compromised between Roosevelt and his conscience, and took only $10,000.
The president was himself an evangelical Christian and he had gone out of his way to issue executive orders authorizing payments to be made for church operated social service activities where proselytizing was permitted. Many Americans thought bush had jumped over the wall separating church and state and yet some of the evangelical Christians kept insisting on more and more money.
The sense of the word affair is the general purpose, and Smith was referring to the fact when he investigated any proposed or implemented public scheme or law, there was an objective of someone obtaining money as a consequence. As journalists say in covering politics, “follow the money.”
The principle espoused in this quotation is the major reason that Health Care costs are so difficult to control. The individual patient and consumer is not driven by market conditions when his/her life is at stake.
Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a series of bestselling adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872).
