Quotes about Checks

Peter Drucker

Inside an organization there are only cost centers. The only profit center is a customer whose check has not bounced.

Naomi Campbell

You better check your lipstick before you come and talk to me.

Henry Ireton

Men are corrupt and will be so … laws must be invented to check and balance the original and ineradicable perversion of human nature.

Ireton was one of the leaders of the Parliament faction in the English Civil War. He was such an important figure that when King Charles II regained power after Ireton’s death, Charles II was so rabid that he had Ireton’s body dug up, along with that of Cromwell and John Bradshaw, and mutilated as the would have been had they been executed.

Peter Tork

You should be a hero to yourself. And if you're not... check it out.

Alexander M. Bickel

… the least dangerous branch of our government.

The Least Dangerous Branch he used as the title of one of his books.

Jaime Harrison

I know Democrats who have written Lindsey Graham checks.

John Adams

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

David Keene

The founders did not trust human beings, and that is what the Constitution is about.

James Madison

Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government can render us secure. To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea, if there be sufficient virtue and intelligence in the community, it will be exercised in the selection of these men. So that we do not depend on their virtue, or put confidence in our rulers, but in the people who are to choose them.

Ben Okri

Don't read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.

Robert Orben

Did you ever figure to be living in a time when your check is good, but the bank bounces?

Jeremy Bentham

Publicity is the soul of justice. Without publicity, all other checks are insufficient: in comparison of publicity, all other checks are of small account.

Walter Lippmann

In a democracy, the opposition is not only tolerated … but must be maintained as indispensable.

Jan Koum

We're somewhat lucky here in the United States, where we hope that the checks and balances hold out for many years to come and decades to come. But in a lot of countries, you don't have these checks and balances.