Here in the UK the government has decided to accept the recommendations of the Better Regulation Task Force to measure and make targeted reductions in the administrative costs - the red tape costs - that regulations impose on business.
We measure very carefully what the positives are and I think it is less than one tenth of one percent, so we are very pleased with the accuracy of our biometric checks and we continue to monitor that.
There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.
Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn laws in a great measure do - and you will, ere long, render the land in Great Britain of as little value as it is in other countries.
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.
One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.
The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.
We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information.
As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.