Abolishing Quotes

Through pro-growth policies, by abolishing Obamacare and eliminating other Obama-imposed impediments to economic growth, we will get our economy back on track. - Mitt Romney

There is a philosophical feeling that abolishing the leap second results in greater decoupling of the time scale from rotation of the Earth, and that this is not a good thing. But we put up with daylight-savings time in the United States, and China has one time zone for the entire country. My own feeling is that we all live with departures. - Dennis McCarthy

The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe. - Iris Murdoch

The issue has multiple sides to it, so it's not so easy to pummel your opponent with it. (Politicians) don't want to be seen abolishing the death penalty permanently but don't want to be seen as cavalier about it, either. - Richard Dieter

The governor feels that the law should eventually sunset but only after it has run its course, and it has not yet run its course. He supports extending it but not necessarily abolishing the deadline. - Russell Schweiss

The Berlin Wall was a mark of contradictions in the world, and it became a mark of radical changes in the world which touched the majority of humankind... But the way towards abolishing it was long and painful. - Mikhail Gorbachev

Software patents are a mess... Even if you don't believe in abolishing them entirely, there have been far too many examples of patents being granted even in light of overwhelming evidence of prior art and of dusty old patents on their third owner suddenly being used for a form of blackmail. - Gordon Haff

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. - Kahlil Gibran