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Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; have in general been as short in their lives as they are violent in their deaths.

James Madison

You try to maintain a certain distance at all times, and you have to deal with different wind speeds and turbulence ... It's a lot of work.

Paul Wood

Today is a time of turbulence and stagnation, of threat and promise from a competitor: the magic, omnivorous videocassette recorder (VCR). In other words, it is business as usual.

Richard Corliss

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

Since China moved on the currency last July, the economy has been charging along. China should feel comfortable and confident in driving through reforms. There has been no economic or financial turbulence.

Hong Liang

Our people can draw on the tremendous strides made in recent years, not only in terms of advancing themselves spiritually and materially, but also in having weathered social and economic turbulence, triggered, in the main, by factors not of their own creation.

Denzil Douglas

The market was prepared for the end of quantitative easing, it has caused some turbulence in the past couple of weeks.

Rick Klingman

The market remains very nervous and volatile. While we have the turbulence in the U.S. markets, it's best to stay clear.

Celso Senise

The plane was taking off when suddenly it veered to the left and wham, we felt really hard turbulence. I saw others trying to save themselves, but they were too injured.

Rohadi Sitepu

It isn't a demand issue. There will be some turbulence near-term based purely on component delivery issues that are beyond Apple's control.

Bill Fearnley

Alarmism was creating turbulence and confusion. Approving the budget has distanced us from these risks.

Cesare Vaciago

Bad weather remains one of the greatest challenges facing pilots. For instance, when there's a thunderstorm, it becomes dangerous to fly. The cumulonimbus clouds are also dangerous as they cause a lot of turbulence.

Maipelo Kelotlegile

Airplanes don't have brakes, so you can't stop and let one go in front of the other. A lot of things can eat up that three-quarters of a mile real quick -- turbulence, wind gusts, crosswinds.

Marvin Smith

Keeping your seat belt fastened all the time is the best way to protect against injury in case of turbulence, ... I congratulate American for taking this positive safety step and encourage other airlines to do consider doing the same.

Jane Garvey

People get white knuckles from turbulence. But I don't think what we're experiencing in the markets is a suggestion that we're on the verge of something really horrible.

Joseph Mcalinden

The last time the U.S. went to war with Iraq, the S&P dropped by 10 percent, the Dow by 10 percent. This issue is an artificial injection into the economic scenario that is hopefully a one-time affair. But it creates a lot of turbulence and sends people running for cover.

Mike Thompson

After a year of turbulence following the reorganization of the sales force, it now appears that the group is fully engaged and focused as leadership and accounts have been settled.

Mark Marcon

It's all about wake turbulence. If you can control that wake turbulence [by using wings and different end plates] you can give the driver following more control and ability to pass and run side by side.

Gary Nelson

We face turbulence on the horizon for another couple of years in the EU sugar market, in terms of those groups staying in and those getting out and from quota cuts.

George Weston

It was simply a slow, dead man walking kind of thing. I had expected turbulence, the worst I experienced was people averting their eyes and the most common reaction was people looking at me, silence.

Ray Mcgovern

United had suggested that it was on a glide path to emerging from bankruptcy. This suggests there is more turbulence ahead. This continues to dog United.

Joe Schwieterman

I want my party to be a place where something is always going on, with one condition -- that what goes on must always be constructive and look forward, not destructive and directed against each other. We should draw a line under the turbulence of recent weeks and look forward.

Matthias Platzeck

The black chapter of strife, violence, turbulence and turmoil is finally closed.

Hun Sen

I don't promise an easy future. Brazil cannot isolate itself from the rest of the world. Brazil is in the midst of some turbulence.

Fernando Henrique Cardoso

Unless a big surprise comes out from the trade report, it may not cause much turbulence.

Fumihiko Kawano

There's ... a liability issue. If an American Airlines plane hits clear air turbulence and someone is injured, they can fall back on the fact that they have it stated in their policy that they must be seated with their seat belt fastened at all times.

Chris Mcginnis