Symbolic Quotes


While the government accepted the decision to shift policy, that was because it was a symbolic move and had no real implications for long-term yields. There's no doubt they'll put more pressure on the Bank of Japan to keep the zero rate policy. - Ryota Sakagami



Whether he is alive or dead almost doesn't matter because he has become a symbolic figure, rather than an operational figure. - Richard Clarke



When you're giving a tour of the Oval Office, you're trying to point to things that emphasize what you're trying to do. For him, the optimism is very symbolic of what he wants his presidency to be about. - Nicolle Wallace



When you get a big disagreement, it's symbolic as well of a disagreement of a bigger and broader nature, which is the economic power of China. How do we deal with it? How do we handle it? - Tony Blair



When the next generation of content is developed, we have to think in a totally different way. Think about it more symbolically. The main story that you see on the TV screen is maybe like the living room of a house. But there are various other rooms in this house that you will otherwise never see. But if you use the Internet, you find out what's in the attic. And if you use the cell phone, you find out what's on the first floor. And on another medium, you find out what's in the cellar. - Cyriac Roeding



What we've got here is an ordinance with a lot of loopholes. What we've got here is a City Council trying to win favor with the people, trying to do the right thing to protect the people, but probably more of a symbolic gesture than a real gesture. - Peter Andersen



What we're doing here is largely symbolic. But it tells everyone that we've got to help. We've got to do better. - David Stern



What was new was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just physically cause the highest buildings in Manhattan to collapse; they also destroyed an icon in the household imagery of the American nation. - Jurgen Habermas



What they will try to do is get symbolic victories. Symbolism is important to them. They have little else. But they will strike, I believe, at centers of media, of financial, of American power, of American culture; and that is where we should place our bet. - James T. Walsh



What it might just do is move whatever gauging is going on back to the supplier or the refinery. If it has any positive effects, they are probably more symbolic than real. - Peter Andersen



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