“Campaign finance and ethics reform only works if it curtails all special interest groups equally and does not carve out any exceptions to benefit one party or another. 'Pay to play' reform was passed to limit the influence of big spending contractors over the public officials from whom they are trying to obtain work.” IfsTryingDoePlayBigsInterestPartyPayGroupsInfluenceSpecialLimitsBenefitsEthicsSpendingCampaignsFinanceReformOfficialsExceptionSpecial InterestsContractorInterest GroupsPublic OfficialsCampaign FinanceSpecial Interest Groups Author:Thomas Kean, Jr.
“A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment, but with long term benefits.” LongBigsLife IsTermSecretBenefitsEntertainmentLong TermEntertaining Author:Orrin Woodward
“People look at me in many ways. They've said, 'The guy has no regard for money.' That is not true. I have had regard for money. It depends on who's saying that. Some people worship money as something you've got to have piled up in a big pile somewhere. I've only thought about money in one way, and that is to do something with it. I don't think there's a thing I own that I will ever get the benefit of except through doing things with it. I don't even want the dividends from the stock in the studio, because the government's going to take it away. I'd rather have that in (the company) working.” PeopleThinkingWayWantLooksSaidBigsGovernmentGuyCompanyDependsBenefitsWorshipRegardStudiosOne WayLook At MeDividends Author:Walt Disney
“I'm a big believer in education. If people learn the truth, they'll see the benefit if they have gender neutral policies.” PeopleIfsBigsPolicyBenefitsGenderBeliever Author:Brigid Schulte
“I do think that there is a big difference between family farms and agri-business, and one of the distressing things that I think has occurred is with consolidation of farm lands. You've seen large agri-businesses benefit from enormous profits from existing farm programs, and I think we should be focusing most of those programs on those family farmers.” ThinkingShouldBigsDifferencesLandBenefitsProgramProfitEnormousFarmsFarmersAgricultureDistressingConsolidationFamily Farms Author:Barack Obama
“The Escalation programmers come from a completely different background, and the codebase is all STL this, boost that, fill-up-the-property list, dispatch the event, and delegate that. I had been harboring some suspicions that our big codebases might benefit from the application of some more of the various “modern” C++ design patterns, despite seeing other large game codebases suffer under them. I have since recanted that suspicion.” DifferentBigsMightSufferingGamesSeeingModernEventsDesignBenefitsPropertyPatternsVariousListsBackgroundsDespiteApplicationSuspicionProgrammersBoostDelegatesDifferent BackgroundsEscalation Author:John Carmack
“I think both sides [China and United States] should work hard to build a new type of relationship between big powers. The two sides should cooperate with each other for a win-win result in order to benefit people from the two countries and the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldShouldTwoCountryHardStatesBigsOrderWinningSidesUnitedResultsUnited StatesHard WorkTypeBenefitsChinaBoth SidesTwo SidesWin WinTwo Countries Author:Xi Jinping
“There's no job too big to benefit from a small town person's perspective, I discovered, just as there's no town too small for thinking big.” ThinkingPersonsBigsJobsPerspectiveBenefitsTownsSmall TownThink Big Author:Unita Blackwell
“I think that markets classically fail in cases where there are public goods that provide benefits that people cannot capture. The big debate is how big these public goods are, where they exist, things of that sort.” PeopleThinkingBigsCasesFailingBenefitsDebateGoodsCapture Author:Peter Thiel
“At every stage of understanding the universe better, the benefits to civilisation have been immeasurable. None of those big leaps were made with us knowing what was going to happen.” Has BeensMadeBigsHappensUniverseUnderstandingKnowingStageBenefitsLeapCivilisationUnderstanding The Universe Author:Brian Cox
“The model we established was to give creative people complete creative freedom in exchange for betting on themselves, so they work for the minimums you're allowed to work for, and if the movies work in a big way, everyone does very well. If the movies don't, nobody loses too much money. The benefit to doing all the movies low budget is we can tell different types of stories and take creative risks. The Purge would have been irresponsible to do for $20M, but to do it for $3M makes sense.” PeopleIfsWayGivingWellsDoeHas BeensDifferentStoriesBigsLosesCreativeToo MuchRiskTypeBenefitsModelsLowsMake SenseBudgetsMinimumIrresponsibleCreative PeopleBettingCreative Freedom Author:Jason Blum
“I think the benefit of being a writer is that I'm looking for the subtext on the page, because all good writing has subtext. And as a writer, you look at the big scope of things, the big story, rather than just your individual story line, because I think it's important to know what you're in and how you fit into it.” ThinkingKnowsWritingLooksImportantStoriesBigsIndividualLinesFitBenefitsPagesScopeGood WritingSubtext Author:Richard Dormer
“The current health care takeover proposals feature a crucial payoff to Big Labor - a golden exemption from any tax on union members' generous health care benefits. The friends and patrons of Obama may be making out like bandits. But for everyone else, the Democrats' ideological bankruptcy comes at a nauseatingly steep price.” MayBigsCareTaxesMembersBenefitsLaborUnionsDemocratCurrentsGoldenHealth CareFeaturesGenerousCrucialProposalIdeologicalBankruptcySteepPatronPayoffBanditsExemptionTakeovers Author:Michelle Malkin
“When Congress votes for all sorts of benefits, without voting for enough taxes to pay for them, they get the support of those who have been promised the benefits, without getting grief from the taxpayers. It's strictly win-win as far as the welfare-state politicians are concerned. But it is strictly lose-lose, big-time, for the country, as deficits skyrocket.” Has BeensCountryStatesEnoughBigsWinningLosesGriefPaySupportPoliticianTaxesBenefitsConcernedVoteCongressWelfareVotingDeficitTaxpayersWelfare StateWin Win Author:Thomas Sowell
“Liberals fostered the subsidies that have converted so many citizens to helplessness. They have made high taxes and big government a way of life. They have corrupted the politicians into believing that in order to be elected to office, they must dispense benefits.” WayBelieveMadeBigsGovernmentOrderCitizensPoliticianTaxesOfficeBenefitsHelplessnessBig GovernmentSubsidiesHigh Taxes Author:James Cook
“Having come into contact with a civilization which has over-emphasized the freedom of the individual, we are in fact faced with one of the big problems of Africa in the modern world. Our problem is just this: how to get the benefits of European society - benefits that have been brought about by an organization based upon the individual - and yet retain African's own structure of society in which the individual is a member of a kind of fellowship.” WorldKindHas BeensFactsProblemBigsIndividualModernCivilizationMembersBenefitsOrganizationStructureContactModern WorldFellowshipBig ProblemsJulius Author:Julius Nyerere
“You would think that anyone on a major label would be doing something, but when you speak of major label that means something to maybe a big pop star that might be getting some sort of benefit from the major. But we still don't get anything.” ThinkingMeanStillsBigsMightWould BeSpeakStarsBenefitsMajorsPopsLabelsPop Stars Author:Lester Bowie
“There's one big difference between me and the others - I won't take every last dime of the surplus and spend it on tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthy. I'll use the bulk of the surplus to secure Social Security far into the future to keep our promise to the greatest generation.” UseBigsLastsSocialDifferencesCuttingGenerationsSecurityPromiseTaxesBenefitsSecureWealthySocial SecurityDimesTax CutsSurplusGreatest Generation Author:John McCain
“Aside from that i’m an introvert and i’m a quiet person. The benefit of that is I listen. It’s not like my mouth is open and I broadcast everything and i’m drowning everyone out. When I’m listening to the incredible artists I work with and i’m hearing their specialised advice on what they would do with something then we can, all together, as a big collaborative group, all work together to achieve something together.” PersonsBigsTogetherArtistGroupsAdviceListeningQuietBenefitsMouthsIncrediblesHearingIntrovertDrowningQuiet Person Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson
“By construction, the world of big data is siloed and segmented and segregated so that successful people, like myself - technologists, well-educated white people, for the most part - benefit from big data, and it's the people on the other side of the economic spectrum, especially people of color, who suffer from it. They suffer from it individually, at different times, at different moments. They never get a clear explanation of what actually happened to them because all these scores are secret and sometimes they don't even know they're being scored.” PeopleKnowsWorldWellsDifferentSometimesMomentsBigsSufferingSidesWhiteSecretSuccessfulClearHappenedEconomicColorBenefitsEducatedDataExplanationScoreConstructionSuccessful PeopleSpectrumDifferent TimesWell Educated Author:Cathy O'Neil
“People expect those in authority to take on big problems and to solve them. We had an opportunity to reform Social Security in a way that would have protected people's benefits and created a solvent system. Younger workers would be confident that the money they were putting into the system would be available to them when they retired. It was a missed opportunity. I regret that.” PeopleWayProblemBigsWould BeOpportunitySocialSecurityRegretAuthorityBenefitsWorkersAvailableSolveReformProtectedSocial SecurityRetiredI RegretBig ProblemsBe ConfidentMissed Opportunity Author:George W. Bush
“Democracy will be transformative. It will help other societies realize the benefits of freedom. Nothing's as big as that, in terms of peace.” HelpingBigsTermRealizingDemocracyBenefitsHelping Others Author:George W. Bush
“R&D generally has been a bipartisan thing, because in the IT space, in the medical space, the U.S., the benefits to ourselves and the world and our economy have been very, very clear. I'm hopeful we can make a very strong case there. Energy is actually harder; it takes more time to get a product, but if you do it's a very, very big market and the constraints of doing that in a clean way are more obvious all the time.” IfsWorldWayHas BeensBigsEnergyStrongSpaceCasesEconomyClearProductsBenefitsHarderCleanObviousMedicalHopefulMore TimeVery StrongConstraintsBipartisan Author:Bill Gates
“That's one of the benefits of working on big budget films. You work with people who have a lot of experience and you get to learn a lot.” PeopleBigsFilmBenefitsBudgets Author:Liev Schreiber
“The one benefit of having done all kinds of movies as an actor is, you learn the pros and cons of being tempted to do a really big movie because it costs a lot of money.” KindDoneBigsActorsCostBenefitsAll KindsLots Of MoneyTemptedBig MoviePros And Cons Author:Ben Affleck
“Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big sprawling shopping malls. Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.” HumansBigsSeemsHuman BeingsCarDevelopmentBenefitsFriendlyShoppingAutomobileMallsPedestriansBusier Author:Bill Bryson
“You don't believe that your friend could ever do anything great. You despise yourself in secret, even – no, especially – when you stand on your dignity; and since you despise yourself, you are unable to respect your friend. You can't bring yourself to believe that anyone you have sat at table with, or shared a house with, is capable of great achievement. That is why all great men have been solitary. It is hard to think in your company, little man. One can only think 'about' you, or 'for your benefit', not 'with' you, for you stifle all big, generous ideas.” ThinkingMenBelieveLittlesHas BeensIdeasHardBigsHouseSecretCompanyAchievementBenefitsCapableDignityTablesDon't BelieveGenerousSatGreat MenDespiseSolitaryGreat AchievementLittle Man Author:Wilhelm Reich