“Harvard's Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.” WorldGovernmentSchoolStepsCareersPolicyTelevisionFellowsPressesCorporatePublishingHarvardPublic Policy Book:Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them Source: Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
“We're going to have to invest in the American people again, in tax cuts for the middle class, in health care for all Americans, and college for every young person who wants to go. In businesses that can create the new energy economy of the future. In policies that will lift wages and will grow our middle class. These are the policies I have fought for my entire career.” PeopleWantPersonsCareYoungEnergyGrowsClassCareersEconomyCuttingMiddlePolicyCollegeTaxesHealth CareLiftsMiddle ClassWagesTax CutsNew Energy Author:Barack Obama
“The disassociation between inner belief and outer behaviour allowed many people to enjoy a sense of retaining their inner decency while at the same time not risking any loss of livelihood, any compromise over career ambitions, let alone any potentially more sanctions; hence never revealing any signs of disagreement or openly showing anything less than apparently full commitment to the regime and its policies” PeopleBeliefEnjoyLossCareersPolicyAmbitionCommitmentCompromiseRegimesBehaviourRevealingDecencyDisagreementSanctionsLivelihoodRetaining Author:Mary Fulbrook
“Without seeing any reason to believe that women are, on the average, so strong physically, intellectually, or morally, as men, I cannot shut my eyes to the fact that many women are much better endowed in all these respects than many men, and I am at a loss to understand on what grounds of justice or public policy a career which is open to the weakest and most foolish of the male sex should be forcibly closed to women of vigor and capacity.” MenShouldBelieveReasonFactsEyeStrongSexWomenJusticeLossCareersSeeingPolicyCapacityMalesAverageEqualityFoolishVigorPublic Policy Author:Thomas Huxley
“I understand that I have become a liability to the very institutions and policies to which I have dedicated my career and, indeed, my entire adult life.” LifeCareersPolicyAdultsInstitutionsDedicatedLiability Author:John Kitzhaber