“Bernie Sanders talks about socialism in Scandinavia, and he's correct to point to the huge victories the working class has won there through struggle, such as socialized medicine, free college education, and paid family leave. But if you talk to working people in Sweden or Norway today, you will find out that many of those past gains have been eroded and some virtually eliminated, including massive under-funding of healthcare and other public services and a return to for-profit systems that are unaffordable to working class people.” PeopleIfsHas BeensTodayPastClassStruggleCollegeHugeReturnVictoryGainsPaidMedicineIncludingProfitSocialismMassiveHealthcareWorking ClassFundingPublic ServiceSwedenCollege EducationNorwaySocialized MedicineScandinavia Author:Kshama Sawant
“A lot of people in college go astray because they choose something that doesn't really, really connect to them. And if it doesn't connect to you, you're not able to put in that 10,000 hours that people talk about. You don't have the focus. And you start off in life on the wrong foot and you never get back.” PeopleIfsAbleHoursFocusFeetCollegeGet Back Author:Robert Greene
“You start out with Mad magazine, and you go right through the sort of black humor of Lenny Bruce, Lord Buckley, Mort Sahl, Paul Krassner... If you put Lenny together with Mad magazine and run it through the brain of a college student, you get National Lampoon.” IfsRunningTogetherBlackBrainLordStudentsCollegeMadMagazinesCollege StudentsBlack HumorNational Lampoon Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“I'm going to try to get everybody who makes less than $125,000 in their family, which is the vast majority of people, to be able to go to a public college or university totally tuition-free. And if you make more than that, debt-free.” PeopleIfsTryingAbleCollegeMajorityUniversityDebtTuitionDebt Free Author:Hillary Clinton
“My understanding of the Electoral College is that they have the right to vote for who they want. So they should vote their conscience, and if their conscience leads them that way, they should follow their conscience.” IfsWayWantShouldUnderstandingCollegeConscienceVoteRight To VoteElectoral College Author:Barbara Boxer
“The Electoral College is a project that calls on their judgment. If we don't like it, we can talk about how to eliminate it. I'm not quite convinced we should eliminate it completely. I think it's important to have a final check be somebody other than the Supreme Court. But given that it's there, we should take it seriously. And taking it seriously says they should exercise their judgment according to the moral values, the principles that are part of our constitutional tradition today. And those principles say equality.” IfsThinkingShouldImportantTodayValuesGivenMoralPrinciplesCollegeExerciseJudgmentProjectsTraditionCourtFinalsConvincedSupremeChecksSupreme CourtMoral ValuesElectoral College Author:Lawrence Lessig
“The state sovereignty is key here in the Electoral College - and if you're going to start divvying up the power of each state's elections, you are destroying state sovereignty.” IfsStatesCollegeKeysElectionDestroyingSovereigntyElectoral College Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I never went to college. I think about it a lot. I can't watch a game without thinking where I would have been if I had ga head and went to college and pursued my career.” IfsThinkingHas BeensI CanGamesCareersWatchesCollegePursued Author:Rakim
“I believe that if we have to pay 100 percent for our college tuition, and then we get into the workplace, and we're only given 70 percent of our counterparts' salaries, then we shouldn't have to pay but 70 percent of our college tuition. Maybe that'll stop the bullshit.” IfsBelieveGivenI BelievePayCollegePercentBullshitWorkplaceSalaryCounterpartsTuitionCollege Tuition Author:Pam Grier
“I actually think it almost works the other way sometimes: making a college textbook, say, look really "user friendly" tends to also make it look less "serious," even if nothing changes other than the design treatment.” IfsThinkingWayLooksSometimesDesignCollegeSeriousTreatmentFriendlyUsersThings ChangeTextbooksUser Friendly Author:Michael Bierut
“The Electoral College said that [Donald Trump] is the president, he's the president.But as a president, you also have to build. And if I'm sitting there and part of his team and I go look, we're probably not going to win the next election with 46 percent of the vote, so people like John Lewis and all these other groups, you have to start building bridges toward, this week was a disaster because he is burning bridges, not building them.” PeopleIfsLooksSaidNextWinningPresidentGroupsWeekTeamBuildingCollegeTrumpPercentSittingVoteElectionDisasterBurningBridgesElectoral CollegeBuilding BridgesBurning Bridges Author:Jason Chaffetz
“Imagine if you had genuine, high-quality early-childhood education for every child, and suddenly every black child in America - but also every poor white child or Latino [child], but just stick with every black child in America - is getting a really good education. And they're graduating from high school at the same rates that whites are, and they are going to college at the same rates that whites are, and they are able to afford college at the same rates because the government has universal programs. So now they're all graduating.” IfsChildrenGovernmentAbleSchoolAmericaBlackWhitePoorQualityImagineChildhoodCollegeHigh SchoolProgramUniversalSticksRateGenuineGraduatesLatinoHigh QualityGood EducationEarly ChildhoodGoing To CollegeGraduating High SchoolEarly Childhood Education Author:Barack Obama
“If we didn't have the Electoral College there would have been no George W. Bush presidency. Algore would have been elected. The Democrats have not gotten over that, and they never will get over the recount, the aftermath of that election in 2000. They are still animated by it today. It is a significant portion of the rage and anger they carry around with them every day, so they want to get rid of it.” IfsWantHas BeensStillsTodayCollegeElectionDemocratRageSignificantPortionsPresidencyGet OverAnimatedAftermathElectoral CollegeRage And Anger Author:Rush Limbaugh
“White folks are the luckiest people: Finally a black president and he's a behaved one. Went to the best schools, best colleges, never raises his voice. I ran for president in 1968. I tell (audiences) if I won, I would have dug up the Rose Garden and planted watermelon!” PeopleIfsSchoolBlackPresidentVoiceWhiteAudienceCollegeGardenRaisesRoseFolksRanRose GardenBest SchoolBest College Author:Dick Gregory
“You all would be really shocked, if you were dropped back down into when I went to college, by the narrowness of the opinions you could get just by reading newspapers and magazines and watching TV.” IfsWould BeReadingOpinionCollegeTvsNewspapersMagazinesShockedWatching TvReading Newspapers Author:William Kristol
“My biggest advice to an official who wants to pursue college or come into the NFL is to make sure you're doing it for the right reasons. If you're coming in just because you want to be the female in the NFL, then I think you're doing it for the wrong reasons. If you're doing it because you want to be the best official, then pursue it.” IfsThinkingWantReasonAdviceCollegeFemalePursueNflOfficialsBeing The BestWrong Reasons Author:Sarah Thomas
“If you look at virtually all of the issues of importance to the people of America - issues like making public colleges and universities tuition-free - Hillary Clinton is now on record for doing that for people making $125,000 a year or less. You know what? That is pretty revolutionary. That will transform the lives of millions of families in this country. That's what Clinton stands for.” PeopleIfsKnowsYearsLooksCountryAmericaMillionsIssuesRecordsCollegeImportanceClintonUniversityRevolutionaryTuitionColleges And Universities Author:Bernie Sanders
“If jazz education in our colleges were free to all it would provide thousands of good jobs in the music industry which has been taken over by corrupt millionaires and billionaires.” IfsHas BeensJobsTakenCollegeIndustryJazzGood JobMillionaireBillionaireMusic Industry Author:Bernie Sanders
“If we can make sure that that young boys starting at the age of three or four already knows their colors and their letters and are getting good preschool, and by the time they get into school they've got a good teacher and are getting the support that they need and are able to keep up with their classwork, that is going to do more to reduce the incarceration rate at the same time, obviously, as it increases the college enrollment rate.” IfsKnowsNeedsAgeAbleSchoolYoungThreeBoysSupportTeacherFourCollegeColorLettersIncreaseRateStartingGood TeacherIncarcerationPreschoolEnrollment Author:Barack Obama
“In the 1990s - the period of the greatest escalation of the drug war - nearly 80 percent of the increase in drug arrests was for marijuana possession, a drug less harmful than alcohol or tobacco and at least, if not more, prevalent in middle class white neighborhoods and college campuses as it is in the 'hood.” IfsWarWhiteClassMiddleCollegePeriodsDrugPercentIncreasePossessionAlcoholMiddle ClassNeighborhoodMarijuanaTobaccoHoodCampusWar On DrugsCollege CampusEscalation Author:Michelle Alexander
“People just want to see something happen that is positive for them in their lives. If you're struggling to pay your student-loan debts, or if you've got a kid trying to go to college and don't think you're going to be able to afford it, it really matters whether you get help or not. If you don't have health care or you have insurance but the insurance company won't pay for what your doctor says you need, then what's the point of people arguing in Washington? Why don't you give me some help to fix this problem? I will work with anybody if I think we can actually produce results for people.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantNeedsGivingTryingMatterHelpingProblemHappensCareKidsAbleResultsPayCompanyStruggleStudentsProduceCollegeDoctorsGive MeDebtArguingThings HappenHealth CareLoanInsurance CompaniesStudent Loan Author:Hillary Clinton
“In Burma, we have only about four percent of the people in our country who are (college) graduates. So can we not value the majority? No, we must. If we just value the graduates, then does that mean our people are not valuable? I don't believe that. What is important is we need right people in right positions.” PeopleIfsNeedsBelieveMeanDoeImportantCountryValuesFourPositionCollegePercentMajorityDon't BelieveValuableOur CountryGraduatesBurmaCollege Graduates Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“If you would've asked me about getting a pilot's license before 2005, I'd say you were crazy. After I graduated college, a fighter pilot asked me if I wanted to go up on a flight in a single-engine plane. I always had a fear about being in an airplane, but I took this opportunity to go up on my first flight in a single-engine rather than a big commercial plane I was accustomed to. I was hooked and made a commitment to become a pilot. I wanted to motivate others to not let fear stand in the way of their opportunities.” IfsWayFirstsMadeBigsWantedOpportunityCrazyCollegeCommitmentFlightFighterPlanesEnginesPilotsAirplaneAccustomedLicenseHookedFighter Pilot Author:Jessica Cox
“I know people are really interested in everything that the celebrities are doing, even if you don't consider yourself a "celebrity." What always would drive me crazy is - I took ethics classes in college - and it always amazes me how there would blatantly be something that I did not say in quotation marks. If you're putting quotation marks around it, it better be exactly what that person said.” PeopleIfsKnowsPersonsSaidClassCrazyCollegeEthicsMarkQuotationsDrive Me CrazyQuotation Marks Author:Carrie Underwood
“People ask me a lot of questions and I don't always have the time to stop and talk, but I do a lot of email mentorship with college students. So if I meet a college kid during a motivational speech or something like that I'll stop and say, "I see you need help in this area. Here's my email. Let me help." So, it's just my way of giving back.” PeopleIfsWayNeedsGivingHelpingKidsAsksStudentsCollegeSpeechAreasLet MeMy WayAsk MeEmailGiving BackNeed HelpCollege StudentsMotivational Speech Author:Chrisette Michele
“I love being able to say a quick thanks to the man above for the music and the fact that we're even in this spot. If you'd told me this in college when I was sitting on a stool and playing for enchiladas and tips, I'd have bet everything against it.” IfsMenFactsAbleLove IsCollegeHe ManSittingSpotsThanksStoolsEnchiladas Author:Kenny Chesney
“The unemployment rate today for people with our-year college degrees is 4.1%, which is almost none. That's people switching jobs basically. That tells you that education is the only way up and the only way out. If that is the fact, then we've got to get more of it for more people.” PeopleIfsWayYearsFactsTodayJobsCollegeDegreesRateUnemploymentSwitchingCollege DegreeUnemployment Rate Author:Thomas Friedman
“I thought clarity of communication was the most important thing in writing, and if you really cared about getting your idea across, you would say it in the most straightforward way possible. Later, in college and grad school, I came to realize that language is a technology like any other, and that it's always evolving - clarity of expression is always evolving.” IfsWayWritingImportantIdeasSchoolLanguageRealizingTechnologyCollegeExpressionCommunicationImportant ThingsClarityEvolveStraightforwardGradGrad School Author:Elif Batuman
“One of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem and addressed the sixth-grade class. He looked out at that sea of faces and said, "If any of you wants to go to college, I will pay for it." When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can't understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?” PeopleIfsWantFirstsSaidI CanKidsSchoolFacesPayClassRolesSeaTearsCollegeModelsEastGenerousGradesWealthyRepublicRole ModelsBusinessmanElementary SchoolHarlemCitizenryFluffySixth Grade Author:Bette Midler
“If you are getting into coaching right out of college, you're not one of the coaches because you're not really, like, a coach yet. You're someone who's in limbo all the time. Navigating that is not easy. If you try to be too much like a player, then the coaches are like, You're not too serious about coaching. If you're going to be too much like a coach, the players are not going to confide in anything.” IfsTryingEasyToo MuchPlayerCollegeSeriousLike YouCoachesCoachingLimbo Author:Geno Auriemma
“I'm 64, but I act like I'm still 12. I go to schools. At colleges, they come out in droves, they almost scare me. I think it's just to see if I'm still alive. After I work them out - and it's not easy - I sit them down and we have a serious talk. Are they eating? Working on their body? I can say things parents won't say. No matter where I go, I talk to each one individually after I teach. They tell me things like, 'I'm starving, guys like girls thinner.' I give them concrete advice about self-image and self-worth.” IfsThinkingGivingStillsI CanSelfMatterBodySchoolGuyGirlEasyParentTeachAliveAdviceCollegeSeriousEatingDown AndSelf WorthScareConcreteStarving Author:Richard Simmons
“To be honest, I wasn't crazy about the kind of poetry I found in high school English books. I didn't get really excited about poetry until I discovered Lorca in college. If it wasn't for surrealism, I'm not sure I'd have become so involved in poetry. I was attracted by the extravagant imagery and elements of fantasy. This was in the '70s and it seemed to fit the psychedelic mood of the times. I found it liberating.” IfsKindBookSchoolFoundFantasyCrazyHonestCollegeInvolvedFitElementsHigh SchoolExcitedMoodBeing HonestNot SureLiberatingImageryGet RealPsychedelicSurrealismExtravagantLorcaSchool English Author:Elaine Equi
“I would like to say that whites jumped right behind Malcolm X. They’re makin’ a book about him, it’s required readin’ in all colleges now, and they’re makin’ a movie about him, and projectin’ him as the leader and if you read his book and see the movie that’s comin’ out, it’ll make you hate Elijah Mohammed and the Muslims. Mainly, this is done to turn the black people against the real leader and I’d like to say that this is the way white people rule.” PeopleIfsWayBookRealDoneHateTurnsBlackWhiteBehindsLeaderCollegeBlack PeopleElijah Author:Muhammad Ali