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“That's what we want to do here at Johnson Space Center. I think what we have always brought to NASA and brought to the country is trying to push the boundaries, trying to go to the next level.”

Thinking Want Trying Country Next Space Levels Boundaries Johnson Nasa Next Level

Author:Ellen Ochoa

“Harvard produces leaders. People with Harvard degrees go on to become administrators in high-level positions in state educational departments and in public schools around the country.”

People Country States School Levels Leader Position Produce Goes On Degrees Educational Department Public School Harvard High Level Administrators

Author:Christina Hoff Sommers

“The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our level of prosperity, it is time for them to catch up to our level of openness.”

War Country States Levels United United States Caught Prosperity Protection Accepted Recovery Posts Openness Caught Up Post War

Author:Lawrence Summers

“When you have a country that's been accustomed to government spending at a certain level, it is really hard to ratchet it back.”

Country Hard Government Certain Levels Spending Accustomed Government Spending Ratchets

Author:Mike Lee

“There are a number of steps that we can take to reinvigorate and rebuild the economic and the physical infrastructure of our country and then to rebuild us, frankly, on a spiritual level.”

Country Spiritual Levels Numbers Steps Economic Our Country Infrastructure

Author:Carol Moseley Braun

“During the past two decades, inflation has fallen to a low level in major industrial countries.”

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Author:Toshihiko Fukui

“At the moment, the 4 percent of us in this country produce a quarter of the world's carbon dioxide - once you look at maps of rising sea levels and spreading mosquitoes, you realize that we've probably never figured out a way to hate our neighbors around the world much more effectively.”

World Way Looks Country Moments Hate Realizing Levels Sea Produce Percent Neighbor Around The World Rising Global Warming Maps Quarters Carbon Mosquitoes Carbon Dioxide

Author:Bill McKibben

“With support jobs moving to China and India, it's not surprising that English-speaking countries' top frustration revolves around the difficulty of understanding customer service representatives. However, even if the level of customer service is exceptional, the extent to which poorly-understood accents trump quality of service speaks to English-speaking customers' growing intolerance of non-native speech, more so than in other countries.”

“The IEA member countries will exercise flexibility in re-establishing their emergency stock levels through 2006, noting the need to take into account seasonal demand and the possibility of higher than expected refinery maintenance.”

Needs Country Levels Possibility Higher Exercise Demand Members Accounts Expected Flexibility Emergencies Maintenance Refinery

Author:Claude Mandil

“There's a rising level of frustration with the disconnect between where the vast majority of conservatives are in this country and how Congress is behaving. There's going to be a wake-up call sooner or later.”

Country Levels Wake Up Majority Congress Rising Frustration Sooner Or Later Wake Up Call

Author:Pat Toomey

“Since I achieved something, running has exploded in my country. For me sometimes it is difficult even to know who the athletes are who are competing at the highest level. There are thousands.”

Knows Country Sometimes Running Difficult Levels Highest Athlete Competing

Author:Haile Gebrselassie

“When you expand the civil-rights struggle to the level of human rights, you can then take the case of the black man in this country before the nations in the UN. You can take it before the General Assembly. You can take Uncle Sam before a world court. But the only level you can do it on is the level of human rights. Civil rights keeps you under his restrictions, under his jurisdiction. Civil rights keeps you in his pocket.”

“Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output... A steady rate of monetary growth at a moderate level can provide a framework under which a country can have little inflation and much growth. It will not produce perfect stability; it will not produce heaven on earth; but it can make an important contribution to a stable economic society.”

“We do believe the current Ukrainian authorities are illegitimate. They cannot be legitimate as they do not have a national mandate for running the country, which speaks for itself. At the same time, we do not refuse to deal with them. We stay in touch at the ministerial level.”

Believe Country Running Speak Levels Deals Authority Currents Refuse Mandates Ukrainian

Author:Vladimir Putin

“The horn of dilemma of energy politics is what really drives concern about this energy in this country, at the gut level for most people, is high gas prices. And if you really want to fight global warming and try to reduce our carbon emissions, the cleanest, easiest, most rational way to do it would to make the price of gas even higher through very stiff gas prices.”

People Ifs Way Want Trying Country Fighting Energy Levels Higher Concern Rational Global Warming Guts Gas Carbon Horns Dilemma Emissions Gas Prices Carbon Emissions

Author:Rich Lowry

“There are many examples of companies and countries that have improved their competitiveness and efficiency by adopting open source strategies. The creation of skills through all levels is of fundamental importance to both companies and countries.”

Country Levels Company Example Creation Source Skills Importance Fundamentals Strategy Efficiency Adopting Competitiveness Open Source

Author:Mark Shuttleworth

“In democratic countries as well as elsewhere most of the branches of productive industry are carried on at a small cost by men little removed by their wealth or education above the level of those whom they employ.”

Men Wells Littles Country Politics Wealth Levels Economy Industry Cost Democratic Branches Liberalism Productive Elsewhere Democratic Country

Book:Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II

Source: Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II

“With this new stupid Supreme Court ruling, secret money can come in on an unlimited level from corporations. Nobody knows where it comes from. That distorts the political situation in our country tremendously. Most of that money is spent on negative advertising that is tearing down the character and reputation of your opponent, and it works, although most American people say, "We don't like negative advertising," it works.”

“I don't believe that expressing your opinion, regardless of who is there, is being rude. And it's a shame that we've reached a level in our country where we think that you don't have the right to put your opinion out there.”

Thinking Believe Country Levels Opinion Shame Don't Believe Our Country Rude Being Rude

Author:Benjamin Carson