“In case anyone needs reminding, it was the relentless drive of the tourism industry and kowtowing State Department bureaucrats that led to the Bush-era Visa Express Program, which relaxed visa policies, eliminated in-person consulate interviews and opened the door to the 9/11 hijackers.” NeedsPersonsStatesCasesDoorsPolicyIndustryProgramErasInterviewsDepartmentRelaxedRelentlessTourismRemindingBureaucratsVisaTourism Industry Author:Michelle Malkin
“I am flattered to have been the woman to have opened the door for female rockers to be accepted into the mainly male industry.” Has BeensDoorsIndustryFemaleMalesAcceptedFlatteredRockers Author:Suzi Quatro
“If you use a philosophy education well, you can get your foot in the door of any industry you please. Industries are like the blossoms on a tree while philosophy is the trunk - it holds the tree together, but it often goes unnoticed.” IfsWellsPhilosophyUseTogetherDoorsTreeFeetIndustryPleaseUnnoticedTrunksPhilosophy Of Education Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“For twenty years it had been generally known that an insidious Lobby was maintained in Washington to influence legislation and executive action on behalf of vested interests. ... The lobby was a creature of darkness. It worked behind closed doors and whispered in corners. This ancient industry was one form of invisible government.” YearsGovernmentActionFormPoliticsInterestBusinessBehindsKnownDarknessDoorsInfluenceIndustryCreaturesTwentiesAncientCornersInvisibleExecutivesLegislationBehalfInsidiousClosed DoorsVested InterestsBehind Closed Doors Author:Margaret Case Harriman
“The climate of Ohio is perfect, considered as the home of an ideal republican people. Climate has much to do with national character.... A climate which permits labor out-of-doors every month in the year and which requires industry to secure comfort--to provide food, shelter, clothing, fuel, etc.--is the very climate which secures the highest civilization.” PeopleYearsCharacterHomePerfectDoorsMonthsIndustryComfortCivilizationRepublicanHighestIdealsLaborClimateSecureFuelEtcPermitClothingsShelterOhio Author:Rutherford B. Hayes
“When the natural gas industry was knocking on my door, they were knocking on the door of millions of people. And that became something that Americans really needed to focus on.” PeopleNaturalMillionsFocusDoorsIndustryNeededGasKnockingNatural Gas Author:Josh Fox
“I think artists like Justin Bieber really opened up a door for younger artists to be respected in the industry. I really like what he did.” ThinkingArtistDoorsIndustryJustin Author:Jackson Guthy
“I know artists that have tried for a long time in the Christian industry and then they were on a TV show and all of the sudden the doors swing wide open. Christians want to connect with things that are mainstream.” KnowsWantLongShowsChristianArtistDoorsTvsIndustryLong TimeWideMainstreamSwingsTv Shows Author:Anthony Evans
“In the industry there's this whole mentality of working with someone who can open the door for you, but my whole thing is that I like my work to speak for itself. So I still do have that same mentality.” StillsWholeSpeakDoorsIndustryMentality Author:Cakes da killa
“At the beginning, my ambition was never to break down doors. It was just to earn tuition for myself and work in an industry where women hadn't been allowed or invited. That's all I wanted to do, not thinking that I would make waves, change minds, excite people, incite people, turn on people, repulse people.” PeopleThinkingMindWantedTurnsBreakDoorsIndustryAmbitionWaveInvitedBreaking DownTurn-onMy AmbitionTuition Author:Pam Grier
“Fate handed Barack Obama the best of all political gifts - a dyspeptic, surly, spiteful opposition on the one hand and very unpopular financiers on the other - and he wouldn't come out punching, name names, or go for the jugular. It was as if while getting mugged by guys with brass knuckles, he turned the other cheek. He even jeopardized his pledge to preserve women's rights under Roe v. Wade in order to get a health care bill written by the corporate lapdog Max Baucus and the gang of revolving door mercenaries he hired to write a bill friendly to industry.” IfsWritingHandsCarePoliticalGuyOrderNamesFateRightsWrittenDoorsIndustryBillsBarackHealth CareCorporatePreservesOppositionFriendlyCheeksWomens RightsGangPledgeMaxBrassWadeKnucklesPunchingRevolvingSpitefulRoe V WadeFinanciersSurlyRevolving Doors Author:Bill Moyers
“As much as people try to pit black entertainers against one another, because of the underlying feeling that there can't be two of us, or, all of us can't do well. That's what hurts rap the most, the fact that none of us are fighting to protect the door of those who run our industry. It's enough money for all of us.” PeopleTryingWellsTwoEnoughFactsFeelingsRunningFightingBlackHurtDoorsIndustryProtectRapPitsEntertainersTwo Of Us Author:David Banner
“The global financial crisis is a great opportunity to showcase and propagate both causal and moral institutional analysis. The crisis shows major flaws in the way the US financial system is regulated and, more importantly, in our political system, which is essentially a bazaar of legalized bribery where financial institutions can buy themselves the governmental regulations they want, along with the regulators who routinely receive lucrative jobs in the industry whose oversight had formerly been their responsibility, the so-called revolving-door practice.” WayWantShowsJobsPoliticalOpportunityResponsibilityMoralPracticeDoorsIndustryMajorsCrisisInstitutionsFinancialAnalysisFlawsRegulationPolitical SystemsGreat OpportunityFinancial CrisisOversightBriberyRevolvingRegulatorsFinancial SystemShowcaseFinancial InstitutionsRevolving DoorsBazaars Author:Thomas Pogge