“Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty for good.” PeopleHelpingCommunityPovertyPolicyEssentialsLiftsEmpoweringActivistAdvancingMarginalized Author:Michael Franti
“President Reagan, Jack Kemp and other advocates of supply-side economics understood that pro-growth tax, spending and economic policies were essential to America's long-term economic and fiscal health.” LongAmericaSidesGrowthPresidentTermEconomicPolicyTaxesEssentialsUnderstoodEconomicsSpendingLong TermEconomic PolicyPresident ReaganSupply Side Economics Author:Bob Beauprez
“There is too great a tendency (perhaps encouraged by popular journalism) to deal with the dramatic moments, forgetting that these are not always the most significant moments. ... To find the significant rather than the dramatic features of industrial controversy, of a disagreement in regard to policy on board of directors or between managers, is essential to integrative business policies.” MomentsForgetDealsBusinessPolicyDirectorsEssentialsRegardSignificantTendenciesJournalismManagersFeaturesBoardsDramaticControversyDisagreementBoard Of DirectorsSignificant Moments Book:Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s Source: Mary Parker Follett--prophet of management: a celebration of writings from the 1920s
“One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.” WorldFirstsPoliticalNationsPolicyEssentialsCooperation Author:Arthur Henderson
“An essential criterion for any humane immigration policy is that it should allow families to remain together. Whether that means letting the entire family migrate together, or allowing a caregiver to travel back and forth across the border, it should make it easier for workers to be with their families instead of harder.” ShouldMeanTogetherPolicyEasierEssentialsHarderWorkersImmigrationBordersAllowingHumaneCriteriaBack And ForthCaregiversImmigration PolicyMigrate Author:Jody Heymann
“It's naive and even irresponsible for a grownup today to get her or his information about foreign policy and war and peace exclusively from the administration in power. It's essential to have other sources of information, to check those against one's own common sense, and to form your own judgment as to whether we ought to go to or persist in war.” WarTodayFormCommonInformationPolicySourceOughtEssentialsJudgmentChecksCommon SenseAdministrationForeign PolicyPersistNaiveIrresponsibleGrownups Author:Daniel Ellsberg
“The essential task of Canadian statesmanship is to discover the terms on which as many as possible of the significant interest groups of our country can be induced to work together in common policy.” CountryTogetherTermInterestCommonGroupsPolicyEssentialsTasksSignificantOur CountryWorking TogetherStatesmanshipInterest Groups Author:Frank Underhill
“I chose to write about food: food is inherently political, but it's also an essential part of people's real lives. It's where the public and private spheres connect. I wanted to show readers that the larger politics of war and economics and U.S. foreign policy are inextricably bound to the supposedly trivial details of our everyday lives.” PeopleWritingWarRealShowsWantedPoliticalPolicyReaderEssentialsEconomicsEverydayBoundsDetailsReal LifeSpheresForeign PolicyEveryday Life Author:Annia Ciezadlo
“Family reunification has been an essential aspect of these policies.Many of those who are brought in, in terms of families, have become actively involved. They open small stores, play a significant role in the economy. The families and the importance of family unity are extremely important.” Has BeensImportantPlayTermRolesEconomyPolicyInvolvedEssentialsAspectImportanceUnityStoresSignificantImportance Of FamilyReunification Author:Edward Kennedy
“That was an exception within the [Barack] Obama administration's economic policy, a crisis that he inherited from the previous administration, and felt it was essential to carry through on.” FeltEconomicPolicyEssentialsCrisisAdministrationBarackExceptionEconomic Policy Author:Judy Woodruff
“The link between domestic policy and international affairs is essential: We cannot say we care about domestic issues and we leave international politics, and the opposite is wrong as well. Both are connected and should be addressed together.” ShouldWellsCareTogetherIssuesPolicyEssentialsOppositesAffairInternationalConnectedLinksInternational AffairsDomestic Policy Author:Tariq Ramadan
“You don't have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system - a private system including media, intellectual opinion forming magazines and the participation of the most highly educated sections of the population. Such people ought to be referred to as "Commissars - for that is what their essential function is - to set up and maintain a system of doctrines and beliefs which will undermine independent thought and prevent a proper understanding and analysis of national and global institutions, issues, and policies".” PeopleTruthBeliefUnderstandingOpinionClassIssuesMediaPolicyOughtEssentialsIntellectualFunctionIndependentInstitutionsIncludingPopulationDoctrineEducatedMagazinesPropagandaAnalysisSubtleControlledParticipationSectionsIndependent Thought Author:Noam Chomsky
“I think we need a very, very serious effort, primarily through tax policy to provide incentives and encouragement for people to save and invest and expand their businesses and to create more jobs. The kind of thing we did in the early Reagan years, 30 years ago. I think that's essential.” PeopleThinkingNeedsYearsKindJobsEffortPolicySeriousTaxesEssentialsYears AgoEncouragementIncentives Author:Dick Cheney