“In 1977, when I started my first job at the Federal Reserve Board as a staff economist in the Division of International Finance, it was an article of faith in central banking that secrecy about monetary policy decisions was the best policy: Central banks, as a rule, did not discuss these decisions, let alone their future policy intentions.” FirstsJobsDecisionPolicyIntentionInternationalFinanceBoardsDivisionArticlesReservesStaffEconomistBankingSecrecyMonetaryFederal ReserveCentral BanksMonetary PolicyCentral Banking Author:Janet Yellen
“If we are really anxious not to have nuclear weapons in Iran, the first thing is to call an international conference on abolishing all nuclear weapons, including Israeli nuclear weapons.” IfsFirstsWeaponsIncludingInternationalNuclearIranAnxiousNuclear WeaponsConferencesIsraeli Author:Bruce Kent
“The twenty first century will require a re-affirmation and re-definition of our alliances and international organisations.” FirstsCenturyTwentiesInternationalDefinitionsAffirmationAlliancesOrganisation Author:Chuck Hagel
“First, we could have defied both of them and could have gone to war against both of these nations for this violation of international law and interference with our neutral rights.” FirstsWarLawNationsGoneRightsInternationalViolationInterferenceInternational Law Book:Fighting Liberal: The Autobiography of George W. Norris Source: Fighting Liberal: The Autobiography of George W. Norris
“DeFrantz's study...is not the first book about the protean Ailey, who was born in hardscrabble Texas in 1931 and died in 1989 after creating close to 80 works. But it is perhaps the most comprehensive, combining biography, criticism, the analysis of dance criticism, and a sort of corporate history, siting the now firmly established Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in the international cultural landscape.” FirstsBookBornStudyCreatingCriticismDiedTheaterInternationalLandscapeCorporateAnalysisTexasBiographiesComprehensiveCombining Author:Alvin Ailey
“Through systematic terror, through indoctrination, through systematic manipulation of stimulus, reward, and punishment, we can today break man and convert him into brute animal... The first step toward survival is therefore to make government legitimate again by attempting to deprive it of these powers... by international action to ban such powers.” MenFirstsGovernmentTodayActionAnimalStepsBreakSurvivalRewardsInternationalTerrorPunishmentManipulationFirst StepsAttemptingStimulusBrutesBansSystematicIndoctrinationReward And Punishment Author:Peter Drucker
“The two most important things that can be done to promote democracy in the world is first, to bring moral clarity back to world affairs and second, to link international policies to the advance of democracy around the globe.” WorldFirstsTwoImportantDoneLiteratureMoralDemocracyPolicyImportant ThingsAffairInternationalClarityLinksGlobesWorld Affairs Author:Natan Sharansky