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“The first bill that President Obama signed into law was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. I think it says something about his priorities that the first bill he put his name on has my name on it too. As he said that day with me by his side, "Making our economy work means making sure it works for everyone."”

Thinking Firsts Mean Said Law Names Sides President Pay Economy Fairs Bills Priorities President Obama

Author:Lilly Ledbetter

“A nuclear Iran is a - a dramatic and - and devastating potential threat to the world and to America. And - and all our efforts should be focused on making that our first priority or keeping them from having that nuclear capacity our first priority.”

World Should Firsts America Effort Capacity Threat Focused Nuclear Priorities Dramatic Iran Nuclear Iran

Author:Mitt Romney

“The movies are not my first priority - the theater is.”

Firsts Theater Priorities

Author:Kevin Spacey

“The first joint priority of the churches of any city should be that of making it hard for people to go to hell from that city.”

People Should Firsts Hard Church Cities Hell Priorities Joints Go To Hell

Author:David Shibley

“You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to live within the conditions and principles they define. Instead, we've elevated the economy above ecology.”

Firsts Would Be Asks Principles Economy Conditions Findings Priorities Ecology

Author:David Suzuki

“The welfare of our children is our main concern, and their best interests are our first priority.”

Firsts Children Interest Concern Our Children Priorities Welfare

Author:Eddie Murphy

“The first priority of humankind in this era is to establish an effective system of world law that will assure peace with justice among the peoples of the world.”

World Firsts Law Justice Priorities Eras Humankind

Author:Walter Cronkite

“Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new forms of literacy required in the twenty-first century. We wish to see a century where every child is able to read and to use this skill to gain autonomy.”

“If you align your priorities in such a way that puts people first, everything begins to make more sense.”

People Ifs Way Firsts Priorities

Author:Chalene Johnson

“Truth has anciently been called the first casualty of war. Money may, in fact, have priority.”

Firsts May War Facts Priorities Casualties

Book:Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went

Source: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went

“on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals”

Firsts Order Individual Design Priorities Realization Consideration Derivatives

Book:World Design Science Decade: Phase 1 Document 2

Source: World Design Science Decade: Phase 1 Document 2

“It was not a choice of writing or not writing. It was a choice of loving my life or not loving my life. To keep writing was always a first priority.... I worked probably 25 years by myself.... Just writing and working, not trying to publish much. Not giving readings. A longer time than people really are willing to commit before they want to go public.”

People Want Giving Writing Trying Years Firsts Choices Reading Willing Priorities Commit Publish

Author:Mary Oliver