“We Communists have got to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology. But we are going to continue massive military programs. . . (soon) we will be in a position to return to a much more aggressive foreign policy designed to gain the upper-hand.” NeedsHandsTechnologyMilitaryPolicyPositionReturnGainsProgramStringsMassiveCommunistAggressiveCapitalistForeign PolicyAgricultureUpper Hand Author:Leonid Brezhnev
“We gain the ability to rejoice under pressure through a carefully monitored training program directed by the Lord Himself.” AbilityLordTrainingGainsProgramPressureRejoiceUnder PressureTraining Programs Book:Insights on Romans Source: Insights on Romans
“Our government is committed to helping our young people develop the skills and training they need to succeed. Through our Summer Company program, students can launch a business, become employers, and gain an advantage in the highly competitive global economy - all while still in school.” PeopleNeedsStillsHelpingGovernmentSchoolYoungCompanyEconomyStudentsSucceedSkillsSummerTrainingGainsAdvantageProgramCommittedEmployersGlobal Economy Author:Brad Duguid
“From the starch-heavy 'food pyramid' to ethanol fuel, the government adopts programs not because they are right but because they gains votes, money or political power or solve problems that politics has already created, such as silos full of subsidized wheat or a shortage of gasoline due to the maze of controls on refining.” ProblemGovernmentPoliticalGainsProgramVoteHeavySolveDuesFuelPyramidsWheatShortagePolitical PowerMazesGasolineRefiningEthanol Author:Robert Prechter
“He that expects to quantify in dollars the gains that will accrue to a company year by year for a program for improvement of quality expounded in [Out of the Crisis] will suffer delusion. He should know before he starts that he will be able to quantify only a trivial part of the gain.” KnowsShouldYearsAbleSufferingQualityCompanyGainsProgramCrisisDollarsImprovementDelusion Author:W. Edwards Deming
“I'll give you a simple formula for straightening out the problems of the United States. First, you tax the churches. You take the tax off of capital gains and the tax off of savings. You decriminalize all and tax them same way as you do alcohol. You decriminalize . You make gambling legal. That will put the budget back on the road to recovery, and you'll have plenty of tax revenue coming in for all of your social programs, and to run the army.” WayGivingFirstsStatesProblemRunningSocialChurchSimpleUnitedUnited StatesTaxesGainsProgramArmyAlcoholRecoverySavingPlentyBudgetsGamblingFormulasRevenueSavingsCapital GainsSocial Programs Author:Frank Zappa
“I want to invest in community colleges, training programs, and high-quality apprenticeships that help people gain the skills they need for the jobs of the future.” PeopleWantNeedsHelpingJobsCommunityQualityCollegeSkillsTrainingGainsProgramHigh QualityApprenticeshipCommunity CollegeTraining Programs Author:Hillary Clinton
“The short-range involves the long-range. Immediate steps have to be taken to reeducate our people into the, a more real view of political, economic, and social conditions in this country, and our ability in, in a self- improvement program to gain control politically over every community in which we predominate, and also over the economy of that same community as here in Harlem. Instead of all the stores in Harlem being owned by white people, they should be owned and operated by black people.” PeopleShouldLongRealSelfCountryPoliticalSocialBlackCommunityAbilityWhiteViewsStepsEconomyTakenEconomicConditionsSelf ImprovementGainsProgramStoresImprovementRangeBlack PeopleHarlemSocial Conditions Author:Malcolm X
“Democracy doesn't mean much if people have to confront concentrated systems of economic power as isolated individuals. Democracy means something if people can organize to gain information, to have thoughts for that matter, to make plans, to enter into the political system in some active way, to put forth programs and so on. If organizations of that kind exist, then democracy can exist too. Otherwise it's a matter of pushing a lever every couple of years; it's like having the choice between Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola.” PeopleIfsWayYearsKindMeanMatterPoliticalChoicesIndividualDemocracyPlansEconomicInformationCoupleHeroGainsProgramOrganizationActivePushingHeroicIsolatedOrganizePolitical SystemsLeversEconomic PowerCoca ColaPepsi Author:Noam Chomsky
“Unions have been the best anti-poverty program that actually worked and did not cost the government a dime. But as unions grow smaller- not stronger- our ability to act as an economic mechanism to distribute the gains of our work and raise all workers' wages and benefits up is disappearing.” Has BeensGovernmentGrowsAbilityPovertyEconomicCostBenefitsGainsProgramStrongerRaisesUnionsWorkersDisappearMechanismWagesDimes Author:Andy Stern
“Marijuana legalization's income may help fund education, prevention and treatment programs for harder drugs. What's clear is that the four-decade-old U.S.-backed war on drugs is not working, and that it's producing tens of thousands of dead across the hemisphere, without significant gains in reducing consumption. Experimenting with new weapons to weaken the cartels may be better than doing nothing.” MayWarHelpingClearFourDrugWeaponsGainsProgramHarderDecadesSignificantIncomeTreatmentFundMarijuanaConsumptionDoing NothingReducingWar On DrugsPreventionHemisphereCartelsMarijuana Legalization Author:Andres Oppenheimer