“You've got the right - you've got a wonderful person with Sheila Bair, most of the viewers have never heard of Sheila Bair. [She] has taken eight percent of the deposits in the United States and seamlessly moved those over to sound institutions which in turn have gotten more capital, ended up, it's been a magnificent job.She'll never get a golden parachute or any severance pay or anything. She's done a great job. We've got some great public servants. We have I think the right people in there to get the job done, and then they need more tools.” PeopleThinkingNeedsPersonsStatesDoneJobsTurnsSoundUnitedPayUnited StatesTakenWonderfulHeardPercentToolsInstitutionsMovedEightGoldenServantMagnificentViewersGreat JobDepositsParachutesPublic ServantsGet The Job DoneWonderful PersonSheila Author:Warren Buffett
“I lose confidence in other people, all kinds of institutions.” PeopleKindLosesInstitutionsAll KindsConfidence In Others Author:Warren Buffett
“I think you'll have plenty of scrutiny as how the money's invested. I mean, just like the RFC. When the RFC operated, people knew which institutions they were buying preferred stock in. And it worked very well.” PeopleThinkingWellsMeanInstitutionsPlentyBuyingScrutinyPreferred Stock Author:Warren Buffett
“Can you know you can have institutions that put curbs on that in various ways, and actually what the banks, you know, they have various capital ratios and that sort of thing, but the banks got around them, I mean, they set up sieves and that sort of thing just to get more leverage. People love leverage when it's working. I mean, it's so easy to borrow money from a guy at X and put it out at X.” PeopleKnowsWayMeanGuyEasyInstitutionsVariousRatiosCurb Author:Warren Buffett
“Once we link up and network, there will be new institutions, new beginnings, and a change in the economy because capitalism is destroying many people's lives. It's just one leap to think in a different way.” PeopleThinkingWayDifferentEconomyCapitalismInstitutionsDifferent WaysJust OneLeapLinksDestroyingNew Beginnings Author:Mairead Corrigan
“The mission [of institution] won't change. It will continue to be what it is: to spread the practice of deep listening and introduce it to people, to do workshops and retreats and certification programs and so on.” PeoplePracticeListeningProgramInstitutionsSpreadMissionsIntroducingRetreatWorkshopsDeep Listening Author:Pauline Oliveros
“From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country. So, who killed ? That's another question. Actually, the terrorists have been killing our people since the beginning of this crisis two years and a half ago, and the Syrian people wanted the government and the state institutions and the army and the police to defend them, and that's what happened.” PeopleYearsFirstsHas BeensTwoCountryStatesGovernmentWantedPresidentDecisionHalfHappenedArmyPoliceCrisisInstitutionsKillingTerroristTwo Years Author:Bashar al-Assad
“We wouldn't have withstood for two years and a half. We would have disintegration of the army, disintegration of the whole institution in the state ; we would have disintegration of Syria if that was the case. It can't be tolerated in Syria. I'm talking about the normal reaction of the people. If it's not a national army, it cannot have the support, and if it doesn't have the public support of every sect, it cannot do its job and advance recently. It cannot. The army of the family doesn't make national war.” PeopleIfsYearsTwoWarStatesWholeJobsHalfTalkingCasesSupportNormalArmyInstitutionsReactionsTwo YearsSyriaSectsDisintegration Author:Bashar al-Assad
“I don't know how you bridge that contradiction, but I felt that Barack Obama was sincere. It didn't feel like a line to me. You know, it felt like him reverting back to what was in his bones and that's, you know, optimism and a deep belief in, you know, American institutions and the American people.” PeopleKnowsFeelsBeliefFeltLinesKnow HowOptimismInstitutionsBonesBarackBridgesContradictionSincereReverting Author:Ta-Nehisi Coates
“People rise and fall on the basis of the makings of institutions.” PeopleFallBasesInstitutionsRise And Fall Author:John Henrik Clarke
“When people laugh at your institutions and convince you that you have to adopt theirs - adopt their dress, adopt their taste in food - you are a prisoner to those people.” PeopleLaughingTasteDressesInstitutionsConvincePrisoner Author:John Henrik Clarke
“American democracy faces a massive challenge. I don't think it is a certainty that we're headed toward Putin's Russia, as some commentariat does. But people need to mobilize and build up small-d democratic institutions to prepare against that eventuality.” PeopleThinkingNeedsDoeFacesChallengesDemocracyInstitutionsDemocraticRussiaCertaintyMassivePutinAmerican Democracy Author:Jonathan Chait
“We have not always been in sync on every issue in terms of our core values, in terms of her integrity, her truthfulness, her thoughtfulness, [Angela Merkel] doing her homework, knowing her facts, her commitment to looking out for the interests of the German people first, but recognizing that part of good leadership on behalf of the nation requires engaging the world as a whole, and participating effectively in multilaterally institutions, I think she's been outstanding.” PeopleThinkingWorldFirstsWholeFactsValuesNationsTermInterestKnowingIssuesIntegrityCommitmentInstitutionsCoreEngagingRecognizingBehalfOutstandingHomeworkTruthfulnessParticipatingGood LeaderCore ValuesThoughtfulnessAngelaGood LeadershipSync Author:Barack Obama
“Keep in mind that, when I came in, we had had a crisis that was the worst we've seen since the 1930s, and working with people like Chancellor Merkel, working with the G-20 and other institutions internationally, we were able to stabilize the financial system, stabilize the US economy and return to growth.” PeopleMindAbleGrowthEconomyWorstReturnCrisisInstitutionsFinancial1930sFinancial System Author:Barack Obama
“When you see a Donald Trump and a Bernie Sanders, very unconventional candidates, have considerable success, then obviously there's something there that's being tapped into; a suspicion on globalization, a desire to reign in it's excesses, a suspicion of elites and governing institutions that people feel may not be responsive to their immediate needs. And that sometimes gets wrapped up in issues of ethnic identify or religious identity or cultural identity, and that can be a volatile mix.” PeopleNeedsFeelsMaySometimesDesireReligiousIssuesIdentityTrumpInstitutionsCandidatesExcessElitesSuspicionReignGlobalizationGoverningUnconventionalCultural IdentityReligious Identity Author:Barack Obama
“There are very few institutions that give prizes to people who may not have got to be number one, but are possibly better at coaxing the best out of others.” PeopleGivingMayNumbersInstitutionsPrize Author:Desmond Tutu
“Many flagship state universities have wonderful digital libraries that are accessed by people around the world. In future, if not current, budget crises, trustees, board members, and administrators may wonder why these state institutions - with an articulated primary clientele of students, faculty, and staff members and a secondary clientele of all citizens of the state - should be spending resources on a digital library that is used by many people beyond the primary and secondary service populations.” PeopleIfsWorldShouldMayStatesUsedWonderWonderfulStudentsCitizensMembersResourcesCrisisInstitutionsLibraryUniversityPopulationCurrentsSpendingAround The WorldPrimariesBudgetsBoardsDigitalFacultyStaffAdministratorsTrusteesBoard MembersStaff Members Author:Tom Peters
“I think at every moment in the last probably 100 years, when the institutional church had the opportunity to do the right thing, they did the wrong thing. They're a dying institution in many parts of the world because they refuse to ordain women or married people. And now they're a dying institution because some of their members did enormous harm to young people and instead of responding aggressively with humility, and with love, and with the confession of wrongdoing, they tried to spin it as though they were a political party, and that's just deplorable.” PeopleThinkingWorldYearsMomentsLastsYoungPoliticalOpportunityChurchPartyDyingHumilityMembersMarriedInstitutionsRefuseHarmEnormousRight ThingConfessionPolitical PartiesWrong ThingsRespondingWrongdoing Author:Anna Quindlen
“This is where I think policies do need to be somewhat race-specific, is making sure that institutions are not discriminatory. So you've got something like the FHA [Federal Housing Administration], which was on its face a universal program that involved a huge mechanism for wealth accumulation and people entering into the middle class.” PeopleThinkingNeedsFacesWealthRaceClassMiddlePolicyHugeInvolvedProgramUniversalInstitutionsAdministrationMiddle ClassMechanismEnteringHousingAccumulation Author:Barack Obama
“We really have to work hard to remind people even though this is far away, that's it's probably the most generous thing governments have ever come together to do. Since World War II, this new institution is the only one that's emerged and is saving all these lives.” PeopleWorldWarHardGovernmentTogetherHard WorkInstitutionsSavingGenerousWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiFar AwayWorld War I Author:Bill Gates
“Nothing is more important for transgender people than to have access to excellent health care in trans-affirmative environments, to have the legal and institutional freedom to pursue their own lives as they wish, and to have their freedom and desire affirmed by the rest of the world. This will happen only when transphobia is overcome at the level of individual attitudes and prejudices and in larger institutions of education, law, health care, and kinship.” PeopleWorldImportantHappensCareLawDesireIndividualWishLevelsAttitudeEnvironmentOvercomingPrejudiceInstitutionsAccessPursueHealth CareExcellentTransgenderTransAffirmativeKinship Author:Judith Butler
“We want the National Intelligence, we want the Police, we want the Scorpions, any other institutions, the tax people, and so on, the totality of these bodies, to get together.” PeopleWantBodyTogetherTaxesPoliceInstitutionsTotalityGet TogetherScorpionsNational Intelligence Author:Thabo Mbeki
“The State is a professional apparatus that sets itself apart from the people and apart from the institutions that the people themselves create. It's a monopoly on violence that manages and institutionalizes social activities. The people are perfectly capable of managing themselves and creating their own institutions.” PeopleStatesSocialViolenceActivityCreatingCapableInstitutionsManageMonopoly Author:Murray Bookchin
“I find it perfectly consistent for libertarians to operate on the municipal or county level, where they are close to the people and where they may have a party or a federation that is made up of the social institutions, the residual social institutions that still remain, over and beyond what the State has managed to preempt and absorb.” PeopleMayMadeStillsStatesSocialLevelsPartyInstitutionsLibertarianConsistentCountyFederationSocial InstitutionsResidual Author:Murray Bookchin
“We're not free because other people are nice, maybe other people aren't nice that day. We're free because we expect the institutions of government to work impersonally. That we expect people in government to understand they don't work for the president or the prime minister, they work for the government. And the government is always there.” PeopleGovernmentPresidentNiceInstitutionsMinistersPrimePrime Minister Author:David Frum
“Democracy takes work. That's the thing we're really finding out, that, you know, in many ways, you know, the past two decades we've taken for granted all of the extraordinary achievements of the post-war generation. You know, building this global alliance structure that has kept the peace across the North Atlantic since World War II. Building all of these institutions, building all this remarkable technology. And people have privatized. You know, you can now, you don't have to go outdoors much, the whole world comes to you.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayTwoWarWholePastTechnologyDemocracyTakenGenerationsBuildingAchievementFindingsInstitutionsStructureExtraordinaryDecadesWhole WorldGrantedPostsWar Of The WorldsRemarkableWorld War IiWorld War IAlliancesTaken For GrantedPost WarExtraordinary Achievement Author:David Frum
“[Two of the most unpopular presidential candidates selected by the two parties in history] indicates that there is a lot of cynicism out there. It indicates that the corrosive nature of everything from talk radio to fake news to negative advertising has made people lack confidence in a lot of our existing institutions.” PeopleMadeTwoPartyNewsNegativeInstitutionsRadioAdvertisingPresidentialFakeCandidatesCynicismSelectedPresidential CandidateTalk Radio Author:Barack Obama
“Once you have an equalization instrument in place, as you have in Canada, there arise tremendous bureaucratic values - bureaucratic rent so to speak - in maintaining the system that you have. To shift to a system that paid the transfers directly to individuals, by having differential rates of federal income tax levied to adjust to provincial fiscal capacities, which would be my preference, you would have huge bureaucratic opposition. People would try to protect the rents they have in the current system of institutions.” PeopleTryingWould BeValuesIndividualSpeakHugeProtectTaxesCapacityPaidInstitutionsInstrumentsRateCurrentsIncomeAriseCanadaOppositionPreferenceMaintainingTransfersIncome Tax Author:James M. Buchanan
“Some people promote the idea that there can be two marriages, co-existing side by side, one heterosexual and one homosexual, without any adverse consequences. The hard reality is that, as an institution, marriage like all other institutions can only have one definition without changing the very character of the institution. Hence there can be no coexistence of two marriages.” PeopleTwoIdeasHardCharacterRealitySidesConsequenceInstitutionsDefinitionsHomosexualAdverseCoexistence Author:Lance B. Wickman
“We do need great change in Burma. We are trying to build a new society, a society where basic human rights are respected, and where our people enjoy all the benefits of democratic institutions.” PeopleNeedsTryingHumansEnjoyRightsBenefitsInstitutionsDemocraticHuman RightsGreat ChangeBurmaBasic Human Rights Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“It is one of my targets to show people that a lot of things that are part of their landscape - that people are universal - are the result of some very precise historical changes. All my analyses are against the idea of universal necessities in human existence. They show the arbitrariness of institutions and show which space of freedom we can still enjoy and how many changes can still be made.” PeopleHumansMadeStillsIdeasShowsEnjoySpaceResultsExistenceUniversalInstitutionsHistoricalLandscapeAnalysisTargetPreciseHuman ExistenceHistorical Change Author:Michel Foucault
“Then another thing, now this is mainly for our interest about Tibet, our struggle. Whole struggle depend on within person. For dangerous. Foolish! Not for this only institution or even not only for Buddhist dogma, but before national sort of right, our right. So therefore this struggle must carried by people themselves.” PeoplePersonsWholeInterestStruggleDangerousDependsInstitutionsFoolishBuddhistDogmaTibet Author:Dalai Lama
“Therefore we have to make effort through well through every corner, media people, education sort of institution, and family, parents, everywhere. It is our common goal, common interest promote more compassion toward the world.” PeopleWorldWellsParentGoalInterestCommonEffortCompassionMediaInstitutionsCornersCommon InterestsCommon Goal Author:Dalai Lama
“What drives me is a sense of urgency. We live in frightening times. Progress towards gender equality and vital battles to end discrimination on grounds such as race, age, sexuality and disability are stalling and in some places, reversing. This is happening because of the collapse of trust in nearly all public institutions, and in particular in politics and media, and the inescapable feeling that the current system isn't working for most people.” PeopleEndsFeelingsAgeRaceProgressMediaParticularBattleHappeningsInstitutionsCurrentsGenderSexualityDiscriminationDisabilityCollapseFrighteningUrgencyGender EqualitySense Of UrgencyStalling Author:Catherine Mayer
“Policies are designed to undermine working class organization and the reason is not only the unions fight for workers' rights, but they also have a democratizing effect. These are institutions in which people without power can get together, support one another, learn about the world, try out their ideas, initiate programs, and that is dangerous. That's like a referendum in Greece. It is dangerous to allow that.” PeopleWorldTryingIdeasReasonTogetherFightingClassSupportRightsEffectsDangerousPolicyProgramOrganizationInstitutionsUnionsWorkersWorking ClassGreeceGet TogetherInitiateReferendumsWorkers Rights Author:Noam Chomsky
“I just think we all distrust people and institutions much more than we once did. And we tend to think elites run everything and are looking out for themselves at our expense. Add it up and you get LOTS more conspiracy theorists.” PeopleThinkingRunningInstitutionsAddExpensesConspiracyElitesDistrustTheorists Author:Christopher Michael Cillizza
“There is no doubt that the Fed's large-scale asset purchases have caused major increases in a number of asset prices in the economy. This is especially true of mortgage backed securities and corporate bonds, and quite possibly of equities as well. For those people and institutions holding those things, the run up in prices has been a wealth bonanza.” PeopleWellsHas BeensRunningWealthNumbersEconomyDoubtSecurityMajorsIncreaseInstitutionsScalesCorporateNo DoubtFedsAssetsEquityMortgageLarge ScaleCorporate Bond Author:Gerald Epstein
“I believe in the institution loyalty and love, to stay with someone in good and hard times. I don't think a piece of paper or anything else can force you to do that. For many people get marry is super important, for me, the important thing is finding someone.” PeopleThinkingBelieveImportantHardForceI BelievePiecesPaperFindingsAnd LoveInstitutionsImportant ThingsI Believe InLoyaltyHard TimesFinding SomeoneLove And Loyalty Author:Enrique Iglesias
“If someone were to say seriously, "I'm divine," she'd have to be locked up. There are lots of people in mental institutions going around saying "I'm God." But because I'm funny about it, they haven't locked me up yet. And I don't give myself airs, either.” PeopleIfsGivingAirHavensDivineInstitutionsLockedLocked Up Author:Bette Midler
“We're used to institutional-maintenance Catholicism, in which the institution ticks along by its own inertia and people are "born" into the Church. Francis knows that is over and done with: "Kept" Catholicism, whether "kept" by legal establishment or by cultural habit, has no future.” PeopleKnowsDoneUsedBornChurchHabitInstitutionsCatholicismEstablishmentMaintenanceInertiaTick Author:George Weigel
“We really have to think about aging because women are living longer than men. More of the people who need care are women. A lot of them are living alone, with no one to care for them, or they're shunted into institutions. I would like to see a sensible aging policy more like what the Nordic countries have. They're cutting back those programs, but there you can still have in-home nursing care. You don't have to rely on your children. I personally don't want to be a burden on my daughter.” PeopleThinkingMenWantNeedsChildrenStillsCountryHomeCareCuttingPolicyDaughterProgramOur ChildrenInstitutionsAgingBurdenYour ChildrenRelyMy DaughterSensibleNursingLiving AloneNordic Author:Martha C. Nussbaum
“One of the things that neoliberalism does is, it relies on flexible workforces who are hired and fired at will and who are basically disposable labor. You can use them. You can get rid of them. They have no rights; they have no security. Their lives and well-being are made and unmade at the whim of those who are exercising the calculus. So, instead of looking at the institution and objecting to that kind of organization, people just go, "I'm a failure;"; "I'm not working hard enough"; or, "I'm not as smart as the next person."” PeopleWellsKindPersonsDoeMadeHardEnoughUseNextRightsSecurityExerciseSmartLaborOrganizationInstitutionsWell BeingRelyFlexibleWhimWorkforceCalculusDisposableNeoliberalism Author:Judith Butler
“One of my biggest regrets was the fact that as an institution and an international community we could not stop the war in Iraq. That really was very difficult and very painful. Every fibre in my body felt it was wrong. I spoke to leaders, we spoke to people, we tried... we couldn't stop it... and we see the results.” PeopleWarFactsBodyFeltDifficultCommunityResultsLeaderRegretInstitutionsInternationalIraqPainfulSpokesInternational Community Author:Kofi Annan
“I think young people are recognizing the power of institutions, and we have to really dismantle a lot of the stigma and shame, culturally, but we also have to change things in terms of how government and institutions deal with this.” PeopleThinkingGovernmentYoungTermDealsShameInstitutionsRecognizingStigma Author:Cecile Richards
“From arts, to literature, to science, to the founding of Christian institutions, all of that has its roots in a biblical worldview, but when you fail to recognize that it's the systemic reality of the greatest civilization in the history of humanity, you can become apathetic about what you actually now have. We have something that generations of people did not have.” PeopleArtRealityChristianHumanityLiteratureFailingGenerationsCivilizationRootsInstitutionsBiblicalFoundingWorldviewApatheticBiblical Worldview Author:Hank Hanegraaff
“Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.” PeopleLawPerfectMarriageFitHarmonyInstitutionsSlaverySegregationLaws Of NaturePerfect Harmony Author:Jack Kingston
“I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!” PeopleShouldPoliticalReligionReligiousInstitutionsHypocrisyPolitical Institutions Author:Dalai Lama
“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.” PeopleCountryGovernmentPoliticalPoliticsGrowsFreedomUnited StatesRevolutionExerciseInstitutionsRevolutionaryRebellionBelongingWearyUnited States Of America4th Of JulyProperty RightsIndependence DayAmerican GovernmentConstitution Of The United StatesInauguralConstitutional RightsUs ConstitutionIndependence Day Patriotic4th Of July InspirationalConstitutional GovernmentAmerican ConstitutionAmending The ConstitutionJuly 4Us Independence DayGrowing Weary Author:Abraham Lincoln
“Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.” PeopleMindLightEducationLibertySecurityDangerousObjectsOughtInstitutionsFreedom And LibertyFreedom LibertySchools And EducationEncroachmentCrafty Book:James Madison's Source: James Madison's
“True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.” PeopleWayDiesLiteratureKnowingMassInstitutionsTrue Education Author:Bryant H. McGill