“I am running for president as a Democrat. And if elected, not only do I hope to bring forth a major change in national priorities, but let me be frank, I do want to see major changes in the Democratic Party.” IfsWantRunningPresidentPartyMajorsLet MeDemocraticDemocratPrioritiesFrankDemocratic PartyMajor Change Author:Bernie Sanders
“I want to say something, and it may sound harsh, not to you, but to the American people. In a sense, in my view, the business model of Wall Street is fraud. It's fraud. I believe that corruption is rampant, and the fact that major bank after major bank has reached multi billion dollar settlements with the United States government when we have a weak regulator system tells me that not only did we have to bail them out once, if we don't start breaking them up, we're going to have to bail them out again, and I do not want to see that happen.” PeopleIfsWantBelieveMayStatesFactsGovernmentHappensI BelieveSoundUnitedViewsUnited StatesStreetsWallMajorsModelsWeakDollarsCorruptionBillionsFraudHarshSettlementState GovernmentBusiness ModelsBailUnited States GovernmentRegulators Author:Bernie Sanders
“I think, while it is true that the Hillary Clinton and I voted differently on the war in Iraq, what is important is that we learn the lesson of the war in Iraq. And that lesson is intrinsic to my foreign policy if elected president, is the United States cannot do it alone. We cannot be the policeman of the world. We are now spending more I believe than the next eight countries on defense. We have got to work in strong coalition with the major powers of the world and with those Muslim countries that are prepared to stand up and take on terrorism.” IfsThinkingWorldBelieveImportantWarCountryStatesNextStrongI BelievePresidentUnitedUnited StatesPolicyLessonsMajorsPreparedClintonIraqEightTerrorismSpendingDefenseForeign PolicyPolicemenCoalitions Author:Bernie Sanders
“If you don't have to pay for everything you're providing, why in the world should you cut the cost of it, when it's gonna be covered? That's what's happened to the health care system. Why cut costs when somebody's gonna subsidize whatever you charge. But there's another reason why tuitions are never gonna come down on major American universities, and that's because they are the training ground of American liberalism and radicalism. And they have to make jobs there attractive to the professors and the teachers who are gonna indoctrinate these young skulls full of mush.” IfsWorldShouldReasonCareJobsYoungPayTeacherCuttingHappenedCostMajorsTrainingUniversityHealth CareReason WhyAttractiveLiberalismCoveredProfessorsProvidingSkullsTuitionRadicalismHealth Care SystemAmerican Universities Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I mean, on virtually every major issue before this country that is the natural purview of the federal government, it's important to have some specificity about what you're going to do if you want to be the president. And so I agree that, up until this point, it hasn't been a huge factor.” IfsWantMeanImportantCountryGovernmentPresidentNaturalIssuesHugeMajorsAgreeFactorsFederal GovernmentSpecificity Author:Marco Rubio
“The first thing you have to do is understand what success looks like. And to understand what success looks like you have to understand the intent. If you understand that intent is to make sure the sea lines are secure, then suddenly bombing Kosovo makes sense, because you don't want Serbia to reemerge as a major power.” IfsWantFirstsLooksLinesSeaLike YouMajorsSecureMake SenseBombingSerbiaKosovo Author:George Friedman
“The major labels, they roll with whatever is making money. I don't know if R&B turned into making banjo music and it sounded like blue grass, they'll buy it if it's selling.” IfsKnowsMajorsBlueSellingLabelsMaking MoneyGrassBanjos Author:Warryn Campbell
“I think from a major-label perspective, if you were on the flip side of things and that's the world you were used to working in, your interpretation could be, "Oh, they're having trouble writing songs," when really it's like, "No, I'm not ready to write songs, I don't want to write a song right now, if I did write a song, it would be forced."” IfsThinkingWorldWantWritingWould BeUsedSongSidesTroubleReadyPerspectiveRight NowMajorsLabelsInterpretationFlipWriting SongsNot Ready Author:Beth Ditto
“If you hear a C-major chord with an equal temperament, you've heard it a million times before and your brain accepts it. But if you hear a chord that you've never heard before, you're like, "huh."” IfsBrainAcceptingMillionsHeardEqualMajorsTemperamentChords Author:Aphex Twin
“If you can do something that doesn't rely on a major melody but still sounds immediate rather than being obtuse and devoid of anything to catch onto, that's great.” IfsStillsSoundCan DoMajorsRelyMelodyCan Do Something Author:Alexis Taylor
“If you want to know who your friends are, have a major failure.” IfsKnowsWantMajorsJailWho Your Friends Are Author:John Cleese
“If you choose to see everything as a miracle, then where you are right now is perfect. There is nowhere to run to; there is nothing else to do except be in this moment and allow what is to be. From that place of radical acceptance, major change can happen. The first step in any transformational experience is acceptance and surrender to the present moment, the way that it is. From that place we have the awareness, humility and power to change what is.” IfsWayFirstsMomentsHappensRunningPerfectInspiringStepsAwarenessAcceptanceHumilityRight NowMajorsYogaMiracleSurrenderRadicalWell BeingPresent MomentWhere You AreYou ChooseFirst StepsPower To ChangeMajor ChangeRadical Acceptance Author:Mastin Kipp
“If we do our homework right, never again should an asteroid that can do damage on the ground impact the Earth. We're living in a time-with our technology-we have the capability to eliminate that major shaper of evolution . . . the evolution of life on this planet.” IfsShouldEarthCan DoTechnologyPlanetsEvolutionFutureMajorsImpactDamageCapabilityPredictionsHomeworkAsteroidsEvolution Of Life Author:Rusty Schweickart
“I was never satisfied if I didn't win a major. I mean, not that year or any major I played, I wasn't satisfied unless I won it. But that's what our goals are. I'm sure that these guys' goals are the same as mine. They want to win every time they play. If you don't win, then you're not happy, obviously.” IfsWantYearsMeanPlayGuyWinningGoalMinesMajorsSatisfiedNot Happy Author:Jack Nicklaus
“If I were to go the major route, again, attention would probably be the first and foremost. You want attention, you want support, you want to be treated properly, and I don't wanna have to go anywhere and teach people how to treat me. As far as money, acclaim and fame, those things are a plus - accolades - they're all great.” PeopleIfsWantFirstsAttentionTeachSupportFameMajorsTreatsTreatedPlusRoutesSupport YouAccoladesAcclaim Author:Joe Budden
“I think as women, you know, if you are considered a pioneer in these things, you can get really distracted by these other things - you know, people's demands of you reflecting on your otherness. And for this white critic to say, "I don't understand why she doesn't do that" - and you're like, "It's because I'm running a show on a major network and I want the show to continue" - and to sort of guilt me.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWantShowsRunningWhiteDemandMajorsGuiltCriticsDistractedReflectingGet RealPioneersOtherness Author:Mindy Kaling
“Italy is one of the eight major industrial nations. What will happen if a G-8 country within the European Union goes bankrupt? Does anyone think Germany wouldn't be affected? Italy is one of our key markets.” IfsThinkingDoeCountryHappensNationsKeysMajorsUnionsEightGermanyAffectedEuropean Union Author:Martin Schulz
“If you look at Iraq and Afghanistan's situations, they are quickly becoming much like our reservations. They will have puppet governments funded and controlled by a U.S. Government that siphoned off their resources. You don't have to be an English major to read the writing on the wall; I am in here as a warning to others, just like those men who are in Guantanamo are a warning to others - if you stand up to us you face these same consequences.” IfsMenWritingLooksGovernmentFacesSituationWallBecomingMajorsConsequenceResourcesIraqControlledWarningAfghanistanPuppetsReservationsGuantanamoEnglish MajorWriting On The Wall Author:Leonard Peltier
“I have very deep concern about the legacy of the Rehnquist court and its efforts to restrict congressional authority to enact legislation by adopting a very narrow view of several provisions of the Constitution, including the commerce clause and the 14th Amendment. This trend, I believe, if continued, would restrict and could even prevent the Congress from addressing major environmental and social issues of the future.” IfsBelieveI BelieveSocialViewsEffortIssuesAuthorityMajorsConcernConstitutionCourtEnvironmentalIncludingCongressLegacyTrendsAmendmentsCommerceLegislationSocial IssuesProvisionVery DeepAdoptingClausesE Commerce14th Amendment Author:Dianne Feinstein
“It is people who are violent, rather than "religions"; and since we secularised our politics we have had two major world wars, the Holocaust, the Soviet Gulag, and the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki - none of which were inspired by religion. If we want to understand the dangers of our world, we can no longer accept the old received ideas.” PeopleIfsWorldWantTwoIdeasWarAcceptingDangerMajorsInspiredViolentWar Of The WorldsOur WorldSovietHolocaustHiroshimaHiroshima And NagasakiGulags Author:Karen Armstrong
“I'm beginning to think [Ted] Cruz had a good convention, that if [Donald] Trump goes down, Cruz is pretty well positioned to be the Republican major figure in four, six or even within two years.” IfsThinkingYearsWellsTwoFourFiguresTrumpRepublicanSixMajorsTwo YearsConventionsCruz Author:David Brooks
“Rap music and rap records used to always be like this: we get one or two shots to a piece cause it was a singles marketplace and when the major record companies saw that it could also handle the sales of the albums then they started to force everybody to expand their topics from 1 to about 10 and you gotta deliver 12 songs, so a lot of times if you took a person who wasn't really developed, and the diversity of trying say 12 different things, you know the companies were like "Cool! Say the same thing 12 different ways."” IfsKnowsWayTryingPersonsTwoDifferentUsedSongForceCausesCompanyRecordsSawsPiecesDiversityMajorsShotsAlbumsRapHandleDifferent WaysDifferent ThingsTopicsMarketplaceRecord CompaniesSinglesRap Music Author:Chuck D
“We wanted to see how access to care can be expanded and service quality can be improved when one uses a participatory approach to program development. We showed that major changes become possible if you work in a participatory manner, listen to local people, diagnose what the problems are, provide training and identify where there are opportunities for mobilizing local resources to take action. In time leaders from other municipalities expressed interest in replication and the project succeeded in expanding innovations to three other areas.” PeopleIfsUseProblemCareActionWantedThreeOpportunityInterestQualityLeaderDevelopmentProjectsApproachMajorsTrainingResourcesAreasProgramInnovationAccessLocalsExpandingMunicipalityMajor ChangeQuality ServiceReplication Author:Ruth Simmons
“I changed my major to English literature, which was on the advice of my father. I finally said, "You know, Dad, to heck with it: I'm just going to be an actor. But I'm going to go to school." And he said, "Well, if you're going to go to school, then major in English literature. Those are the tools you are going to be working with as a man who's going to be acting in English, one would assume."” IfsKnowsMenWellsSaidSchoolActorsFatherLiteratureActingAdviceChangedDadMajorsToolsAssumingEnglish Literature Author:Keith Carradine
“Many feminists in the academy and in the major women's groups are knocking down open doors. It's 2016, not 1950. But you wouldn't know that if you looked through a typical women's studies textbook or website.” IfsKnowsStudyDoorsGroupsMajorsFeministTypicalWebsiteAcademyKnockingTextbooks Author:Christina Hoff Sommers
“If you got a hit every third time that you went up to bat in the major leagues, you'd be the greatest hitter of all time. I think my average is a little better than that.” IfsThinkingLittlesMajorsThirdsAverageAll TimeLeagueBatsMajor LeagueThird Time Author:Brad Williams
“I think we've come to a kind of splinter period in poetry. These tiny little bright fragments of observation - and not produced under sufficient pressure - some of it's very skillful, but I don't think there's anywhere a discernible major poet in the process of emerging; or if he is, I ain't seen him.” IfsThinkingKindLittlesProcessPoetPeriodsMajorsPressureTinyObservationSufficientFragmentsEmergingSkillfulSplinters Author:Conrad Aiken
“These results add up to perhaps the most important investment lesson of all that can be drawn from this week's market anniversaries: Predicting turns in the market is incredibly difficult to do consistently well. That means that, if your investment strategy going forward is dependent on your anticipating major market turning points, your chances of success are extremely low.” IfsWellsMeanImportantTurnsDifficultChanceResultsWeekLessonsMajorsLowsStrategyAddInvestmentInvestingDependentConsistentlyTurning PointsPredicting Author:Mark Hulbert
“There are many major crises facing our country. At the top of the list is the need to overturn Citizens United. If billionaires are able to buy elections and elect right-wing candidates, there is no way we will ever address climate change, college education, affordability, job creation, raising the minimum wage and taking on Wall Street.” IfsWayNeedsCountryAbleJobsUnitedStreetsCreationCollegeWallCitizensMajorsElectionCrisisWingsClimateClimate ChangeListsOur CountryCandidatesAddressesMinimumRight WingBillionaireMinimum WageCollege EducationJob CreationCitizens UnitedAffordability Author:Bernie Sanders
“If we can just convince other people to get involved, this could make some major changes in our society. It's very exhilarating.” PeopleIfsInvolvedMajorsConvinceOur SocietyGet InvolvedExhilaratingMajor Change Author:Dolores Huerta
“To say you're going to wiggle your nose and that is going to happen, it won't happen. If you look at major companies who are doing wonderful things, wonderful things and they give their portfolio billions of dollars that they make and they give away $10 million or so, when you start putting the percentages there, what we are doing is significant.” IfsGivingLooksHappensCompanyMillionsWonderfulMajorsDollarsBillionsSignificantNosesWonderful ThingsPercentagesPortfolios Author:Paula White
“You may have heard that Donald Trum has long refused to release his tax returns, the way every other nominee for president has done for decades. You can look at 40 years of my tax returns. I think we need a law that says, if you become the nominee of the major parties, you have to release your tax returns.” IfsThinkingWayNeedsYearsLooksMayLongDoneLawPresidentPartyHeardReturnTaxesMajorsDecadesReleaseTax Returns Author:Hillary Clinton
“Phil Ramone and Quincy Jones were very close. Phil Ramone was one of the greatest record producers of all time. I don't know if they talk about him enough in the film, but he produced [Frank] Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, all of Billy Joel, Paul McCartney - Phil Ramone was one of the major record engineers and producers.” IfsKnowsEnoughFilmRecordsMajorsProducersAll TimeFrankEngineersRamonesStreisand Author:Robert Davi
“I returned to Kabul after a 27-year absence. I came away with some optimism but not as much as I had hoped for. The two major issues in Afghanistan are a lack of security outside Kabul (particularly in the south and east) and the powerful warlords ruling over the provinces with little or no allegiance to the central government. The other rapidly rising concern is the narcotic trade which, if not dealt with, may turn Afghanistan into another Bolivia or Colombia.” IfsYearsMayLittlesTwoGovernmentTurnsPowerfulIssuesSecurityMajorsConcernOptimismTradeSouthEastAbsenceRisingAfghanistanRulingAllegianceProvincesColombiaNarcoticsBoliviaKabulCentral GovernmentWarlords Author:Khaled Hosseini
“If the [Republican] party wants to have an ideological debate, it's never going to win anything in a major way.” IfsWayWantWinningPartyRepublicanMajorsDebateRepublican PartyIdeological Author:John Kasich
“I don't know the extent to which they do business [ in Wells Fargo]. I just want to see how this thing continues to unfold and if they have a legitimately major change in their culture.” IfsKnowsWantWellsCultureMajorsMajor ChangeFargoWells Fargo Author:John Kasich
“Even those who specialize in the history of philosophy often ignore the political and cultural context, and the natural world in which their philosophers were philosophizing. This has consequences both trivial and important. If you systematically read the last fifty years of the major journals in our discipline you would be amazed at the amount of redundancy. Most of this is unacknowledged because most of us know so little about the history of our discipline and even the subfields in which we work.” IfsKnowsWorldYearsLittlesImportantPhilosophyWould BeLastsPoliticalNaturalAmountDisciplineMajorsConsequencePhilosopherFiftyAmazedJournalNatural WorldRedundancy Author:Dale Jamieson
“All these people that you meet or I meet, there's not a prayer in hell that they're ever going to run for office or major office because if they're that smart, they're also smart enough to know they don't want to take everything that they've built up and have it torn apart by a sensationalized media that's so hungry for any kind of salacious detail that they'll make that the emphasis of the person's life. And then all of sudden, 50, 60 years of hard work and accomplishment go out the window.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantYearsKindPersonsHardEnoughRunningPrayerHellMediaHard WorkOfficeMajorsSmartBuiltWindowDetailsHungryAccomplishmentTornEmphasisTorn Apart Author:Mitch Albom
“I think that's a major reason. Instead of turning in their own lives to philosophy, religion, love, family life, or nature, they think of psychiatry; and today that means the "pill" as an ultimate answer. Also, if you have a desire for social control, "benevolent" control and "benevolent" authority, then again biological psychiatry offers a tremendous opportunity.” IfsThinkingMeanReasonPhilosophyTodayDesireOpportunitySocialAnswersOffersAuthorityMajorsUltimatePillsFamily LifePsychiatryFamily LoveBenevolentSocial Control Author:Peter Breggin
“If you don't donate to Obama and you're a major corporation like Big Oil, then they're gonna blame you for climate change, destroying the planet and they're gonna get everybody turned against you and hating your guts and so forth, and that's how they operate. That's not how Trump operates. That's not how Mike Pence operates. They understand the simple mathematics of economics.” IfsBigsHateSimplePlanetsTrumpMajorsEconomicsMathematicsBlameClimateClimate ChangeOilCorporationsGutsDestroyingHate YouMikeDonateBig Oil Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There's an interesting question, whether the anarchists had alternatives [in Spain]. If they did tend to support the government that had been destroyed, what were the alternatives? There was actually a proposal by Camillo Berneri, an Italian anarchist who was in Spain at the time, which is not a crazy notion in my opinion. He opposed participation in government and was against the formation of an army, meaning a major army to fight [Francisco] Franco.” IfsGovernmentFightingInterestingOpinionSupportCrazyMajorsArmyNotionDestroyedAlternativesItalianParticipationSpainProposalAnarchistFormationFrancoFrancisco Franco Author:Noam Chomsky
“Before the 3rd century you're having several philosophical schools still as a going concern. You have not only the Platonists and the Aristotelians but you have Scepticism, you have Stoicism, you even have a little bit of Epicureanism. And what happens after Plotinus is that everybody becomes a Neo-Platonist. So if we then go forward to the Islamic world for example, Plotinus is immensely influential, and Neo-Platonism becomes at least one major component of mainstream Islamic philosophy as well.” IfsWorldWellsLittlesStillsPhilosophyHappensSchoolBitsCenturyExampleMajorsLittle BitConcernPhilosophicalIslamicMainstreamStoicismComponentsInfluentialScepticismEpicureanism Author:Peter Adamson
“I typically get around to most major cities at least once a year. I think people see that as their chance to go nuts for the year if they're into the style of music.” PeopleIfsThinkingYearsChanceCitiesStyleMajorsNuts Author:Girl Talk
“If you intend on building a solid career, it's best to not worry about the major label approach. It's a trade-off that most true artists shouldn't have to make.” IfsArtistCareersWorryBuildingApproachMajorsTradeLabelsTrue ArtistsTrade Offs Author:Raheem Jarbo
“We have seen recently, almost every major head of state goes to India and says, we believe India should be in the Council. They go back home and do nothing about it. But this cannot be sustained for long. If they want to keep the UN as a global forum where they discuss incidents and take some meaningful decisions, they should [reform].” IfsWantShouldBelieveLongStatesHomeDecisionMajorsIndiaMeaningfulReformCouncilIncidentsBack HomeForumsHead Of State Author:Kofi Annan
“If, as I anticipate, a wide array of personal, portable information/communication devices becomes increasingly important and widespread for information-intensive users, it will be a major challenge for libraries to adapt their content and services to such a diverse technological environment.” IfsImportantChallengesEnvironmentInformationCommunicationMajorsLibraryWideDevicesUsersDiverseTechnologicalAnticipate Author:Tom Peters
“If you sit around and wring your hands as they're all doing now until something happens to a major American city, then it is too late.” IfsHandsHappensCitiesLateMajorsThings HappenToo LateAmerican Cities Author:James Inhofe
“I think if we, say, if all of the major leaders in this struggle [for human's rights] were at, at war with each other, then I think it would be very difficult to make this social revolution the kind of powerful revolution that it's proved to be.” IfsThinkingHumansKindWarWould BeSocialDifficultPowerfulLeaderStruggleRightsRevolutionMajorsSocial Revolution Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The political awakening that is happening worldwide is a major challenge for America, because it means that the world is much more restless. It's stirring. It has aspirations which are not easily satisfied. And if America is to lead, it has to relate itself somehow to these new, lively, intense political aspirations, which make our age so different from even the recent past.” IfsWorldMeanDifferentAgeAmericaPastPoliticalChallengesMajorsHappeningsAwakeningSatisfiedIntenseRelateAspirationRestlessLivelyStirringRecent Past Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski
“I was organizing a fringe meeting at the Conservative Party conference in October 1994 and I got a message that the Prime Minister would like a meeting. I went to the meeting. It was just me and John Major.What Major said to me was this: "If you were in my shoes, what would you do?". He wasn't asking me what a unionist should do, but what he should do. And I knew that I had to give him a sensible answer.” IfsGivingShouldSaidAnswersPartyMajorsMessagesAskingMeetingsShoesConservativeMinistersPrimeSensiblePrime MinisterConferencesFringeOctoberConservative Party Author:David Trimble