“I balanced the budget for four straight years, paid off $405 billion in debt - pretty conservative. The first entitlement reform of your lifetime - in fact, the only major entitlement reform now is welfare.” YearsFirstsFactsFourMajorsPaidLifetimeConservativeDebtBillionsReformBudgetsWelfareBalancedEntitlementPaid Off Author:Newt Gingrich
“You could argue that [the decline of public schools] is one of the major disasters in our lifetimes. We took one of the greatest successes in the history of the earth and turned it into one of the greatest disasters in the history of the earth.” SchoolEarthMajorsLifetimeArguingDisasterDeclinePublic SchoolGreatest Success Author:Charlie Munger
“It might be the first time - certainly the first time in my lifetime that a major policy address by a Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump so heavily relied on data and studies from a labor-union-backed think tank.” ThinkingFirstsMightStudyPolicyTrumpRepublicanMajorsFirst TimeLaborUnionsLifetimeDataPresidentialAddressesTanksLabor Union Author:Avik Roy
“I never thought my granny, somebody that was born down South, who witnessed America when it was segregated, would see, in her lifetime, an African-American in office as the President of the United States. It's major, it's a real historic day.” RealStatesAmericaPresidentBornUnitedUnited StatesOfficeMajorsLifetimeSouthAfrican AmericanHistoricGranny Author:Nipsey Hussle
“It's kind of depressing when you hear the anti-science rhetoric in America, but I think that people are just afraid of change, and I think they're afraid of disruption, and I think they're afraid of the feeling that the rug is being pulled from underneath their feet. People are used to things changing maybe over many generations, but they're not used to seeing things change within their own lifetime. The problem is people are going to college and graduating, and realizing that their major is obsolete.” PeopleThinkingKindFeelingsProblemAmericaUsedRealizingSeeingGenerationsFeetCollegeMajorsLifetimeGraduatesDepressingRhetoricThings ChangeObsoleteDisruptionGoing To CollegeAfraid Of Change Author:Jason Silva