“The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for America's past success are still here to be tapped.” StillsAmericaPastValuesProgramDeterminationResponsibleFormulasPast Success Author:Michael Mandelbaum
“In case anyone needs reminding, it was the relentless drive of the tourism industry and kowtowing State Department bureaucrats that led to the Bush-era Visa Express Program, which relaxed visa policies, eliminated in-person consulate interviews and opened the door to the 9/11 hijackers.” NeedsPersonsStatesCasesDoorsPolicyIndustryProgramErasInterviewsDepartmentRelaxedRelentlessTourismRemindingBureaucratsVisaTourism Industry Author:Michelle Malkin
“About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close - there was too much to do on the theoretical aspects - and I began the process of winding down the experiments.” ProcessClearToo MuchResearchAspectProgramExperiments1960sTheoreticalWinding Down Author:Rudolph A. Marcus
“More broadly, we are going to have to examine the safety net programs to make sure they are poised to catch the families before they fall even more, especially in the areas of unemployment benefits, child care assistance, and foster care.” ChildrenCareFallBenefitsAreasProgramSafetyUnemploymentAssistanceSafety NetFoster CareChild CareUnemployment Benefits Author:Richard Neal
“Corporations invest in sophisticated CRM, or Customer Relationship Management, programs to effectively oversee their relationship with their customers at every point during the buying process.” ProcessProgramManagementCustomersCorporationsBuyingSophisticatedCustomer Relationship Author:Marc Ostrofsky
“I'm very involved in FIU. I'm class of '96 and my wife is class of '97. I'm a member of the foundation board. We talk about where the university is strategically and the evolution of programs for the near and distant future.” ClassWifeEvolutionInvolvedMembersProgramFoundationUniversityMy WifeBoards Author:Danny Pino
“I believe we must seek God's will, never presuming to identify it with our own program or power.” BelieveI BelieveProgramGods WillPresuming Author:David Price
“Funding and maintaining programs from Head Start to Pell Grants must be a high priority.” ProgramPrioritiesGrantsMaintainingFundingHead StartPell Grants Author:Ed Pastor
“We would like to carry out 100 percent, or maybe more, of our scientific program; I would like to devote some of my spare time toward extra scientific work.” PercentProgramExtrasSparesSpare Time Author:John L. Phillips
“Every day I get to 'Think' and work on everything from digitizing electric grids so they can accommodate renewable energy and enable mass adoption of electric cars, helping major cities reduce congestion and pollution, to developing new micro-finance programs that help tiny businesses get started in markets such as Brazil, India, Africa.” ThinkingHelpingEnergyCitiesCarMajorsMassProgramIndiaTinyFinanceDevelopingPollutionElectricAdoptionBrazilAccommodateRenewable EnergyGridsCongestionElectric Car Author:Ginni Rometty
“Recent research suggests that New Deal programs may actually have had their primary impact on the economy by influencing consumer and business expectations of future growth and inflation.” MayGrowthDealsEconomyInfluenceResearchExpectationsProgramImpactPrimariesConsumersInflationNew DealFuture Growth Author:Christina Romer
“I wouldn't discount the possibility that the Israelis would act if they came to the conclusion that basically the world was prepared to live with Iran with nuclear weapons. They certainly have the capability by themselves to set back the Iranian nuclear program.” IfsWorldPossibilityWeaponsProgramPreparedNuclearConclusionIranCapabilityNuclear WeaponsIranianDiscounts Author:Dennis A. Ross
“You have to design and program differently. Combat action in an MMO is so different to combat in a first-person shooter.” FirstsPersonsDifferentActionDesignProgramCombatFirst PersonShooter Author:John Romero
“If you could really guarantee that the money would be spent on something more worthwhile, I'd say, absolutely, scrap the space program, but it never works that way.” IfsWayWould BeSpaceProgramGuaranteesWorthwhileScrapGuarantees ThatSpace Program Author:Mary Roach
“I don't know anything more piggish - I don't know anything more un-American than saying, 'Oh, I'm worried about my own little handout or my own little program or my own little economy and we'll kick this can down the road and let some future generation deal with it.” KnowsLittlesMy OwnDealsEconomyGenerationsProgramWorriedKicksFuture GenerationDown The RoadHandouts Author:Todd Rokita
“After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.” KidsFeetCollegePagesAreasProgramWetNbc Author:Lara Spencer
“The designated driver program, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, drop them off at the wrong house.” IfsHumorFunnyJobsHouseProgramDriversDesirableYou Might Be A Redneck IfBeer DrinkingBeer DrinkersWrong Job Author:Jeff Foxworthy
“There are certainly delays in this year's agreed program, and we must quickly catch up. Let's not kid ourselves, there is still big waste in the public sector, and it must stop.” YearsStillsBigsKidsWasteProgramDelayPublic Sector Author:Antonis Samaras
“As a single-payer advocate, I believe that at the end of the day, if a state goes forward and passed an effective single-payer program, it will demonstrate that you can provide quality health care to every man, woman and child in a more cost-effective way.” IfsMenWayBelieveChildrenEndsStatesCareI BelieveQualityCostProgramEvery ManHealth CareThe End Of The DayMen WomenQuality Health Care Author:Bernie Sanders
“Of course the Republicans have long wanted to privatize Social Security and destroy it. But Social Security has been the most important and valuable social program in the history of the United States.” LongHas BeensImportantStatesWantedCoursesSocialUnitedUnited StatesSecurityRepublicanProgramValuableSocial SecuritySocial Programs Author:Bernie Sanders
“We must have moral education in the schools, anti-bullying programs, but this does not mean programs to feminize boys.” MeanDoeSchoolMoralBoysProgramBullyingAnti BullyingMoral Education Author:Christina Hoff Sommers
“I think anyone that thought that we were coming in as a bunch of liberal Democrats to deliver more large-scale social programs was nuts. I sure didn't expect it.” ThinkingSocialProgramDemocratScalesBunchNutsLarge ScaleSocial Programs Author:Donna Shalala
“If you aren't having no fun, die, because you're running a worthless program, far as I'm concerned.” IfsRunningDiesFunConcernedProgramWorthless Author:Gil Scott-Heron
“For Sony, owning a studio is a gamble and probably a pretty good one, now that in the broadband era having content is a great advantage when you sell devices that in a ubiquitous world of distribution can actually show programs, movies, content directly to the consumer. So that you actually create, in a digital world, real synergy.” WorldRealShowsAdvantageProgramSellsStudiosErasConsumersDigitalDevicesDistributionGambleSynergySonyDigital WorldBroadband Author:Howard Stringer
“We are talking about institutionalizing a program on solar development that will outlast the Obama administration.” TalkingDevelopmentProgramAdministration Author:Ken Salazar
“One more time? We've done this. We've done this at least four times where there's a new government program to help homeowners who have trouble with their mortgages. None of these programs have worked. I don't know why anyone would think that this next idea is going to work. All it does is delay the clearing of the market. As soon as the market clears and we understand where the prices really are - that will be the most important thing we can do in order to improve home values around the country.” ThinkingKnowsDoeImportantIdeasCountryDoneHelpingHomeGovernmentValuesOrderNextCan DoFourTroubleProgramImportant ThingsConservativeMore TimeDelayGoing To WorkMortgageClearingGovernment ProgramsNew GovernmentConservative ValuesHomeowners Author:John Boehner
“The reason a person is in a particular state of mind is primarily because of attraction and aversion. Attraction and aversion cause us to format a mental or intellectual program.” MindPersonsStatesReasonCausesAwarenessParticularBuddhismIntellectualProgramAttractionState Of MindFormatAversion Author:Frederick Lenz
“We're building an independent political program that can run electoral politics and then turn on a dime to hold our leaders to task, in case they suddenly develop that old case of amnesia! We'll be there to remind them what they promised and who they promised to work for!” RunningPoliticalTurnsLeaderCasesBuildingProgramTasksIndependentTurn-onDimesAmnesia Author:Richard Trumka
“The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism.” SchoolProgramLet MeJournalismClosestSociologySantaCruzSanta Cruz Author:David Talbot
“When I came to the CIA in the mid-'90s, our graduating class of case officers was unbelievably low. Now, after years of rebuilding, our training programs and putting our best efforts to recruit the most talented men and women, we are graduating more clandestine officers than at any time in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency.” MenYearsEffortClassCasesLowsTrainingMen And WomenProgramAgencyOfficersGraduatesCiaRebuildingBest EffortRecruitIntelligence AgenciesClandestineTraining ProgramsGraduating Class Author:George Tenet
“It's traditionally not federal policy to fund state and local salaries. It's done sometimes on a temporary basis or a grant basis. But it's not often done. And the reason is clear, because the federal government can't continue in perpetuity these programs.” SometimesStatesReasonDoneGovernmentClearPolicyProgramBasesLocalsFundGrantsTemporaryFederal GovernmentSalary Author:Jim Talent
“You program music with an image and then people are desensitized.” PeopleProgram Author:Julie Taymor
“Under President Obama's new health care law, Medicaid will become a very different health coverage program than first envisioned.” FirstsDifferentCareLawPresidentProgramHealth CarePresident ObamaCoverageMedicaidHealth Coverage Author:Fred Upton
“But I will say, I think there are some Democrats that don't want to address pension reform. I have taken on the issue of seniority and tenure. I think we have to address entitlements and the president has done that in his budget. I think we have to extend Medicare and the president has done that. But also reinvest in that program.” ThinkingWantDonePresidentIssuesTakenProgramDemocratReformBudgetsAddressesEntitlementMedicarePensionTenureSeniority Author:Antonio Villaraigosa
“Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition.” WorldGivenStudentsAmountProgramFundGrantsAwardsEmphasisFundingTuitionPell Grants Author:Charles M. Vest
“Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.” PeopleWorldTwoReasonHelpingPoliticalPovertyProgramRegardVarietyDividedCampsLearning Experience Author:Barney Frank
“But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered.” ShouldDecisionPoorSubjectsObjectsInvolvedProgramEtcDecision MakingSupporterMaking Decisions Author:Barney Frank
“For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.” PeoplePoorEffortObjectsProgramWelfareReasonableLegislationPoor PeopleWelfare Programs Author:Barney Frank
“FACE THE NATION is the second oldest program on television. It began in 1954, fifty-eight years ago. I've been here at the table for the last twenty-one.” YearsLastsFacesNationsTelevisionYears AgoProgramTwentiesTablesEightFiftyTwenty One Author:Rodney Erickson
“There is a definite way to do this. There is a training program that you will go through and it's delightful. It's absolutely beautiful.” WayInspirationalBeautifulBuddhismTrainingProgramDefiniteDelightfulTraining Programs Author:Frederick Lenz
“It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.” YearsHumansLongEndsCareResultsBrainEnvironmentWrittenInfluenceDevelopmentIntellectualProgramPerfectionComplexesTake CarePsychologicalImperfectionEnginesNot PerfectHuman BrainEnd ResultsIntellectual DevelopmentHuman Imperfection Author:Rita Levi-Montalcini
“It's hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it's impossible to have that debate.” HardSecretOpinionImpossibleProgramCourtDebate Author:Al Franken
“It's also a reasonable scientific program to look at the dynamics of the standard model and to try to prove from that dynamics that it is computationally capable.” TryingLooksProveCapableModelsStandardsProgramReasonableDynamics Author:Seth Lloyd
“The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans' privacy. But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we're getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.” WayGivingProblemBigsGovernmentAmericaKnowingInformationBalanceSafeProgramWeightTerroristPrivacyTransparencySurveillanceBig Problems Author:Al Franken
“One of my favorite programs that we didn't make is Rescue Time. It runs in the corner of my computer and tracks how much time I spend on different things. I realized that even though I was doing e-mail only a couple of minutes at a time, it was adding up to a couple of hours a day. So I'm trying to reduce that.” TryingDifferentRunningHoursMinutesCoupleComputerProgramMy FavoriteTrackCornersI RealizedDifferent ThingsMailRescue Author:Matt Mullenweg
“I did theater as a kid, more of an after-school program. But every night I would put on a movie and fall asleep to it.” KidsSchoolNightFallProgramTheaterEvery NightAfter SchoolAfter School Programs Author:Scoot McNairy
“I went to really good New York City public schools that had arts programs. So in junior high, I got into the drama department. From there, I went to a performing arts high school in New York City called Laguardia and I just kind of fell into the professional side by happenstance.” KindArtSchoolSidesCitiesNew YorkDramaHigh SchoolProgramPerformingDepartmentNew York CityPublic SchoolJuniorsJunior HighPerforming ArtsHappenstance Author:Merritt Wever
“For an economic recovery program to be effective, it must not only create a short-term economic boost but also generate lasting value. Home Star would accomplish that by breaking down the key barrier between homeowners and money-saving retrofits: upfront costs.” HomeValuesStarsTermEconomicKeysCostProgramAccomplishRecoverySavingBarriersLastingBreaking DownShort TermSaving MoneyBoostHomeownersEconomic Recovery Author:Peter Welch
“It is hard to be enthusiastic about the economy's prospects when house prices are falling: Households spend less, small business owners can't use homes as collateral for loans and local governments are forced to cut jobs and programs as property-tax revenue disappears.” HardUseHomeGovernmentJobsFallHouseEconomyCuttingTaxesProgramPropertyDisappearLocalsOwnersHouseholdSmall BusinessRevenueLoanEnthusiasticProspectsBusiness OwnersLocal GovernmentSmall Business OwnersCollateralProperty TaxesHouse Prices Author:Mark Zandi