“We've abnegated the Kyoto treaty, we've instituted a voluntary program that's obviously not been working, we've taken every effort to excise references to global warming from official documents, to try to undermine international conferences that work on environmental issues, and on and on and on.” TryingEffortIssuesTakenProgramEnvironmentalInternationalOfficialsGlobal WarmingDocumentsConferencesTreatiesKyotoEnvironmental Issues Author:Bill McKibben
“The museums used to be exhibition halls for government propaganda, and now every city wants to build a museum. A few thousand are to be built in the next few years, all using taxpayer money. But there is no system, no research, no content, no good programs, no good managers.” WantYearsGovernmentUsedNextCitiesThousandResearchBuiltProgramUsed To BeManagersPropagandaGood ManHallsMuseumsTaxpayersExhibitionsGood Manager Author:Ai Weiwei
“I've been writing short stories for twenty years now, on and off ever since I was in the creative writing program at San Francisco State University.” WritingYearsStatesStoriesCreativeProgramTwentiesUniversityShort StoryCreative WritingSan FranciscoAnd OffWriting ShortWriting Short Stories Author:Andrew Lam
“The Russians have had and continue to have an active program to undermine American society.” ProgramActiveAmerican Society Author:Van Jones
“Malcolm X had a clear vision and an understanding that we were - that he was a part of a broad freedom struggle. As his vision became more internationalist and pan-African, as he began, especially in 1964, after seeing the example of anti-colonial revolutions abroad and began to articulate and incorporate a socialist analysis economically into his program, he clearly became a threat to the US state.” StatesUnderstandingVisionStruggleClearSeeingExampleRevolutionProgramThreatAnalysisBroadsSocialistClear Vision Author:Manning Marable
“We're going to go to the moon. We're going to go on to Mars. We're going to set up a base on the moon. OK, but no money to pay for it, nothing in the budget for it. And so the decision made at that time was to cancel the whole shuttle program to save money, which I think was very, very short sighted.” ThinkingMadeWholeDecisionPayGoes OnMoonProgramBudgetsMarsNo MoneySaving MoneyDecisions MadeShort SightedShuttle Program Author:John Glenn
“I have traveled a lot around the world and have seen a lot of people come to my programs... [and it made me realize] that people of all ages - from little children to elders - listen to my nasheeds.” PeopleWorldChildrenLittlesMadeAgeRealizingProgramAround The WorldTraveledElders Author:Junaid Jamshed
“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
“Target for example, is just a dot with a circle around it, that's all it is, so if you want a logo like Target, you don't need to hire a designer, you barely need to know how to operate a computer program, the logo may as well be anything.” IfsKnowsWantNeedsWellsMayKnow HowExampleComputerProgramCirclesDesignerTargetDotsLogos Author:Michael Bierut
“I think that you could design a terrible logo for a good company with great people and they could build it into a great program. Alternatively you could design what seems to be a brilliant logo for people who are not smart or energetic or are incapable of associating with anything positive and it would become a terrible logo.” PeopleThinkingSeemsCompanyDesignTerribleSmartProgramBrilliantIncapableGreat PeopleEnergeticLogosGood Company Author:Michael Bierut
“If you look at the Olympic graphics for Mexico or Los Angeles, those programs don't look contemporary by today's eyes but they really look like they are of their place and time.” IfsLooksEyeTodayProgramContemporaryLos AngelesMexicoPlace And Time Author:Michael Bierut
“The scientists at CERN were actually surprised that people commented on this. Reportedly Fabiola Gianotti, the coordinator of the CERN program to find the Higgs Boson, was asked why she had selected Comic Sans. She simply said, "Because I like it."” PeopleSaidProgramScientistComicSelectedCoordinatorSimply SaidCernComic Sans Author:Michael Bierut
“I got a job as the Visuals Art's Teacher at my Alma Mata, St. Mary's College. Then my interests shifted to animation. Ironically, it was one of my students who sparked this energy in me by introducing me to an animation program called FLASH. So I dabbled and played around with it.” ArtJobsEnergyInterestTeacherStudentsCollegeProgramVisualsMaryIntroducingFlashAnimation Author:St. Lucia
“I did a 22 Days Nutrition program. That's something I know works. Also, do at least an hour of cardio. Eat six meals a day. Meal, snack, meal, snack, meal, snack, meal. Small portions. No carbs, no dairy. You lose it fast and you'll be feeling amazing. It's something that we have to do and discipline ourselves.” KnowsFeelingsHoursLosesDisciplineSixProgramMealsPortionsNutritionDairySnacksCardioCarbs Author:DJ Khaled
“[Gilda Radner] was in the in vitro fertilization program, and it nearly, nearly drove us apart, too. She wanted that baby, so badly, and it didn't work. Oddly enough, when we were doing "Haunted Honeymoon" in London, she did become pregnant for about 10 days, but then she lost it. But, anyway, my odyssey with Gilda was wonderful, funny, torturous, painful and sad. It was - it went the full gamut.” EnoughWantedLostWonderfulBabyProgramPainfulLondonPregnantHoneymoonOdysseyFertilization Author:Gene Wilder
“I learned to use language like my mother did. I would simulcast, give you the program in your own tongue.” GivingUseMotherLanguageProgramTongue Author:Trevor Noah
“The neoliberal programs of the last generation have in fact been, and were intended to be, a pretty serious attack on democracy, but also they've led to stagnation or decline for large parts of the population - the working class, the lower middle class, these people have essentially been cast aside.” PeopleFactsLastsClassDemocracyGenerationsMiddleSeriousProgramCastsPopulationMiddle ClassDeclineWorking ClassStagnation Author:Noam Chomsky
“That's unfortunately common - to blame immigrants, to blame the African-Americans who are being helped by federal programs, to blame anyone available, to direct attention away from the roots of the distress which you're suffering. This combines with xenophobia, white supremacy, racism, misogyny, and other quite unpleasant phenomena which are far from being eradicated. All of this makes for a pretty dangerous brew. But economic issues are right in the center of it. And you can see this in the fact that so many former Obama voters now voted for Trump, or just didn't bother voting.” FactsSufferingWhiteCommonAttentionIssuesEconomicDangerousTrumpRacismProgramDirectRootsBlameAvailableFormerAfrican AmericanBotherVotingImmigrantsVotersDistressMisogynyWhite SupremacySupremacyXenophobiaEconomic Issues Author:Noam Chomsky
“We don't know how many people are watching The Grand Tour's - it's a closely guarded secret, we don't even know - the only thing we can do is make a program that we enjoy. And then hope that we're not so unusual that other people won't share our taste.” PeopleKnowsEnjoyCan DoSecretKnow HowShareTasteProgramUnusualGuarded Author:Jeremy Clarkson
“I never program anything, I decide at the last minute.” LastsMinutesProgramLast Minute Author:Franca Sozzani
“Let's ask their parents. And will those children point to their parents and tell us you really need to enforce the law against my parents? Because they know what they were doing when they caused me to break the law. I don't think we've thought through this very well. But there's a reason why in the president's DACA programs he didn't grant his unconstitutional executive amnesty to the parents of dreamers.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsWellsChildrenReasonLawAsksParentPresidentBreakProgramReason WhyExecutivesGrantsDreamerAmnestyUnconstitutional Author:Steve King
“I get rejections from the New Yorker. When I had to give a little talk to the people graduating from the MBA program at Columbia who were going into writing and filmmaking and everything, I said, "When I tried to think of what to say, the only subject I thought was appropriate for people doing what you're going to do is rejection." That's what it's all about.” PeopleThinkingGivingWritingLittlesSaidSubjectsProgramRejectionAppropriateGraduatesFilmmakingNew YorkersColumbiaMbaMba Programs Author:Kevin Sessums
“When I applied to Stanford, I applied for graduate work in the PhD program, not to the creative writing program, mostly because though I had some vague ambition of becoming a writer and I was trying to write poems and essays and stories, I didn't feel like I was far enough along to submit work to some place and have it judged.” FeelsWritingTryingEnoughStoriesCreativeBecomingAmbitionProgramJudgedGraduatesSubmitVagueEssaysCreative WritingStanfordPhds Author:Robert Hass
“The professionalization of poetry, or the balkanization, has come out of the fact that when you apply to most creative writing programs, you have to choose your genre.” WritingFactsCreativeProgramGenreCreative Writing Author:Robert Hass
“In my opinion, mature political action is the type of action that that involves a program of re-education and information that will enable the black people in the black community to see the fruits that they should be receiving from the politicians who are over them and, thereby, they are then able to determine whether or not the politician is really fulfilling his function.” PeopleShouldAbleActionPoliticalBlackCommunityOpinionInformationTypePoliticianProgramFunctionFruitDetermineMatureBlack PeopleReceivingFulfillingBlack CommunityPolitical Action Author:Malcolm X
“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
“There was a direct jobs program from the Rooselvelt administration in the 1930s. The Justice Department has set up a task force to investigate the banks and the mortgage crisis but that's a little too late. Whenever they report they will report the obvious. It will be too late to impact the people who need the help the most.” PeopleNeedsLittlesHelpingJobsForceJusticeLateProgramTasksDirectCrisisImpactObviousAdministrationDepartmentReportsToo LateMortgage1930sTask ForcesMortgage Crisis Author:Jesse Jackson
“Greece and the Greek people have recently had to deal with the harshest consequences of the global and European economic crisis. As an economy and as a society, we have had to experience a program of disastrous austerity which made the problems more acute instead of resolving them.” PeopleMadeProblemDealsEconomyEconomicConsequenceProgramCrisisGreekGreeceAusterityEconomic Crisis Author:Alexis Tsipras
“I had two spinster aunts who were seamstresses, and of course unemployed in the 1930s, but the union gave them a life. They had a couple of weeks in the country for a union installation and they had educational programs and all sorts of things. There was a life, you know, a real community.” KnowsTwoRealCountryCoursesCommunityWeekCoupleProgramUnionsEducationalAuntUnemployed1930sInstallationSpinstersEducational Programs Author:Noam Chomsky
“In a democracy the day when you pay your taxes, April 15, would be a day of celebration, because you're getting together to provide resources for the programs you decided on.” Would BeTogetherPayDemocracyTaxesResourcesProgramDecidedCelebrationApril Author:Noam Chomsky
“The majority of the population thinks that if the government runs healthcare, they're going to take away your freedom. At the same time, the public favors a national healthcare program.” IfsThinkingGovernmentRunningProgramMajorityPopulationFavorsHealthcareYour Freedom Author:Noam Chomsky
“I have nothing else to say other than I wasn't corrupt, unfair, or greedy. I was smart when it came to making decisions for my company, and I wasn't greedy. I gave to others in charity and donated money to fund programs. I have nothing else to say.” DecisionCompanySmartProgramCharityFundUnfairGreedyMaking Decisions Author:John D. Rockefeller
“Higher minimum wages, full-employment programs, early-childhood education: Those kinds of programs are, by design, universal, but by definition, because they are helping folks who are in the worst economic situations, are most likely to disproportionately impact and benefit African Americans. They also have the benefit of being sellable to a majority of the body politic.” KindHelpingBodySituationEconomicChildhoodWorstDesignHigherBenefitsProgramUniversalImpactMajorityFolksDefinitionsEmploymentAfrican AmericanMinimumWagesMinimum WageEarly ChildhoodEarly Childhood Education Author:Barack Obama
“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
“It is my view that if society was doing the right thing with respect to you, [and there were] programs targeted at helping people rise into the middle class and have a good income and be able to save and send their kids to school, and you've got a vigorous enforcement of anti-discrimination laws, then I have confidence in the black community's capabilities to then move forward.” PeopleIfsHelpingKidsAbleSchoolMovingLawBlackCommunityViewsClassMiddleProgramIncomeDiscriminationMoving ForwardRight ThingMiddle ClassCapabilityEnforcementHelping PeopleVigorousDoing The Right ThingHave ConfidenceBlack CommunityAnti Discrimination Author:Barack Obama
“If you look at countries like South Africa, where you had a black majority, there have been efforts to tax and help that black majority, but it hasn't come in the form of a formal reparations program.” IfsLooksHas BeensCountryHelpingFormBlackEffortTaxesProgramMajoritySouthSouth AfricaFormalReparations Author:Barack Obama
“You have countries like India that have tried to help untouchables, with essentially affirmative-action programs, but it hasn't fundamentally changed the structure of their societies.” CountryHelpingActionChangedProgramIndiaStructureAffirmative ActionAffirmativeUntouchables Author:Barack Obama
“I'm not so optimistic as to think that you would ever be able to garner a majority of an American Congress that would make those kinds of investments above and beyond the kinds of investments that could be made in a progressive program for lifting up all people.” PeopleThinkingKindMadeAbleProgramMajorityInvestmentCongressOptimisticProgressiveLiftingAbove And BeyondLifting Up Author:Barack Obama
“Imagine if you had genuine, high-quality early-childhood education for every child, and suddenly every black child in America - but also every poor white child or Latino [child], but just stick with every black child in America - is getting a really good education. And they're graduating from high school at the same rates that whites are, and they are going to college at the same rates that whites are, and they are able to afford college at the same rates because the government has universal programs. So now they're all graduating.” IfsChildrenGovernmentAbleSchoolAmericaBlackWhitePoorQualityImagineChildhoodCollegeHigh SchoolProgramUniversalSticksRateGenuineGraduatesLatinoHigh QualityGood EducationEarly ChildhoodGoing To CollegeGraduating High SchoolEarly Childhood Education Author:Barack Obama
“Sometimes I wonder how much of these debates have to do with the desire, the legitimate desire, for that history to be recognized. Because there is a psychic power to the recognition that is not satisfied with a universal program, it's not satisfied by the Affordable Care Act, or an expansion of Pell grants, or an expansion of the earned-income tax credit.” SometimesCareDesireWonderTaxesProgramUniversalCreditDebateIncomeSatisfiedRecognitionGrantsExpansionPsychicsAffordableIncome TaxSometimes I WonderAffordable Care ActPell Grants Author:Barack Obama
“I think, the argument sometimes that I've had with folks who are much more interested in sort of race-specific programs is less an argument about what is practically achievable and sometimes maybe more an argument of "We want society to see what's happened, and internalize it, and answer it in demonstrable ways." And those impulses I very much understand.” ThinkingWayWantSometimesAnswersRaceHappenedProgramArgumentFolksImpulse Author:Barack Obama
“The chairs [in Congress] are part of the "Gang of Eight." They get briefed on every covert-action program and everything like that. They know where all the bodies are buried. At the same time, they get far more campaign donations than anybody else from defense contractors, from intelligence corporations, from private military companies.” KnowsBodyActionCompanyMilitaryProgramCongressEightDefenseCampaignsCorporationsChairsBuriedGangDonationContractorCovert Author:Edward Snowden
“We've already seen, in practically every country around the world where these issues have been covered, that the general public has recoiled at the ideology behind these programs.” WorldHas BeensCountryBehindsIssuesProgramIdeologyAround The WorldCoveredGeneral Public Author:Edward Snowden
“[Bill] Binney designed ThinThread, an NSA program that used encryption to try to make mass surveillance less objectionable. It would still have been unlawful and unconstitutional.” TryingHas BeensStillsUsedMassProgramBillsSurveillanceNsaUnconstitutionalUnlawfulEncryption Author:Edward Snowden
“Candidates run for election on campaign promises, but once they're elected they renege on those promises, which happened with President [Barack] Obama on Guantánamo, the surveillance programs and investigating the crimes of the Bush administration. These were very serious campaign promises that were not fulfilled.” RunningPresidentHappenedCrimeSeriousPromiseProgramElectionCampaignsAdministrationBarackCandidatesFulfilledSurveillancePresident Barack ObamaInvestigating Author:Edward Snowden
“I considered bringing forward information about these surveillance programs prior to the election, but I held off because I believed that [Barack] Obama was genuine when he said he was going to change things. I wanted to give the democratic process time to work.” GivingSaidWantedProcessInformationProgramElectionDemocraticGenuineBarackSurveillanceDemocratic Process Author:Edward Snowden
“I think every physical program has to come from good nutrition.” ThinkingProgramNutritionGood Nutrition Author:Rosamund Pike
“Trump's "Make America Great Again" program trumpets a national identity built on scapegoating, self-pity and grandiosity, and the promise of a strongman.” SelfAmericaIdentityTrumpPromiseBuiltProgramPitySelf PityTrumpetsNational Identity Author:Susan Faludi
“I think liberals should accept that if we want big programs that significantly reduce inequality - and we should - it's going to require higher taxes on everyone. The rich can certainly do more, especially given their stupendous income increases since the Reagan era, but they can't do it all.” IfsThinkingWantShouldBigsGivenAcceptingRichHigherTaxesProgramIncreaseIncomeInequalityEras Author:Kevin Drum
“President Barack Obama couldn't bring everything into existence through Congress. Because from the day that he was elected president of the United States, the United States Congress, many of the Republicans met, and they declared that they would never allow his legislative program to succeed. And for eight years they fought him.” YearsStatesPresidentUnitedExistenceUnited StatesRepublicanMetsSucceedProgramCongressEightBarackPresident Barack Obama Author:Louis Farrakhan