“The poverty we see in America is now too widespread, and too complex, for easy fixes. But I do think we can reimagine many of our institutions and can create new ones in ways that would be effective. We could, for example, create social insurance systems, similar to social security, such as that we went through in 2008-9. We could create a financial transaction tax, oil profit taxes and a fairer estate tax system, and we could plow much of the revenue raised from these into job training programs, into better education infrastructure, into an expanded Earned Income Tax Credit.” ThinkingEasyPovertySecurityTaxesTrainingProgramFinancialIncome Tax Author:Sasha Abramsky
“Until I reached my late teens, there was not enough money for luxuries - a holiday, a car, or a computer. I learned how to program a computer, in fact, by reading a book. I used to write down programs in a notebook and a few years later when we were able to buy a computer, I typed in my programs to see if they worked. They did. I was lucky.” WritingBookEnoughReadingCarLuckyComputerProgramHolidayNotebook Author:Zia Haider Rahman
“I would love to see the world's space programs continue toward sending humans to an asteroid or to Mars, with, of course, a full plan in place to bring them back. That excites me. And one of the things that excites me most about space is that we can go up there and put spacecraft in orbit with sensors that will help us measure the health of our planet, which is becoming particularly important. Our planet needs to be observed.” ImportantHelpingProgram Author:Marc Garneau
“For me, the passion of being an astronaut was ignited at an early age. I have this recollection of looking at a picture of the Apollo program - Neil Armstrong standing on the Moon - then looking at the night sky and realizing that, right where I was looking, people stood and looked back at the Earth. Even as a fairly young child, that was not lost on me, and it inspired me to pursue my dream. I didn't know if I would ever become an astronaut, of course, and the odds are not in your favour, but I just kept it in the back of my mind and tried to keep those options open.” PeopleMindChildrenDreamAgeEarthNightPassionRealizingMoonProgramInspiredAstronautNight Sky Author:Jeremy Hansen
“I really love sharing with young Canadians the changes we're seeing in the space program right now with what we call "commercial space." We have commercial cargo delivery to the space station, and now we have what we call "commercial crew," where we're going to be delivering people to low orbit on new vehicles that are being designed by Boeing and SpaceX.” PeopleProgramVehicleDelivery Author:Jeremy Hansen
“I can't tell you how many times at the breakfast table my dad would curse out Franklin Roosevelt. I love my father. He was an intelligent man, but he really didn't like regulations of the Roosevelt style, or the taxes. He was an Dwight Eisenhower man. And that's what Eisenhower did, committed to breaking down the program.” MenFatherStyleDadTaxesProgramIntelligentMy DadCommittedCurseBreaking DownFranklinDwight Author:Oliver Stone
“What I want to do is create great content on television and movies. It is not my role to program only for Latinos, and you can't really assume that Hispanics only want Hispanic content. But I do think that we are severely underrepresented in television and film. And instead of complaining about not seeing ourselves, we should become film producers, directors, and writers, and tell our story.” ThinkingFilmProgramAssumingComplainingProducersLatinoHispanic Author:Eva Longoria
“What better way to control your kid than by sending her to a compound on an island in the middle of the Caribbean, confiscating her money and passport, where she will be forced to comply with the program if she wants to leave?” KidsProgram Author:Julia Scheeres
“Before I went to Escuela Caribe, my parents showed me the school's brochures featuring smiling kids at the beach or on horseback. The propaganda was greatly appealing to a kid from rural Indiana who hated her high school anyway. I also got reassurances that I could return if I didn't like it. But shortly after the gates closed behind me, I learned I'd been deceived; the beach was far away and I couldn't return home until I'd completed the program.” HomeKidsSchoolParentHigh SchoolProgramBeachHatedPropagandaGatesFar AwayDeceivedReassurance Author:Julia Scheeres
“My days are filled with work I love - reading poems, writing poems, talking with people about poems, teaching, directing a writing program, hosting readings, etc.” PeopleWritingReadingTeachingProgram Author:Deborah Landau
“Exporters monitor economic and political policies to the developing world, but the consequences of that have been to make developing countries far more sensitive to the constant fluctuations. Developing countries are not always allowed to support their farmers in the same way as the U.S. or Europe is. They're not allowed to have tariff barriers. They're forced, more or less, to shrink their social programs. The very poorest people have fewer and fewer entitlements. The consequence of this has been that there's been a chronic increase in the vulnerability of those economies to price shocks.” PeopleWorldCountryPoliticalSupportEconomyEconomicPolicyConsequenceProgramSensitiveVulnerabilityBarriersFarmersEntitlement Author:Raj Patel
“If you just look at the number of roles for women versus the number of roles for men in any given film, there are always far more roles for men. That's always been true. When I went to college, I went to Julliard. At that time - and I don't know if this is still true - they always selected fewer women than men for the program, because there were so few roles for women in plays. That was sort of acknowledgment for me of the fact that writers write more roles for men than they do for women.” MenWritingFilmCollegeProgram Author:Gillian Jacobs
“I know many of you are hurting and angry about the economy, and I don't blame you. It's the worst economy since the Great Depression. When consumers can't buy and businesses won't expand for lack of customers, the government has to be the purchaser and employer of last resort. We learned that in the Great Depression, but Republicans obviously didn't - and they've blocked every jobs program I've offered.” HurtEconomyWorstRepublicanProgramBlameGreat DepressionBlocked Author:Barack Obama
“In one sense, no act of reparation will be satisfactory for those whose lives were so under-valued both as human beings held in slavery and then as human chattel to satisfy the financial indebtedness of a Catholic institution. Nonetheless, the university must also put into place - as it is attempting to do - a program that both admits the horror and error of its past actions and directs its students, faculty, and administrations to an awareness of the dignity of all people, especially those who even today are often considered less than worthy of respect and dignity.” PeopleTodayActionPastAwarenessStudentsHorrorProgramDignityCatholicSlaveryFinancialWorthyDignity And Respect Author:Wilton Daniel Gregory
“Recently, I was giving a speech and I said that it's time for many of us to "go home." Not necessarily to move back home but rather to go back to our communities and support those outreach programs and those people who could use our assistance.” PeopleGivingHomeMovingCommunitySupportProgramOutreach Author:Ernie Hudson
“Donald Trump is the least unpopular thing about today's Republican Party. I mean, the idea that a Mitch McConnell or a Paul Ryan could say, "Let's toss Trump overboard and return to our program of plutocratic politics, health care removal, massive income tax cuts for the affluent, deregulation of finance" - if they cut loose from Donald Trump, it's like, you know, storm in channel, continent cut off. If they cut loose from him, they are much likelier to sink.” MeanCarePartyCuttingLike YouRepublicanTaxesProgramStormFinanceHealth CareRepublican PartyIncome TaxRemovalOverboard Author:David Frum
“I have a trainer, and I'm not a trainer person. I don't like the attention. I don't like the one-on-one scrutiny. But I've had to enter into a very sort of rigorous rehabilitation program to avoid surgery on my back. I've already had four surgeries on my feet and two on my knee - all from Broadway dancing injuries. On Broadway, they don't really rehab the dancers like they do in sports. It's, "The show must go on" .” SportsAttentionProgramDancingDancerInjurySurgery Author:Brooke Shields
“Politicians step up and say, "This is what were going to do: we're going to set aside 450 million dollars for a mentorship program for orphaned youth," and so on and so forth, and it sounds great in this romanticized vision of what these alleged leaders are going to do for the alleged meek. But it doesn't examine: why are these kids orphans?” KidsLeaderVisionYouthPoliticianProgramOrphanStep UpMeek Author:Mr. Lif
“Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.” WantHumansChangeHuman BeingsAttitudeLearningComputerProgramTasksSimplicityTraditionalProgrammingSoftwareConstructionExplainingComputer ProgrammingProgramming LanguagesComputer Language Author:Donald Knuth
“The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent.” ShowsMightTalentExampleProgramManualsIbm Author:Donald Knuth
“A lot of these people, these program directors, just like anybody else in the world, even though they're supposed to be leaders in the world, they're followers. They follow what they think someone else is doing, instead of trying to blaze a trail.” PeopleThinkingWorldTryingLeaderWalkingDirectorsProgramSupposed To BeFollowersTrails Author:Talib Kweli
“Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That's the key.” NeedsShouldProblemEnergySportsFocusKeysProgramHipsThirtyZoneChestsFlexibility Author:Jack LaLanne
“I launched The Emeril Lagasse Foundation to provide culinary training, and developmental and educational programs to children in the cities where my restaurants operate. I think everyone has a responsibility to give back to the community if they can, and to help future generations learn new skills.” IfsThinkingGivingChildrenHelpingCommunityCitiesResponsibilityGenerationsSkillsTrainingProgramFoundationEducationalRestaurantsCulinaryGiving BackFuture GenerationDevelopmentalNew SkillsEducational Programs Author:Emeril Lagasse
“Many seniors understand that Social Security is social insurance as opposed to a program where we put money aside for our own retirement. But most elderly individuals think they're getting their money back. So it isn't selfishness as much as a misunderstanding.” ThinkingIndividualSocialSecurityProgramSelfishnessRetirementSeniorMisunderstandingSocial SecurityElderly Author:Richard Lamm
“In particular, the efforts to reestablish peace after the World War have been directed toward the formation of states and the regulation of their frontiers according to a consciously national program.” WorldHas BeensWarStatesEffortParticularProgramWar Of The WorldsRegulationFrontiersFormation Author:Christian Lous Lange
“A lot of people are crazy, cruel and negative. They got a little too much time on their hands to discuss everybody else. I have a limited amount of energy to blow in a day. I'd rather read something that I like or watch a program I enjoy or ride my damn motorcycle or throw back a couple of shots of tequila with my friends.” PeopleLittlesHandsEnergyEnjoyWatchesToo MuchCrazyAmountCoupleShotsMy FriendsNegativeProgramBlowDamnMotorcycleTequilaShots Of Tequila Author:Queen Latifah
“One of the things I like about the computer that I use is that I can write a program on it or I can download a program on to it and run it. That's kind of important to me, and that's also kind of important to the whole future of the internet... obviously a closed platform is a serious brake on innovation.” WritingKindI CanImportantWholeUseRunningSeriousInternetComputerProgramInnovationPlatformsBrakeDownloads Author:Tim Berners-Lee
“Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.” AtheismProgramPropaganda Author:Vladimir Lenin
“There are thousands of grant programs and every program has different requirements and deadlines.” DifferentProgramGrantsRequirementsDeadline Author:Matthew Lesko
“I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.” IfsKnowsGivingWritingTwoHardDealsTeachCreativeHard WorkGiving UpProgramTelling The TruthPersonal LifeCreative WritingWhole TruthCreative Writers Author:Doris Lessing
“This Obamacare program has Obama's name on it. He lied to people for three years about this program. People trusted him. People believed what he told them. They believed that he was going to improve the health care system in this country, and it was going to get cheaper, more affordable, more plentiful.” PeopleYearsCountryCareThreeNamesProgramHealth CareThree YearsTrustedLiedObamacareAffordableCheaperHealth Care SystemPlentifulHe Lied Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I loved planning 'The Tyra Show' more than actually having to do it. I loved coming up with show ideas, honing each program and crafting it. I'm more excited being in a meeting than being on TV.” IdeasShowsTvsProgramMeetingsExcitedPlanningHoning Author:Tyra Banks
“The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.” HardGovernmentHard WorkPromiseProgramSalvationProsperityGovernment Programs Author:Mia Love
“We need to reform our school lunch programs. We need to get healthy items into the vending machines.” NeedsSchoolHealthyProgramMachinesReformLunchItemsVending MachinesSchool Lunch Author:Joan Lunden
“There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.” LittlesHelpingFearPoorDiseaseResourcesProgramWake UpEqualityHelp MeWakingIlliterateTerminalTerminal Disease Author:Nelson Mandela
“The majority of the high schools and the public schools in N.Y.C. don't even have band programs. Hip-hop in a lot of ways is an outgrowth of a lack of instruments and a desire to play music, so we can't really fault the kids for that.” WayPlayKidsSchoolDesireBandHigh SchoolProgramInstrumentsMajorityFaultsHip HopHipsHopsPublic School Author:Wynton Marsalis
“I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.” OpportunityInterestAbilitySpaceFantasyUniqueProgramAstronautEducatorNasaSpace TravelSpace ProgramUnique Opportunities Author:Christa McAuliffe
“I will have a one-hour program called the Mission Watch, where I will describe details of the mission and give additional information about the lessons from space.” GivingHoursSpaceWatchesInformationLessonsProgramDetailsMissionsOne Hour Author:Christa McAuliffe
“I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program.” WorldChildrenLongEnoughSchoolProgramHungryFeds Author:George McGovern
“When you start one of these programs, school lunch programs, in a country that heretofore had nothing of that kind, immediately school enrollment jumps dramatically. Girls and boys get to the classroom with the promise of a good meal once a day.” KindCountrySchoolGirlBoysPromiseProgramMealsLunchClassroomBoy And GirlGood MealsSchool LunchEnrollment Author:George McGovern
“I was in choir in school. I kind of just did it. I already knew I wanted to sing. My music program in my school wasn't really great - people didn't really want to be part of the choir, they didn't want to do the plays and stuff like that. It definitely wasn't the cool thing to do.” PeopleWantKindPlayWantedSchoolStuffProgramThings To DoReally GreatGreat PeopleChoirCool Things Author:Lea Michele
“Well, for over a year now at my desk, a prototype program of Luigi and Mario has been running on my monitor. We've been thinking about the game, and it may be something that could work on a completely new game system.” ThinkingYearsWellsMayHas BeensRunningGamesProgramDesksPrototypeMario Author:Shigeru Miyamoto
“When I went to university, I was a philosophy major, but because I'm not very bright I chose to study philosophy at a performing arts school, maybe because the philosophy program there wasn't too rigorous or challenging.” ArtPhilosophySchoolChallengesStudyMajorsProgramUniversityPerformingArt SchoolPerforming Arts Author:Moby
“I travel the world visiting global health programs as an ambassador for the global health organization, PSI, and sometimes the disconnect I see is truly striking: people can get cold Coca Cola, but far too infrequently malaria drugs; most own mobile phones, but don't have equal access to pre-natal care.” PeopleWorldSometimesCareColdDrugEqualProgramOrganizationPhonesAccessMobileVisitingAmbassadorsTravel The WorldMobile PhonesMalariaCoca ColaGlobal HealthNatal Author:Mandy Moore
“Back in the late '90s, I put together a humorous newsmagazine program called 'The Awful Truth' for Bravo. We helped one guy get an organ transplant whose insurance company had refused to pay. I thought, if we could save a guy's life in a 10-minute segment on cable, what could we do if we devoted a whole movie to a whole bunch of people?” PeopleIfsWholeTogetherGuyPayCompanyMinutesLateHumorousProgramBunchAwfulOrgansDevotedCablesInsurance CompaniesTransplantsBravoOrgan Transplant Author:Michael Moore
“The money to fund great things and innovations and programs is gone in our lifetime; it's all gone to debt. So we won't be able to solve global warming or have the transportation that we needed for the 21st century. We should be supporting people with great ideas, but it's gone, and now it's gotta be paid back with interest to banks in China.” PeopleShouldIdeasAbleInterestGoneCenturyNeededProgramPaidInnovationLifetimeChinaSolveDebtGreat ThingsGlobal WarmingFund21st CenturyGreat IdeaTransportation Author:Michael Moore
“I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.” ThinkingWritingYearsHas BeensEnoughSeemsPastFictionCreativeProgramCreative WritingAmerican Poetry Author:Robert Morgan
“The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.” StatesAmericaPastUnitedUnited StatesTakenGenerationsProgramStructureWelfareSteadyExpansionOver The PastDisintegrationWelfare ProgramsPast Generations Author:Daniel Patrick Moynihan
“When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program.” ArtSchoolFilmFineHigh SchoolProgramUniversityAcceptedFine ArtsArt Films Author:Mike Myers
“We collectively have a special place in our heart for the manned space flight program - Apollo nostalgia is one element, but that is only part of it. American culture worships explorers - look at the fame of Lewis and Clark, for example. The American people want to think of themselves as supporting exploration.” PeopleThinkingWantLooksHeartCultureSpaceSpecialExampleFameElementsWorshipProgramNostalgiaFlightExplorationAmerican CultureApolloExplorersSpecial PlacesSpace FlightLewis And Clark Author:Nathan Myhrvold