“In fact, I had a series of offers which would have brought me a lot of money to make films and package TV programs. There were people who said to me, we'll put a million dollars in your bank account tomorrow, which is a hard thing to turn down.” PeopleSaidHardFactsFilmTurnsMillionsTvsTomorrowOffersProgramAccountsDollarsSeriesLots Of MoneyPackagesMillion DollarsHard ThingsBank Accounts Author:Roone Arledge
“Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors.” UsedPowerfulMinutesSafeProgramAccountsSecureSavingMost PowerfulRetirementSeniorSavingsBankruptcySavings Accounts Author:Bill Frist
“After sketching his program for the scientific revolution that he foresaw, Bacon ends his account with a prayer: "Humbly we pray that this mind may be steadfast in us, and that through these our hands, and the hands of others to whom thou shalt give the same spirit, thou wilt vouchsafe to endow the human family with new mercies". That is still a good prayer for all of us as we begin the twenty-first century.” GivingMindFirstsHumansMayStillsEndsHandsSpiritPrayerCenturyRevolutionPrayingProgramMercyAccountsTwentiesSteadfastSketchingHuman FamilyScientific RevolutionGood Prayer Author:Freeman Dyson
“Yet if anyone cares to read over the now crumbling minutes giving an account of the meetings at which the Italian Fasci di Combattimento were founded, he will find not a doctrine but a series of pointers... It may be objected that this program implies a return to the guilds (corporazioni). No matter!... I therefore hope this assembly will accept the economic claims advanced by national syndicalism.” IfsGivingMayMatterCareAcceptingEconomicMinutesReturnProgramEconomicsAccountsClaimsMeetingsSeriesDoctrineItalianFascismAssemblyCrumblingGuildsPointers Author:Benito Mussolini
“People must understand the Clean Ganga program, as an economic activity also. The Gangetic plains account for 40% of our population. They have over one hundred towns, and thousands of villages.” PeopleEconomicActivityHundredEmpowermentProgramAccountsIndiaTownsCleanPopulationVillage Author:Narendra Modi
“Just consider the CIA and its effort to suppress the Senate's review of its torture program. Take in the fact that we live in a country that a) legalized torture and b) where no one was ever held to account for it, and now the government's internal look at what happened is being suppressed by the CIA. That's a frightening landscape to be in.” LooksCountryFactsGovernmentEffortHappenedProgramAccountsLandscapeTortureInternalsReviewsSenateFrighteningCia Author:Laura Poitras
“Social Security is a widely popular program because the individual has been deceived by the Statist to believe that the government has been prudently and diligently managing his accumulated pension investment in his Social Security account, which he presumes to be funded by his own payroll taxes.” BelieveHas BeensGovernmentIndividualSocialSecurityTaxesProgramAccountsInvestmentSocial SecurityDeceivedPensionPayrollPayroll Tax Book:Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto Source: Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto
“A new software is being developed so the psychological operations guys and the Pentagon's strategic communications guys - and we don't really know who's running it - but this is all totally out in the open. It's this new program that will allow them to have like ten fake Twitter accounts and ten Facebook accounts so you can pretend.” KnowsRunningGuyCommunicationTenProgramAccountsPsychologicalOperationsFakeSoftwareStrategicPentagon Author:Michael Hastings
“We do not take into account the value of the stream. We see the number of streams as a measure of consumer demand, not the value. As it is, we think streams are under-monetized, and we are complaining loudly about that. If the value of a stream changes, we won't alter the count because we don't want to alter the history of the program because that would impact these milestone achievements.” IfsThinkingWantValuesNumbersDemandAchievementProgramAccountsImpactComplainingConsumersStreamsMilestone Author:Cary Sherman
“There is no difference in a country between military, economic, and political affairs. It's useful for Business Insider to divide things that way. That's useful for a college program. But a country is a country. How do you understand China's economy without China's army? If you take these all into account you're ready to explain a question like, "How come the US doesn't have a debt problem?"” IfsWayCountryProblemPoliticalDifferencesEconomyEconomicMilitaryCollegeReadyProgramAccountsArmyAffairChinaDebtDividesInsiders Author:George Friedman
“We have a deal. And so there's movement towards a peace agreement, you know, a peace accord, a cease-fire, which is great. That's fabulous. It's unfortunate that we're also bombing Syria together [with Russians], and in my view we need - what we need to do together is create a weapons embargo together and get all the parties with the program here, and also collaborate on a freeze on the bank accounts of those countries that continue to fund terrorist enterprises, the No. 1 source of that being the Saudis.” KnowsNeedsCountryTogetherViewsDealsPartyFireMovementSourceWeaponsProgramAccountsTerroristCeaseEnterpriseAgreementFundUnfortunateSyriaFabulousAccordFreezeBombingSaudisBank AccountsEmbargo Author:Jill Stein
“The sorts of sectors which feature so largely in the [Donald] Trump program, and its rhetoric, account now for perhaps only about 15 percent of the American work force.” ForceTrumpPercentProgramAccountsFeaturesRhetoric Author:Judy Woodruff
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.” LifeGivingShouldWritingHumansProblemMotivationalAbleScienceOrderDiesCultureFightingHuman BeingsKnowledgeLearningPlansAdviceDyingDesignBuildingWallBalanceComfortComputerProgramAccountsManagementAtheistSolveBonesShipsCooksMealsInsectsEquationsBadassInvasionSonnetButchersDiapersHogManureSpecializationTastyStranger In A Strange LandRenaissance Man Author:Robert A. Heinlein
“Freedom! To fill people's mailboxes, eyes, ears and brains with commercial rubbish against their will, television programs that are impossible to watch with a sense of coherence. Freedom! To force information on people, taking no account of their right not to accept it or their right of peace of mind. Freedom! To spit in the eyes and souls of passersby with advertisements.” PeopleMindSoulEyeForceBrainAcceptingWatchesImpossibleInformationTelevisionProgramEarsAccountsPeace Of MindSpitRubbishAdvertisementsCoherenceMailboxesMind Freedom Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space.” Has BeensHardWholeInspirationRomanceScienceValuesSpaceEducationGrowing UpGreaterGrowingGenerationsDisciplineProgramAccountsImportanceDollarsEngineeringInputSpace Program Author:Arthur C. Clarke
“In addition to declaring and destroying all of its weapons of mass destruction, Iraq must end its support for terrorism. It must cease the persecution of its civilian population. It must stop all illicit trade outside the oil-for-food program. And it must release or account for all Gulf War personnel, including an American pilot, whose fate is still unknown. By taking these steps, and only by taking these steps, the Iraqi regime has an opportunity to avoid conflict. These steps would also change the nature of the Iraqi regime itself. America hopes the regime will make that choice.” StillsWarEndsAmericaChoicesOpportunityStepsSupportFateConflictWeaponsMassProgramDestructionAccountsTradeIncludingIraqPopulationTerrorismOilCeaseReleaseDestroyingPilotsRegimesPersecutionCiviliansWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionDeclaringPersonnelGulf War Author:George W. Bush
“Funding privatized accounts with Social Security dollars would not only make the program's long term problems worse, but many believe it represents a first step toward undermining the program's fundamental goals.” FirstsBelieveLongProblemSocialGoalTermStepsSecurityProgramAccountsFundamentalsDollarsLong TermFirst StepsSocial SecurityFundingUndermining Author:Patty Murray