“The use of anthropomorphic terminology forces you linguistically to adopt an operational view. And it makes it practically impossible to argue about programs independently of their being executed.” UseForceViewsImpossibleProgramArguingTerminology Author:Edsger Dijkstra
“Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties.” CertainLeftForceSocialLibertyMilitaryProgramBehaveCivil LibertiesMilitary ForceSocial Programs Author:David K. Shipler
“A serious pacifist approach can't win wars against enemies whose only program is violence. That doesn't mean I think the US has fought terrorists so wisely most of the time since 9/11. But there are some enemies that need to be destroyed by force lest they destroy much much more.” ThinkingNeedsMeanWarWinningForceEnemyViolenceSeriousApproachProgramTerroristDestroyedPacifistCan't Win Author:Philip Gourevitch
“If you just go get one of these little fine arts degrees or writing program degrees, it never forces you to confront your responsibility as narrator, whereas any of the social sciences make you at look the interaction between the storyteller and story.” IfsWritingLooksLittlesArtStoriesForceSocialResponsibilityFineDegreesProgramInteractionStorytellerFine ArtsSocial ScienceNarratorsArts Degrees Author:Dorothy Allison
“It's more going back into, I've always been really interested in the MKULTRA program and some of the programs and the fact that we really tried to create an actual, I guess you could call it an energy force of yourself. And you know, there were test subjects that were killed during the process. It have a huge ordeal, this huge congressional hearing that shut the whole thing down.” KnowsWholeFactsEnergyForceProcessSubjectsHugeProgramTestsHearingOrdeals Author:Len Wiseman
“Coercion is as much the tool of the welfare state as it is of communism. The programs and edicts of both are backed by the police force. All of us know this to be true under communism, but it is equally true under our own brand of welfare statism.” KnowsStatesForceProgramToolsPoliceBeing TrueBrandsCommunismWelfareCoercionWelfare StatePolice Force Author:Leonard Read
“To finance 'entitlement' programs, the government threatens force against the taxpayers who provide the money. Why are people who favor compulsion called humanitarians, while those who favor freedom are stigmatized as greedy?” PeopleGovernmentForceProgramFavorsFinanceGreedyCompulsionTaxpayersEntitlementEntitlement Programs Author:John Stossel
“The death of American liberalism as a significant moral force can be traced to the point in when President Bill Clinton signed legislation that effectively ended the main federal anti-poverty program and turned the fate of welfare recipients, 70 percent of whom were children, over to the tender mercies of the states. With a stroke of the pen, Clinton eliminated what remained of New Deal-era compassion for the poor and codified into law the "tough love" callousness that his Republican allies in the Congress, led by Newt Gingrich, had long embraced.” ChildrenLongStatesLawForcePresidentPoorDealsCompassionMoralPovertyFateRepublicanPercentToughProgramMercyBillsClintonCongressSignificantErasWelfareLiberalismPensAlliesLegislationStrokesNewtsNew DealTough LoveCallousnessPresident Bill ClintonTender MerciesWelfare Recipients Author:Robert Scheer
“A generation ago [the Democratic Party] stood for progressive change. Now they defend every federal program as if each were sacred. They have become the most conservative force in American politics.” IfsForcePartyGenerationsProgramSacredDemocraticConservativeProgressiveAmerican PoliticsDemocratic PartyProgressive Change Author:Thomas Friedman
“What will be interesting to see is whether or not we see from the [Donald Trump] administration initiatives on higher education for this work force, because if those kinds of training opportunities are not provided, then I do think this program begins to look like a defensive holding action, a rear-guard action, buying time for workers who might not otherwise find positions in the 21st century.” IfsThinkingLooksKindMightActionOpportunityForceInterestingCenturyPositionTrumpHigherTrainingProgramWorkersAdministrationBuyingInitiative21st CenturyHigher Education Author:Judy Woodruff
“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
“The question is always how you get the number of troops needed. They do not have to be coalition forces. We also have to expand the training program for the Afghan National Army and the national police, in particular. and Defense Secretary Robert Gates has already announced support for a significant increase in the Afghan army.” ForceNumbersSupportParticularNeededTrainingProgramIncreaseArmyPoliceDefenseSignificantGatesTroopsSecretaryCoalitionsAfghanTraining Programs Author:David Petraeus
“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
“Iran has essentially mastered all of the complex science and technology that they need to have a completely indigenous nuclear weapons program. That means that our options on Iran are extremely limited, to regime change or as a last resort, the use of force.” NeedsMeanUseLastsForceTechnologyWeaponsProgramComplexesNuclearIranRegimesNuclear WeaponsResortsIndigenousScience And TechnologyUse Of ForceRegime Change Author:John Bolton
“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
“I've led a life of such structured discipline and always had a goal in mind of knowing what I was doing, from West Point to the Air Force combat, MIT, looking for new things to study and get involved in. And then I got into the space program, and how disciplined can you get?” MindForceGoalSpaceKnowingStudyAirDisciplineInvolvedProgramWestCombatNew ThingsGet InvolvedAir ForceSpace ProgramMitWest Point Author:Buzz Aldrin
“(Space programs are) a force operating on educational pipelines that stimulate the formation of scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians... They're the ones that make tomorrow come. The foundations of economies... issue forth from investments we make in science and technology.” ForceSpaceTechnologyEconomyIssuesTomorrowProgramScientistFoundationInvestmentEducationalEngineersMathematicianFormationScience And TechnologyPipelineSpace Program Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality.” IfsWantNeedsWellsMayTodayForceWorkBrainEconomicPersonalityIntegrityProgramRadioCharm Author:Gracie Allen
“If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program.” IfsWantUsePurposeForceClearWeaponsMassProgramDestructionThreatDemocraticDemocratIraqRejectsPatrioticSaddamDiminishLiedWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionWmdWmds In IraqInvading Iraq Author:William J. Clinton
“With control of the universe at stake, a crash program is imperative.We produced the A-bomb, under the huge Manhattan Project, in an amazingly short time. The needs, the urgency today are even greater. The Air Force should end UFO secrecy, give the facts to scientists,the public, to Congress. Once the people realize the truth, they would back, even demand a crash program...for this is one race we dare not lose.” PeopleNeedsGivingShouldEndsFactsTodayUniverseForceRealizingLosesRaceGreaterAirHugeDemandProjectsProgramScientistCongressDareBombsStakesCrashSecrecyImperativesUfoUrgencyManhattanShort TimeAir ForceExtraterrestrialManhattan Project Author:Donald Keyhoe