“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
“The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of workers were displaced from the manufacturing industry, we created a wildly successful program: No Worker Left Behind.” StatesUseGovernmentLeftCommunityPowerfulNumbersBehindsSuccessfulCollegeIndustryProgramInnovationWorkersMost PowerfulLeft BehindManufacturingLarge NumbersMichiganCommunity College Author:Jennifer Granholm
“We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs.” TryingCountryWholeGovernmentEconomicDevelopmentIndustrySucceedProgramDetermineCorporateRangeEngagedRegionsFederal GovernmentEconomic Development Author:Stephen Harper
“[I]t is difficult to picture the great Creator conceiving of a program of one creature (which He has made) using another living creature for purposes of experimentation. There must be other, less cruel ways of obtaining knowledge.” WayMadePurposeDifficultAnimalCompassionIndustryCreaturesProgramCreatorVeganAnimal RightsExperimentationLiving CreaturesObtainingVivisectionConceiving Author:Adlai Stevenson I
“The Republican program is the profit-protection program for the insurance industry It's a bill of goods, it's a bill of wrongs. Ours is a patients' bill of rights.” RightsIndustryRepublicanProgramBillsPatientProfitProtectionGoodsBill Of Rights Author:Edward Kennedy
“I try to look at the evolution of these utopian claims. In the late '60s there was an assumption that the wealth generated by industry would be taxed and then put into social programs and it would provide a baseline of stability that would allow people to have the time for self-expression; and that social contract has eroded over the last four decades and now it's every person for themselves.” PeopleTryingLooksPersonsSelfWould BeLastsSocialWealthFourExpressionIndustryEvolutionLateProgramClaimsDecadesAssumptionContractsStabilitySelf ExpressionUtopianSocial ContractSocial Programs Author:Astra Taylor
“Look at the aerospace industry as it was just after the Kennedy talk. We were hiring like crazy. We were trying to get people graduated from college. Hey, you got to go to the program. We need you.” PeopleNeedsTryingLooksCrazyCollegeIndustryProgramHeyNeed YouHiringHey YouAerospace Author:Burt Rutan
“Terror became a big issue when the Reagan Administration came in. They immediately announced [their plans] and kind of disparaged Carter's alleged human rights programs. The main issue is state-directed international terrorism. Right at that time that big industry developed. That's when you start getting the academic departments on terrorism.” HumansKindStatesBigsIssuesRightsPlansIndustryProgramInternationalHuman RightsTerrorTerrorismAdministrationDepartmentAcademicCarterInternational Terrorism Author:Noam Chomsky
“The for-profit health insurance industry is the main obstacle to delivering high quality, universal healthcare for all. It should be replaced with a single-payer system, a public program that guarantees everyone coverage.” ShouldQualityIndustryProgramUniversalProfitObstaclesGuaranteesHealthcareReplacedCoverageDeliveringHigh Quality Author:Kshama Sawant
“The Superfund legislation set up a system of insurance premiums collected from the chemical industry to clean up toxic wastes. This new program may prove to be as far-reaching and important as any accomplishment of my administration. The reduction of the threat to America's health and safety from thousands of toxic-waste sites will continue to be an urgent but bitterly fought issue-another example for the conflict between the public welfare and the profits of a few private despoilers of our nation's environment.” MayImportantAmericaScienceNationsIssuesEnvironmentExampleHealthIndustryConflictProveWasteProgramSafetyThreatCleanEnvironmentalProfitAdministrationWelfareAccomplishmentReachingChemicalsToxicSiteLegislationUrgentReductionHealth And SafetyPublic WelfareToxic Waste Book:Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President Source: Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President
“I have six sisters and two beautiful daughters - that's eight women who mean the world to me. I support the Entertainment Industry Foundation and Lee National Denim Day because they fund programs that are making huge strides in breast cancer research and support.” WorldMeanTwoBeautifulMotherSupportHugeIndustrySixResearchDaughterProgramFoundationCancerEntertainmentEightBreastsFundBreast CancerStrideEntertainment IndustryDenimBeautiful DaughterCancer ResearchMean The World To Me Author:Felicity Huffman
“...the program of scientific experimentation that leads you to conclude that animals are imbeciles is profoundly anthropocentric. It values being able to find your way out of a sterile maze, ignoring the fact that if the researcher who designed the maze were to be parachuted into the jungles of Borneo, he or she would be dead of starvation in a week...If I as a human being were told that the standards by which animals are being measured in these experiments are human standards, I would be insulted.” IfsWayHumansFactsWould BeAbleValuesHuman BeingsAnimalWeekIndustryStandardsProgramExperimentsJungleStarvationBeing MeResearchersExperimentationInsultedMazesImbecilesBorneo Book:Elizabeth Costello Source: Elizabeth Costello