“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
“We know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the problem is that, since 1998, there has been no way to even get minimal information about those programs except through intelligence means.” KnowsWayMeanHas BeensProblemInformationProgramIraqMissiles Author:Condoleezza Rice
“Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.” HeartMayMeanHelpingHandsLibertyPovertyEconomicProgramWarmLibertarianWelfareLibertarianismMysticalReally MeanBureaucratsGullible Author:Thomas Sowell
“The urge to miniaturize electronics did not exist before the space program. I mean our grandparents had radios that was furniture in the living room. Nobody at the time was saying, 'Gee, I want to carry that in my pocket.' Which is a non-thought.” WantMeanSpaceRoomsProgramRadioPocketsUrgesGrandparentFurnitureLiving RoomElectronicsSpace Program Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.” PeopleMeanGovernmentSchoolPayEconomyTeacherCuttingTaxesBenefitsDrawsProgramWeakVariousSpendingUnemploymentFundingUnemployedSchool TeachersGovernment SpendingUnemployment Benefits Author:Fareed Zakaria
“A cold supper, were you thinking? I asked dubiously. I was not, he said firmly, I mean to light a roaring fire in the kitchen hearth, fry up a dozen eggs in butter, and eat them all, then lay ye down on the hearth rug and roger ye 'till you - is that all right? he inquired, noticing my look. 'Til I what? I asked fascinated by his description of the evening's program. 'Til ye burst into flame and take me with ye, I suppose, he said, and stooping, swooped me up into his arms and carried me across the darkened threshold.” ThinkingLooksMeanSaidLightFireArmsColdProgramLaysEveningFlamesKitchenDescriptionEggsTake MeFascinatedDozenNoticingRogerThresholdSupperRoaring Author:Diana Gabaldon
“Now the proposal is yet again another $150 billion before we start to think about a freeze. But $150 billion spent on more government programs; monies being created to direct and what kind of jobs that Washington thinks ought to be created. Come on. I mean there is a government that can help, and the government can also hurt.” ThinkingKindMeanHelpingGovernmentJobsHurtOughtProgramDirectBillionsProposalFreezeGovernment Programs Author:Eric Cantor
“Finally, the Program aims, through these means, to bring a little more knowledge, a little more reason, and a little more compassion into world affairs and thereby to increase the chance that nations will learn at last to live in peace and friendship.” WorldMeanLittlesReasonLastsNationsChanceCompassionProgramIncreaseAimAffairEducationalMore KnowledgeWorld Affairs Author:J. William Fulbright
“Democracy doesn't mean much if people have to confront concentrated systems of economic power as isolated individuals. Democracy means something if people can organize to gain information, to have thoughts for that matter, to make plans, to enter into the political system in some active way, to put forth programs and so on. If organizations of that kind exist, then democracy can exist too. Otherwise it's a matter of pushing a lever every couple of years; it's like having the choice between Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola.” PeopleIfsWayYearsKindMeanMatterPoliticalChoicesIndividualDemocracyPlansEconomicInformationCoupleHeroGainsProgramOrganizationActivePushingHeroicIsolatedOrganizePolitical SystemsLeversEconomic PowerCoca ColaPepsi Author:Noam Chomsky
“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
“Adopting a central organizing principle means embarking on an all-out effort to use every policy and program, every law and institution, to halt the destruction of the environment.” MeanUseLawEffortPrinciplesEnvironmentPolicyProgramDestructionInstitutionsClimate ChangeHaltEugenicsAdoptingEnviromentalEmbarkingEnvironmental PolicyEnviromentEnvironmental Destruction Author:Al Gore
“I will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state, not to General Motors, not to the CIO. I will hoard my power like a miser, resisting every effort to drain it away from me. I will then use my power, as I see fit. I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arived at yesterday at the voting booth. That is a program of sorts, is it not? It is certainly program enough to keep conservatives busy, and Liberals at bay. And the nation free.” MenLifeMeanStatesEnoughUsePoliticalNationsEffortPowerFitAuthorityProgramBusyYesterdayVotingAncestorLiving My LifeMotorDrainsObedientResistingMisersSubservientGeneral MotorsCio Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.
“I'm very, very concerned about the Bush presidency. I'm worried about the kinds of cuts in domestic programs that mean something to a lot of people, including members of my family, who depend on certain things from the government.” PeopleKindMeanGovernmentCertainCuttingDependsMembersConcernedProgramMy FamilyIncludingWorriedPresidency Author:Sarah Jessica Parker
“A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.” YearsMeanBookMomentsHappensMovingWaitingModernTelevisionCommunicationNeededProgramAvailableMeans Of Communication Author:Joseph Wood Krutch
“Birth Control which has been criticized as negative and destructive, is really the greatest and most truly eugenic method, and its adoption as part of the program of Eugenics would immediately give a concrete and realistic power to that science. . . as the most constructive and necessary of the means to racial health.” GivingMeanHas BeensBirthNegativeProgramMethodDestructiveRealisticConcreteAdoptionConstructiveEugenicsBirth Control Book:The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic Source: The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic