“President Obama is closing the prescription drug doughnut hole. He strengthened Medicare! He extended the life of the program by eight years. And what Governor Romney and Congressman Ryan won’t admit is that their plan would require current seniors to pay, on average, $600 more each year for prescription drugs.” YearsPresidentPayPlansDrugProgramAverageCurrentsEightHolesPresident ObamaGovernorsSeniorClosingRomneyPrescriptionsMedicareCongressmanDoughnutPrescription DrugsGovernor Romney Author:Debbie Wasserman Schultz
“Federal program and services outlay in Puerto Rico is approximately $10 billion per year.” YearsProgramBillionsPuerto RicoRico Author:Dick Thornburgh
“There were only 75 people in my graduating class at the school I attended in Hannah, S.C. It was a small school and that translated into not a lot of opportunities when it came to music. We had academic and sports programs but we never had a consistent music program. We would have a band one year, and a chorus one year, but nothing ever lasted.” PeopleYearsSchoolOpportunitySportsClassBandProgramConsistentGraduatesAcademicChorusGraduating Class Author:Josh Turner
“In my freshman year in high school, I went to the only public high school in Boston with a theatre program.” YearsSchoolHigh SchoolProgramTheatreBostonFreshmanFreshman YearFreshman Year In High School Author:Donnie Wahlberg
“When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on - series polygamy - until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimension to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.” LoveYearsBelieveStillsOur LivesRelationshipDangerousSweetFailureMonthsGoes OnLoversMen And WomenProgramResponsibleBlameAddSeriesPartnersFulfillmentNovelistsDimensionsWeddingPartnershipOur RelationshipFulfillingGet OverIncompleteLove RelationshipFunny RelationshipPolygamyDeludedCompletingRelationships With OthersStill Life With WoodpeckerLove And RelationshipLong RelationshipRelationship Over Author:Tom Robbins
“Depression is a lot like that: slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mind, a computer program for total negativity will build into your system, making life feel more and more unbearale. But you won't even notice it coming on, thinking that it is somehow normal, something about getter older, about turning eight or about turning twelve or turning fifteeen, and then one day you realize that your entire life is just awful, not worth living, a horror and a black blot on the white terrain of human existence. One morning you wake up afraid you are going to live.” ThinkingFeelsYearsMindHumansHeartLife IsBlackRealizingWhiteExistenceMorningHorrorOne DayNormalComputerProgramWake UpEightAwfulDataTwelveNegativityHeart And MindWorth LivingHuman ExistenceTerrainProzac Nation Author:Elizabeth Wurtzel
“Home. Home was BAMA, the Sprawl, the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis. Program a map to display frequency of data exchange, every thousand megabytes a single pixel on a very large screen. Manhattan and Atlanta burn solid white. Then they start to pulse, the rate of traffic threatening to overload your simulation. Your map is about to go nova. Cool it down. Up your scale. Each pixel a million megabytes. At a hundred million megabytes per second, you begin to make out certain blocks in midtown Manhattan, outlines of hundred-year-old industrial parks ringing the old core of Atlanta.” YearsHomeCertainWhiteMillionsThousandHundredProgramRateScreensCoreScalesBlockDataParksMapsDisplayTrafficThreateningBostonFrequencyPulseManhattanOutlinesAtlantaMake OutAxesSimulationOverloadMetropolitanHome HomeNovasPixels Book:Neuromancer Source: Neuromancer
“Shogo looked at Shuya and Noriko. "The winner's forced to transfer to another school where he or she is ordered not to mention the game and is instructed instead to lead a normal life. That's all." Shuya felt his chest well up inside and his face froze. He stared at Shogo and realized that Noriko was holding her breath. Shogo said, "I was a student in Third Year Class C, Second District, Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture." He added, "I survived the Program held in Hyogo Prefecture last year.” YearsWellsSaidSchoolLastsFacesGamesFeltClassStudentsNormalProgramThirdsBreathsWinnerChestsLast YearSurvivedTransfersNormal Life Author:Koushun Takami
“Getting the government to put money into social programs run by religious institutions is a practice that started during the Clinton years, when Bill Clinton advocated the AmeriCorps program.” YearsGovernmentRunningSocialReligiousPracticeProgramInstitutionsBillsClintonSocial Programs Author:Tony Campolo
“The first time I ever saw snow skis was when I was 62 years old and that was 19 years ago and I'm still skiing. So, we'll be skiing with some very close friends of the Carter Center letting them know what the Carter Center is doing around the world. We have programs in over 65 countries.” KnowsWorldYearsFirstsStillsCountrySawsFirst TimeYears AgoProgramSnowAround The WorldCarterClose FriendsSkisSkiing Author:Jimmy Carter
“TooDamn-Funky: It's a start, ok. Been thinking bout the boyz. 'member last year my bro did that immersion thing in Venezuela? Kciker5525: Where he learned to speak Spanish??? TooDamn-Funky: Yeah! u go for 2 weeks talk nothing but Spanish u come back fluent. Kicker5535: ...???? TooDamn-Funky: Well this is like a guy immersion program! Kicker5525: So...what. I'm going 2 b fluent in GUY? TooDamn-Funky: Exactly! u will c what they talk about alone. U will c how they r with each other. U will c how they THINK!! AND WHEN IT'S DONE YOU'LL BE ABLE TO WRITE A GUY GUIDE BOOK!! Kicker5525: U r deranged.” ThinkingWritingYearsWellsBookDoneAbleLastsGuySpeakWeekMembersProgramYeahGuidesLast YearVenezuelaBrosFunkyFluentImmersionDeranged Author:Kate Brian
“Supporters of this fundamental change in immigration policy say we need to import more well-educated talent if we're to stay competitive. But exactly whose competitiveness are we talking about? Not the competitiveness of, say, American-born computer engineers. Adjusted for inflation, their earnings haven't gone anywhere in years. That's in part because American companies have been sending so much of their high-tech work abroad. Bringing more foreign-born engineers here under an expanded H1-B visa program, or a point system for that matter, will just depress wages even further.” IfsNeedsYearsWellsHas BeensMatterBornCompanyTalkingGoneTalentHavensPolicyComputerProgramFundamentalsImmigrationEducatedEngineersDepressingEarningSupporterWagesInflationImportsCompetitivenessVisaWell EducatedImmigration Policy Author:Ronald Reagan
“The frustrations have been festering for 12 years because federal policy has forced immigration into this area with no programs to accommodate this thrust and no dollars for education or jobs or social services...we have become a repository but no beneficiary of federal actions.” YearsHas BeensActionJobsSocialPolicyAreasProgramDollarsImmigrationFrustrationThrustAccommodateSocial ServiceBeneficiariesFestering Author:Sharon Pratt Kelly
“How can it be, in a country as strong and rich as this one, that tens of thousands of Americans who need legal representation are turned away every year because their government won't support the very program designed to help them?” NeedsYearsCountryHelpingGovernmentStrongJusticeSupportRichProgramRepresentation Author:Ron Wyden
“With respect to the creation of the program, I introduced the bill in September 1945, immediately after the end of the war with Japan, in August of that year. A number of considerations, of course, entered into my decision to introduce the bill, growing from my own experience as a Rhodes scholar and the experiences our government had had with the first Word War debts, [Herbert] Hoover's efforts in establishing the Belgian-American Education Foundation after World War I, [and] the Boxer Rebellion indemnity.” WorldYearsFirstsWarEndsGovernmentCoursesMy OwnDecisionNumbersEffortGrowingCreationProgramFoundationBillsEducationalDebtWar Of The WorldsConsiderationJapanRebellionScholarWorld War IIntroducingSeptemberAugustBoxersHooverAmerican EducationBelgians Author:J. William Fulbright
“Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy.” YearsGovernmentResultsWasteProgramAbuseDollarsCreditBillionsCardsAgencyFederal GovernmentBureaucracyEntitlementCredit CardMisuseGovernment BureaucracyMismanagementEntitlement ProgramsGovernment AgenciesGovernment Waste Author:Chris Chocola
“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
“The Republican candidates are talking about ways to transition this program and it is a monstrous lie. It is a ponzi scheme to tell our kids that are 25 or 30 years old today, you're paying into a program that's going to be there. Anybody that's for the status quo with Social Security today is involved with a monstrous lie to our kids, and it's not right.” WayYearsKidsTodayLyingSocialTalkingCrazySecurityInvolvedRepublicanProgramCandidatesTransitionSchemesStatus QuoSocial SecurityMonstrousPonzi Scheme Author:Rick Perry
“I saw something in a program on something in Miami, and they were saying, "We've redecorated this building to how it looked over 50 years ago!" And people were going, "No, surely not, no. No one was alive then."” PeopleYearsSawsAliveBuildingYears AgoProgramFakeFake PeopleMiamiOver 50 Author:Eddie Izzard
“...it ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine over, say, a twenty-five-year period.” YearsEnergyGoalEnvironmentFiveOughtPeriodsProgramTwentiesClimate ChangeAccomplishFive YearsInternalsEnginesStrategicTwenty FiveEliminatingCombustion Author:Al Gore
“A year ago I had a back injury and followed a good nutrition program to help speed up my recovery. I focused on exercise and staying healthy in order to get back out on the ice.” YearsHelpingOrderSportsExerciseHealthyYears AgoProgramFocusedSpeedRecoveryIceInjuryStayingGet BackFitnessNutritionStay StrongGood Nutrition Author:Sasha Cohen
“A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift, is approaching spiritual death.I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube. So I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor.” MenYearsLongWarAmericaSpiritualEnergyNationsSocialPoorSilenceEnemyMilitaryAdventureSkillsDrawsProgramRelationBetrayalDefenseUpliftingDestructiveFundVietnamAntiwarMore MoneySilence IsCompelledTubesRehabilitationDemonicBreaking SilenceSpiritual Death Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.” YearsI CanIdeasProblemHandsUsedStepsWindYears AgoProgramToolsSolveProgrammingLogicalPatents Author:John Carmack
“I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself.” YearsBelieveMightStepsHappenedProgramCommitted12 Step Author:Carrie Fisher
“Republicans don't have to accept evolution, economics, climatology, or human sexuality, but I just watched a week of their national convention, and I need them to admit the historical existence of George W. Bush. If your party can run the nation for eight years and then have a national convention and not invite Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Karl Rove, or Tom DeLay, you're not a political movement, you're the witness protection program.” IfsNeedsYearsHumansRunningPoliticalNationsPartyExistenceAcceptingWeekMovementEvolutionRepublicanProgramEconomicsHistoricalEightSexualityProtectionWitnessInvitesConventionsTomsDelayPolitical Movements Author:Bill Maher
“I remember when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's Circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the program which I most desired to see was the one described as ‘The Boneless Wonder’. My parents judged that the spectacle would be too demoralizing and revolting for my youthful eye and I have waited fifty years, to see The Boneless Wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench.” YearsChildrenWould BeEyeRememberParentWonderTakenSittingProgramFiftyJudgedFreakRemember WhenCircusExhibitsBenchesTreasuryExhibitionsMonstrosityDemoralizing Author:Winston Churchill
“I am proud to be part of the Toys for Tots program for a second year. In addition to giving kids the chance to design a special The UPS Store/Toys for Tots car, this contest is a great way for children to learn about the importance of charitable giving.” WayGivingYearsChildrenKidsChanceSpecialCarDesignProudProgramImportanceStoresToysContestsCharitableTotsCharitable Giving Author:Dale Jarrett
“Does it sound outrageous to you that military spending for fiscal year 2000 will be almost $290 billion and all other domestic discretionary spending, such as education, job training, housing, Amtrak, medical research, environment, Head Start and many other worthwhile programs will total $246 billion, the biggest disparity in modern times ?” YearsDoeJobsSoundEnvironmentModernMilitaryTrainingResearchProgramSpendingMedicalBillionsWorthwhileHousingOutrageousDisparityModern TimesMedical ResearchHead StartJob TrainingMilitary SpendingAmtrak Author:Dale Bumpers
“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
“I was on the San Diego school board for 4 years, where I watched children successfully matriculate into elementary schools from Head Start programs from all around our city.” YearsChildrenSchoolCitiesProgramBoardsElementary SchoolSan DiegoHead StartSchool Board Author:Bob Filner