“I will take a backseat to no one in keeping America safe. I have a very clear set of proposals about how we defeat ISIS.” AmericaClearSafeDefeatProposalIsisBackseat Author:Hillary Clinton
“It's a tract against capital punishment in the genre of Swift's Modest Proposal. I was simply following a formula to its logical conclusion. Some people appear to have understood it. The publication of Naked Lunch in England practically coincided with their abolition of capital punishment. The book obviously had a certain effect.” PeopleBookCertainEffectsUnderstoodEnglandFollowingPunishmentNakedConclusionGenreLogicalFormulasLunchModestProposalPublicationAbolitionCapital Punishment Author:William S. Burroughs
“I'm against Capitol Punishment in all forms, and I have written many pamphlets on this subject in the manner of Swift's Modest Proposal pamphlet incorporated into Naked Lunch; these pamphlets have marked Naked Lunch as an obscene book.” BookFormWrittenSubjectsPunishmentNakedLunchModestProposalObsceneCapitol Author:William S. Burroughs
“Hillary Clinton and I have worked together on a higher education proposal which will guarantee free tuition in public colleges and universities for every family in this country making $125,000 a year or less. We're going to fight for paid family and medical leave. Those are the issues that the American people want to hear discussed, and I'm going to go around the country discussing them and making sure that Hillary Clinton is elected president.” PeopleWantYearsCountryTogetherFightingPresidentIssuesCollegeHigherPaidClintonUniversityMedicalGuaranteesProposalDiscussingHigher EducationTuitionColleges And Universities Author:Bernie Sanders
“It seems that's where Bill Clinton came in last night because he told this long story about how they met [with Hillary Clinton], how he courted her, how he bought a house to convince her, I think after the third proposal, to actually marry him. And he talked about her activism and her commitment and everything. And it was as if he could tell the narrative in a way that she couldn't.” IfsThinkingWayLongStoriesSeemsLastsNightHouseMetsCommitmentThirdsBillsClintonActivismNarrativeConvinceLast NightProposalLong Story Author:Terry Gross
“I have a number of proposals how to tackle this issue of self radicalization. I would set up a team exclusively dedicated to detecting and preventing lone wolf attacks.” SelfNumbersIssuesTeamDedicatedProposalPreventingLoneLone Wolf Author:Hillary Clinton
“There is another part of his policy that we`re unclear about, which is how - whether he`s going to stick to this proposal to ban Muslim immigrants. It is amazing that we`re less than 70 days away from the election and we`re all waiting with kind of baited breath to find out what is [Donald] Trump`s immigration policy, right?” KindWaitingPolicyTrumpBreathsElectionSticksImmigrationImmigrantsProposalBansUnclearImmigration Policy Author:Michelle Goldberg
“[How to think about a problem:] The first step is to make the problem specific . . . ; The second step is to form theories freely of how to rid yourself of that burden . . . ; The third step is to develop in foresight the consequences of your proposals . . . ; The fourth and final step in thinking is to compare the consequences of your proposals to see which is best in the light of your scheme of life as a whole . . . ; Whether you choose a vacation or a spouse, a party or a candidate, a cause to contribute to or a creed to live by - think!” ThinkingFirstsWholeProblemLightFormCausesPartyStepsTheoryConsequenceThirdsFinalsBurdenCompareCandidatesLive ByVacationYou ChooseFourthFirst StepsCreedsSchemesSpouseProposalForesight Author:Brand Blanshard
“There is a proposal to divide the currency zone into a north and a south euro. There is also the idea of setting up a core monetary union in the middle of Europe. I disapprove of these debates. Instead, we should devote all of our efforts to supplementing the monetary union with a political union.” ShouldIdeasPoliticalEffortMiddleEuropeUnionsSouthDebateCoreSettingSettingsZoneDividesCurrencyProposalMonetaryEuro Author:Jean-Claude Juncker
“The position of EU commissioner for economic and monetary affairs could be combined with the office of Euro Group chairman. That job would be a great challenge for anyone who assumed it. On the one hand, he would have to make proposals. On the other hand, he would have to negotiate compromises with his European counterparts.” HandsWould BeJobsChallengesGroupsEconomicPositionOfficeAffairCompromiseProposalChairmanMonetaryEuroCounterpartsCommissioners Author:Jean-Claude Juncker
“A joint European army is a very far-reaching proposal and it would be difficult to implement. Such initiatives are nevertheless needed.” Would BeDifficultNeededArmyReachingInitiativeNeverthelessJointsProposal Author:Martin Schulz
“The editor, Stephen Segal, actually called me with the idea of creating an accordion book [ "The Thorn & The Blossom"], and asked if I could write a story for it. I was so intrigued! I immediately knew that it had to be a love story told from the points of view of the two main characters. Right away, I started working on a proposal. And once I had my main characters, Brendan and Evelyn, it was as though they started telling me their stories.” IfsWritingTwoBookIdeasCharacterStoriesViewsCreatingPoint Of ViewLove StoryIf I CouldEditorsProposalIntriguedMain CharactersAccordions Author:Theodora Goss
“Bill Shorten should - either knows that or at least he should know it and for him to change the conversation by proposing - by suggesting a proposal significantly more adventurous than where the conversation has been up until now was a very unhelpful intervention.” KnowsShouldHas BeensConversationBillsInterventionProposalAdventurousSuggesting Author:George Brandis
“Bernie Sanders says that the biggest banks that dominate the economy should be broken up into smaller banks. This would be far more radical than Hillary Clinton's proposals to regulate Wall Street.” ShouldWould BeEconomyStreetsBrokenWallClintonRadicalProposalBroken Up Author:Kshama Sawant
“I do think that there has to be a legal solution, a legal solution on the part of the nation's legislative branch, an immigration proposal.” ThinkingNationsSolutionsImmigrationBranchesProposalLegislative Branch Author:Marco Rubio
“Look, at actual Republican and conservative think-tank proposals to replace ObamaCare all have the pre-existing condition provision in, done somewhat differently from [Barack] President Obama's.” ThinkingLooksDonePresidentConditionsRepublicanConservativeBarackPresident ObamaProposalTanksProvisionObamacare Author:William Kristol
“The Kansas secretary of state Kris Kobach who helped write the immigration laws in Arizona said that [Donald] Trump's policy advisors are drafting, they're discussing drafting a proposal, to reinstate a registry for immigrants from Muslim countries.” WritingSaidCountryStatesLawPolicyTrumpImmigrationImmigrantsSecretaryProposalDiscussingArizonaKansasAdvisorsImmigration LawsDrafting Author:Megyn Kelly
“The most positive policy proposal [Donald] Trump will bring to the table as president is his desire to improve and strengthen relations between the U.S. and Russia, which have deteriorated badly in recent years.” YearsDesirePresidentPolicyTrumpRelationTablesRussiaProposal Author:David Krieger
“We started off with a set of objectives for what we needed to communicate with the company's identity, created several proposals intended to meet those objectives, and picked the one that did the best job.” JobsCompanyIdentityNeededCommunicateObjectivesProposalBest Job Author:Gabe Newell
“In the case of immigration, there has never been a majority for any of the proposals put forth by either party - executive amnesty or whatever other plan there is - to essentially legalize them and make them voters. There is not the majority support for any plan that either party has put forward. It is a gigantic issue.” PartyCasesSupportIssuesPlansMajorityImmigrationExecutivesVotersProposalAmnesty Author:Rush Limbaugh
“[Bill Jensen] shared his extensive publishing background with me, and prayerfully offered to work out a proposal and to see if God opened any publishing doors? I never get over the unexpected ways of God.” IfsWayDoorsBillsWork OutBackgroundsUnexpectedPublishingGet OverProposal Author:Ann Voskamp
“The world is experiencing great change, but you've got loads of people terrified of this change and the Donald Trumps, the Boris Johnsons making utterly simplistic, reductionist policy proposals that are unrealistic but then people buy it up.” PeopleWorldPolicyTrumpLoadTerrifiedProposalJohnsonGreat Change Author:Moby
“As a state, as a government, in 2001 we proposed to the United Nations to empty or to get rid of every WMD in the Middle East, and the United States stood against that proposal. This is our conviction and policy.” StatesGovernmentNationsUnitedUnited StatesMiddlePolicyEmptyConvictionEastMiddle EastUnited NationsProposalWmd Author:Bashar al-Assad
“There's an interesting question, whether the anarchists had alternatives [in Spain]. If they did tend to support the government that had been destroyed, what were the alternatives? There was actually a proposal by Camillo Berneri, an Italian anarchist who was in Spain at the time, which is not a crazy notion in my opinion. He opposed participation in government and was against the formation of an army, meaning a major army to fight [Francisco] Franco.” IfsGovernmentFightingInterestingOpinionSupportCrazyMajorsArmyNotionDestroyedAlternativesItalianParticipationSpainProposalAnarchistFormationFrancoFrancisco Franco Author:Noam Chomsky
“I think Shidzo Abe's proposal may be the only way to achieving our goal.” ThinkingWayMayGoalAchieveProposalAbe Author:Vladimir Putin
“Here is an example: while resolving current issues, our American colleagues made a proposal on the Syrian settlement but then suddenly declared at the UN that they were not going to discuss anything with us. It is necessary to understand what people want in one department versus another department of the United States. Do they have a common position? And this happened many times on very many areas of our cooperation.” PeopleWantMadeStatesUnitedCommonUnited StatesIssuesHappenedExamplePositionAreasCurrentsDepartmentCooperationColleaguesVersusProposalSettlement Author:Vladimir Putin
“That is [Edward Said] proposal as to how the term should be used. It surely does not describe those who are called "intellectuals" in standard usage, as he would be the first to agree.” ShouldFirstsDoeSaidWould BeUsedTermStandardsAgreeProposalUsage Author:Noam Chomsky
“One can neither agree nor disagree with a terminological proposal, as long as it is clear that it is just that: terminological.” LongClearAgreeDisagreeProposal Author:Noam Chomsky
“In the United States, there hasn't been much legislative change on the surveillance issue, although there are some tepid proposals.” StatesUnitedUnited StatesIssuesProposalSurveillance Author:Edward Snowden
“Whenever government proposes to get involved in the regulation of trade, just be very, very careful about who's behind this proposal, what their motives are.” GovernmentBehindsInvolvedTradeCarefulMotiveRegulationGet InvolvedProposalPropose Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“Unbeknownst to me, two readers of the posts, both published authors, contacted their agent, Bill Jensen, within 24 hours of each other, encouraging him to drop me a line. Which he did. He shared his extensive publishing background with me, and prayerfully offered to work out a proposal and to see if God opened any publishing doors? I never get over the unexpected ways of God.” IfsWayTwoHoursLinesDoorsReaderBillsWork OutBackgroundsAgentsPostsUnexpectedPublishingGet OverProposal Author:Ann Voskamp
“In entirely unrelated news, there's a new proposal to mandate coverage for gay infertility. The problem is that gay infertility is just biology. Two men and two women are not infertile. They're just not capable of impregnating each other. This isn't a medical problem. It's a mental problem.” MenTwoProblemGayNewsCapableMedicalBiologyProposalCoverageMandatesInfertilityMedical Problems Author:David Horowitz
“Our proposal had more than just money. We would increase their staff and keep their headquarters, their brand and their management in place. We made them a comprehensive offer they couldn't refuse. Shareholders simply receive cash, but with the staff and management, we had to show that we could share the same vision. Employees would probably resent us if money were all [we offered].” IfsMadeShowsVisionShareOffersIncreaseManagementRefuseBrandsEmployeeCashStaffProposalComprehensiveResentShareholdersHeadquarters Author:Masayoshi Son
“Luckily for [Barack] Obama, the Russians came along and rescued him with this proposal [to confiscate Assad's chemical weapons] which he quickly accepted - it was a way out of the embarrassment of facing likely defeat. They still have the option of bombing if they want to. And incidentally, to add one comment about this, you'll notice that this would be a very good moment to institute a call for imposing the Chemical Weapons Convention on the Middle East.” IfsWayWantStillsMomentsWould BeMiddleWeaponsAddVery GoodDefeatEastAcceptedBarackCommentChemicalsConventionsMiddle EastProposalEmbarrassmentInstituteBombingImposingAssadChemical WeaponsGood Moments Author:Noam Chomsky
“If [climate change ] became a serious proposal in the United States, there would be a huge propaganda onslaught by the business community, the energy corporations and many others, to try to frighten the population into opposing it - claiming that if they have it, all sorts of terrible things will happen, like you won't be able to heat your home, or whatever the story is.” IfsTryingStatesStoriesHomeHappensWould BeAbleEnergyCommunityUnitedUnited StatesSeriousHugeLike YouTerribleClimateClimate ChangePopulationCorporationsPropagandaHeatProposalTerrible ThingsOpposing Author:Noam Chomsky
“Five years after Boston 1967, I went to the Munich Olympics. I realized that major sponsorship could help me create the opportunity. I wrote a big proposal to Avon cosmetics on how creating a global series of women's races could lead to getting women in the Olympic marathon. People thought I was smoking poppy at the time. The longest event in the Olympic Games was 800m.” PeopleYearsHelpingBigsOpportunityGamesRaceFiveEventsCreatingMajorsSeriesI RealizedFive YearsSmokingHelp MeOlympicsBostonMarathonProposalCosmeticsOlympic GamesPoppiesMunichSponsorshipAvon Author:Kathrine Switzer
“I really am thankful that I got to do The Proposal movie the right way with people who taught me how to do comedy better.” PeopleWayComedyTaughtRight WayProposal Author:Sandra Bullock
“I didn't watch any films. This film, The Proposal, had it all in the script. Once all the pieces, once I met Anne Fletcher and I knew what she wanted and that we wanted the same things, and once they said Ryan Reynolds was on board and once the casting came together, you saw what it wanted to be.” SaidWantedTogetherFilmWatchesSawsPiecesMetsScriptsBoardsThey SaidCastingProposal Author:Sandra Bullock
“The costume designer designing clothes that helped the comedy in The Proposal, that sold the character. Each and every detail was so perfectly thought of, what wouldn't be here? That's a lost art.” ArtCharacterLostComedyDesignClothesDetailsDesignerCostumesProposalLost Art Author:Sandra Bullock
“LSD is no longer playing a bad role in the drug scene and psychiatrists are again trying to submit their proposals for research with this substance to the health authorities. I hope that LSD will again become available in the normal way, for the medical profession. Then it could play the role it really should, a beneficial role.” WayShouldTryingPlayRolesSceneDrugAuthorityNormalResearchAvailableProfessionMedicalSubstanceSubmitBeneficialProposalPsychiatristLsdMedical Profession Author:Albert Hofmann
“I think the Ronald Reagan tax reform proposals are a step toward distributive justice. They redistribute the tax burden more equitably and more progressively among individuals and call upon business to carry a somewhat larger proportion of the total tax load. Both of these are steps toward equity and distributive justice.” ThinkingIndividualJusticeTaxesBurdenEquityProposal Author:Bruce Babbitt
“The Russian ambassador at the United Nations did make some proposals for a political settlement in which Bashar Assad would be slowly eased out. The West dismissed it immediately, and we don't know if it was real, because it didn't come from the Kremlin, and it was informal. But the point is every such proposal is immediately scotched. And you just don't know if they're real.” RealPoliticalUnited NationsProposalSettlement Author:Noam Chomsky
“I do not, right now in this moment today, want to be married. After entertaining proposals, researching the cost of a wedding, and looking at friends who are married, I realized that if I do get married one day, I want it to be in the right situation with the right person.” MomentsTodaySituationOne DayMarriedI RealizedProposalBeing MarriedRight Person Author:Sara Benincasa
“If Margaret Thatcher were running for president today we wouldn't have focus groups and we wouldn't have one day focusing on 'change' and the next day focusing on likability. If Margaret Thatcher were campaigning, we would be treated to a smorgasbord of great ideas, proposals for the future of the country. Nobody would even be thinking about that.” ThinkingCountryRunningTodayPresidentFocusOne DayProposalGreat IdeaCampaigning Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Another way in which our system is unfair. Why do Iowans get so much of a bigger voice every four years than everybody else? Ditto for New Hampshire. There are proposals and it could well happen that we could have a rotating calendar where different years different states went first. I would endorse that.” DifferentUnfairProposal Author:Frank Bruni
“I tell the truth and I don't try to sugarcoat things. But I also decided that if you don't use humor or satire, then it's just too dark all the time. And one of my favorite literary works is A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift. As you know, that was an enormously famous satire piece that was able to point out, you know, things to people in a different way. And I do believe that satire and humor can reveal truth in a way that sometimes doesn't get revealed through other means. And so I decided to, every now and then, use satire and humor as well.” PeopleTryingBelieveMeanDifferentSometimesDarkMy FavoriteTelling The TruthSatireNow And ThenModestProposal Author:Ted Lieu
“I think Donald Trump does want a result. He clearly, in the meeting that we had was trying to sort of push the process along, realizing that the Senate has a role to play and that there are differences of opinion. I think he wants it to be a health care plan, proposal that we can go out there and defend and that he can defend and argue for to the American people.” PeopleThinkingTryingCareRealizingOpinionMeetingsArguingHealth CareProposal Author:John Thune
“It's my preferred working style to have bipartisan legislation. I think what the Democrats have made clear is that they don't want to deal with anything that repeals and replaces Obamacare. I think they wouldn't want to do anything that gets rid of the mandates, which is a big part of our proposal, getting rid of the individual employer mandates.” ThinkingIndividualStyleDemocratProposal Author:John Thune
“Sometime in the near future we'll have a vote on repealing Obamacare, essentially the same vote that we had in 2015. I would remind everyone that in that proposal there's a two-year delay, a two-year delay which would give us the opportunity to work out a complete replacement on a bipartisan basis with our Democratic friends.” GivingOpportunityVoteDemocraticWork OutProposal Author:Mitch McConnell
“Even though we still don't know any precise details, we're already making it clear that some proposals like a border tax or "buy-American" regulations are heading in a protectionist direction. The Americans' sudden proposal to classify certain steel products as national security-related is also something that we find highly problematic.” TaxesNational SecurityProposal Author:Cecilia Malmstrom