“I wrote "Win" for people on both sides, legitimately on both sides. If you're a Democrat listening to this right now, you - the whole playbook is in this book. If you're a Republican, and you're frustrated because Barack Obama is a great communicator, the playbook is in this book. And if you're a corporation who wants to satisfy his - their employees, how to do it is in this book. And finally, if you're an employee and you want to get a raise, whether at NPR or anyplace else, it's in this book.” PeopleIfsWantBookWholeWinningSidesListeningRepublicanRight NowRaisesDemocratBarackCorporationsEmployeeFrustratedBoth SidesCommunicatorsNprPlaybooks Author:Frank Luntz
“We're talking about should we increase taxes? Why not put a tax on carbon emissions. It would raise a lot of money, it would reduce the environmental damages in the future, it would solve so many problems, and it would be a much more constructive thing to do than to think about raising the income tax.” ThinkingShouldProblemWould BeTalkingTaxesIncreaseRaisesEnvironmentalSolveIncomeThings To DoDamageWhy NotLots Of MoneyCarbonConstructiveEmissionsIncome TaxCarbon EmissionsEnvironmental Damage Author:Robert F. Engle
“The Problem is: many terrific women have made themselves overqualified for the job of wife, because many men are looking for a woman with 'receptionist-level wife skills', not 'CEO-level wife skills'. Meaning: If a woman doesn't hang on a man's every word, is too independent, challenges his leadership, wants to create her own hours, demands emotional raises, then there won't be as many openings for the kind of wife position she is seeking. One of the big problems with marriages in the nineties: no room for two husbands.” IfsMenWantKindMadeTwoProblemBigsJobsHoursChallengesLevelsRoomsWifePositionEmotionalSkillsHusbandDemandIndependentRaisesSeekingOpeningCeoTerrificHeartlessBig ProblemsReceptionistsOverqualified Author:Karen Salmansohn
“A time-tested political tactic guaranteed to raise a president's popularity rating by at least 30 points. It is especially useful during election years and economic downturns.” YearsWarPoliticalPeacePresidentEconomicRaisesElectionPopularityTestedTacticsRatingDownturnElection YearsEconomic Downturn Author:Chaz Bufe
“My personal attitude is this: I will stand for revival, unity and prayer; I will labor to restore healing and reconciliation between God's people. Yet, if all God truly wanted was to raise up one fully yielded son--a son who would refuse to be offended, refuse to react, refuse to harbor unforgiveness regardless of those who slander and persecute--I have determined to be that person. My primary goal in all things is not revival, but to bring pleasure to Christ.” PeopleIfsPersonsWantedGoalChristPrayerPleasureHealingAttitudeSonLaborAll ThingsRaisesUnityRefuseDeterminedPrimariesOffendedReconciliationRevivalHarborsSlanderRaise Up Author:Francis Frangipane
“To raise children you must have love and a wholesome understanding, and that is why a parent should pray fervently for their own salvation, so that their own sin does not get in the way. We can be saved from irritation and anger! Children can quickly sense if their parents are irritated, and then the children can be easily provoked and react stubbornly.” IfsWayShouldChildrenDoeParentUnderstandingSinPrayingRaisesSalvationSavedDaily LifeIrritatedIrritationProvoked Author:Esther Smith
“We all need to be compassionate and know that its is a game for all of us to win, we have to be on the same page and raise our level of awareness of what's possible and the awareness of how powerful we are and how good we need to be to each other.” KnowsNeedsGamesWinningLevelsPowerfulAwarenessPagesRaisesCompassionate Author:John Assaraf
“One hundred thousand dollars was the bridge that enabled me to go on TV, not miss a beat or miss an opportunity, and raise then my own money to carry me forth. And that's how I got to be the first Democratic woman in the United States Senate's history.” FirstsStatesOpportunityMy OwnUnitedUnited StatesMissingTvsGoes OnThousandBeatsHundredRaisesDollarsDemocraticBridgesSenate Author:Barbara Mikulski
“How many times did we hear [Barack] Obama say, 'You didn't build that. You didn't build that - no, you need government.' We even saw Hillary Clinton say - remember her phrase - 'It takes a village to raise a child.' In other words, your children are not your children - they belong to the community.” NeedsChildrenGovernmentRememberCommunitySawsOur ChildrenRaisesClintonBarackYour ChildrenPhrasesVillageIt Takes A VillageIt Takes A Village To Raise A ChildVillage To Raise A Child Author:Rafael Cruz
“Many people who live in big countries like ours thought that we had resources that would work for us for many, many years, but that was a mistake. Our natural wealth corrupted us. In this country, you were among the first to raise environmental issues. In Russia, despite all of its problems today, people are concerned about the environment, and it's become a central issue on the agenda.” PeopleYearsFirstsCountryProblemBigsTodayNaturalWealthMistakeIssuesEnvironmentResourcesConcernedRaisesEnvironmentalRussiaDespiteAgendasEnvironmental Issues Author:Mikhail Gorbachev
“I should say the leadership's proposal in the Senate and the House are very unpopular. And when people realize it will raise taxes, raise their insurance premiums cost and explode the deficit, they think twice about it.” PeopleThinkingShouldHouseRealizingCostTaxesRaisesSenateDeficitProposalThink Twice Author:Rahm Emanuel
“In supporting argument for segregation, Paul [the apostol] addresses the people in his epistle to the Colossians, and he tells them how to treat their slaves. "Slaves, obey your masters. Masters, be kind to yourslaves." Paul was in favor of a kinder and gentler slavery; it never occurred to him to raise the question about whether slavery itself was immoral.” PeopleKindMastersArgumentTreatsRaisesSlaverySlaveFavorsAddressesBe KindImmoralSegregationKinderColossians Author:John Shelby Spong
“After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.” ChildrenMadeSchoolMy FriendsRaisesMy ChildrenOscarsSalaryMaidsPopular SongButchers Author:Shirley Jones
“I'm not trying to say stop Donald Trump from being elected as his party's nominee. I'm saying that we have a responsibility to raise our voices, to say what he does as an American citizen is pretty destructive to the practice of goodhearted and conscientious politics.” TryingDoeVoicePartyResponsibilityPracticeTrumpCitizensRaisesDestructiveAmerican Citizens Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“We must look back over our lives and look at some of the accidents and curiosities and oddities and troubles and sicknesses and begin to see more in those things than we saw before. It raises questions, so that when peculiar little accidents happen, you ask whether there is something else at work in your life.” LooksLittlesHappensAsksSawsOur LivesTroubleRaisesCuriosityAccidentsSicknessPeculiarOdditiesAccidents HappenRaises Questions Author:James Hillman
“Let there be no mistake, Sen Sanders, his campaign and the vigorous debate that we've had about how to raise incomes, how to reduce inequality, increase upward mobility, has been very good for the Democratic Party and for America.” Has BeensAmericaPartyMistakeIncreaseRaisesDemocraticVery GoodCampaignsDebateIncomeInequalityDemocratic PartyVigorousMobilityUpward Mobility Author:Hillary Clinton
“I grew up in the church, with traditional hymns, but at the same time I was beginning to listen to pop music, the mid-60s, The Beatles, which had just as much influence on me as those hymns did. Then the hippy stuff like Pink Floyd started to raise questions about how I lived my life and the world in which I lived.” WorldStuffChurchInfluenceGrewGrew UpRaisesPopsTraditionalPop MusicHymnsRaises Questions Author:Alan Green
“My first banjo? My mother's sister, my aunt, lived about a mile from where we did, and she raised some hogs. And she had - her - the hog - the mother - they called the mother a sow - of a hog. And she had some pigs. Well, the pigs were real pretty, and I was going to high school and I was taking agriculture in school. And I sort of got a notion that I'd like to do that, raise some hogs. And so my aunt had this old banjo, and my mother told me, said, which do you want, the pig or a banjo? And each one of them's $5 each. I said, I'll just take the banjo.” WantFirstsWellsSaidRealSchoolMotherHigh SchoolRaisesRaisedNotionMilesPigsAgricultureAuntHogBanjosGoing To High School Author:Ralph Stanley
“The tactic of leading people into... a war that doesn't make any sense by telling them they are under attack, and if they raise any objection they're unpatriotic, is a very old tactic. And it doesn't intimidate me.” PeopleIfsWarRaisesTacticsIntimidatingObjectionsUnpatriotic Author:Tommy Lee Jones
“I don't know if tennis players feel like that but when you have a great opponent - although I didn't feel like he [ Ben Mendelsohn ] was an opponent - you just know your game is going to jack up and it's just going to raise the bar. I couldn't wait for that elevation.” IfsKnowsFeelsGamesWaitingPlayerRaisesBarsOpponentsTennisElevationTennis PlayerRaising The Bar Author:John Leguizamo
“Actually, high housing prices don't help the economy. They raise the cost of living.” HelpingEconomyCostRaisesHousingCost Of Living Author:Michael Hudson
“The underlying strategy of the Fed is to tell people, "Do you want your money to lose value in the bank, or do you want to put it in the stock market?" They're trying to push money into the stock market, into hedge funds, to temporarily bid up prices. Then, all of a sudden, the Fed can raise interest rates, let the stock market prices collapse and the people will lose even more in the stock market than they would have by the negative interest rates in the bank. So it's a pro-Wall Street financial engineering gimmick.” PeopleWantTryingValuesInterestLosesStreetsWallNegativeRaisesStrategyRateFinancialFundFedsEngineeringCollapseInterest RateGimmicksHedge Fund Author:Michael Hudson
“I think what Lawrence did was provide an assurance that gay and lesbian couples could live openly in society as free people and start families and raise families and participate fully in their communities without fear. And two things flowed from that, I think. One is that has brought us to the point where we understand now in a way even that we did not fully understand in Lawrence, that gay and lesbian people and gay and lesbian couples are full and equal members of the community.” PeopleThinkingWayTwoCommunityCoupleGayEqualMembersRaisesTwo ThingsAssurance Author:Donald Verrilli Jr.
“I have a 22-year-old son, and when my son was born I made a decision to raise him. My husband and I took turns working, and it's easier to raise a kid in the documentary world, where you go away for two weeks or three weeks rather than the months that you spend on a feature. That was and still is much more open to women DPs than the world of fiction.” WorldYearsMadeStillsTwoKidsTurnsThreeBornDecisionFictionWeekSonMonthsEasierHusbandRaisesFeaturesGoing AwayMy HusbandMy SonDocumentariesTwo Weeks Author:Maryse Alberti
“The idea for Anthem the play began over twenty years ago. I was assisting in the production of another Ayn Rand work, Ideal. I moved to New York and began working on producing the play with my partners. And as a way to raise money to cover some venture debt, we decided to stage Anthem for a limited run at the Lex Theatre in Hollywood.” WayYearsIdeasPlayRunningStageNew YorkIdealsYears AgoDecidedHollywoodTwentiesRaisesMovedProductionsDebtTheatrePartnersVentureAnthemAssisting Author:Jeff Britting
“Most of the food crops raised in the world today are fed to livestock destined for slaughter for us to eat, and most of the water used is used to raise the food crops that are fed to those animals. It has been estimated that, because of the extraordinary amount of grain it takes to raise food animals, if we reduced the amount of meat we eat by only ten percent, that would free up enough grain to feed all the starving humans in the world. So when we choose to eat meat instead of vegetables, we are choosing to take food away from others who are hungry.” IfsWorldHumansHas BeensEnoughTodayUsedWaterAnimalAmountTenPercentRaisesRaisedExtraordinaryHungryMeatFedsVegetablesGrainDestinedStarvingCropsWorld TodaySlaughterLivestock Author:Sharon Gannon
“I want to raise my children in a safe country. I want to help the children in the world who do not feel safe. I know what it feels like to feel unsafe. We need to do way better. Our country needs to do better.” KnowsWorldWayWantNeedsFeelsChildrenCountryHelpingSafeRaisesOur CountryMy ChildrenUnsafe Author:Nia Long
“Although here - Los Angeles 2014 - we can have a lighthearted movie about romance and living your life without persecution, that freedom does not exist in the rest of the world and not even in the rest of our country. There are places where they are going backward, away from freedom. Places where same-sex couples are beaten, killed, not allowed to raise families, forced to hide their lifestyle.” WorldDoeCountryRomanceSexCoupleRaisesLifestyleOur CountryLos AngelesLive Your LifeBeatenPersecution Author:Michael Adam Hamilton
“I believe the biggest advancement in DJ culture is that DJs are being vocal and are a voice to raise the consciousness of the masses towards making our planet awaken from the hypnosis of the matrix.” BelieveCultureI BelieveVoiceConsciousnessPlanetsMassRaisesVocalOur PlanetAdvancementDjsHypnosis Author:DJ QBert
“Things are very rudimentary as far as women's rights really go here, and it seems fine, but once you start scraping the surface, you start to see the ripple effect of how not having equal rights is so detrimental and how many mothers are single parents trying to raise their families.” TryingSeemsMotherParentRightsEffectsFineEqualRaisesSurfaceWomens RightsEqual RightsRippleDetrimentalSingle ParentRipple EffectScraping Author:Patricia Arquette
“A poet is someone Who can pour Light into a spoon, Then raise it To nourish Your beautiful parched, holy mouth.” LightBeautifulPoetHolyMouthsRaisesSpoonsYour Beautiful Author:Hafez
“There are so many people, so many artists, so many magazines, so many theater companies, so many people trying to raise money for so many things that it's easy to look around and just feel powerless or helpless, because even if you have some resources, you can't help everybody.” PeopleIfsFeelsTryingLooksHelpingArtistEasyCompanyResourcesTheaterRaisesMagazinesHelplessPowerless Author:Amanda Palmer
“I've seen young people raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to fix a problem in their community. I've seen young people raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to dig wells in Africa. I've seen young people pass laws, largely impacting their communities. They do have the power to change the world.” PeopleWorldWellsProblemLawYoungCommunityRaisesDollarsChanging The WorldPower To ChangePower To Change The World Author:Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
“It's the end of the day where wives stay home and raise the kids and all that. That demeaning stuff? No more. Country club memberships, that's what you shoot for! To hell with that.” EndsCountryHomeKidsStuffHellWifeRaisesClubsThe End Of The DayMembershipDemeaningCountry Clubs Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think I've set some big goals. The American people haven't had a raise in 15 years. Getting incomes up is a huge goal. Now maybe it's not as exciting to some people, but it's a huge goal.” PeopleThinkingYearsBigsGoalHavensHugeExcitingRaisesIncome Author:Hillary Clinton
“Before you have kids, you just have much less to worry about. It doesn't feel that way, but it's true. Once you have kids, your focus has to change, I think, at least to raise kids right. You can't just focus on yourself; it's too hard.” ThinkingWayFeelsHardKidsWorryFocusRaisesFocus On Yourself Author:Christopher Gorham
“Wind and solar power, energy efficient buildings, cars that go farther on a tank of gas, and other solutions can fight climate change. I know America can get on a more sustainable path - we just have to raise our voices and demand it.” KnowsAmericaFightingEnergyVoicePathCarBuildingWindDemandSolutionsRaisesClimateClimate ChangeGasEfficientTanksSolar Power Author:Frances Beinecke
“I think a Donald Trump presidency raises a new kind of version of conservatism which more closely resembles a kind of Father Coughlin, America first populism and nativism and isolationism, than the confident, modern, cosmopolitan, thoughtful, engaged conservatism of Ronald Reagan and Paul Ryan.” ThinkingFirstsKindAmericaFatherModernTrumpRaisesVersionsEngagedThoughtfulPresidencyConservatismPopulismIsolationism Author:Bret Stephens
“The truth is that fear cannot coexist with love. Therefore, we must learn how to dissolve all boundaries with love by taking responsibility for our own energy. In doing so, we'll raise the energy around us.” EnergyResponsibilityTruth IsRaisesBoundariesTaking ResponsibilityCoexist Author:Gabrielle Bernstein
“I was fortunate to start the sport at a young age. I was 6 years old when my dad started teaching me. We started playing tournaments together when I was 11, in the lower ranking of beach volleyball in California. We weren't playing against kids; we played against grown men, so immediately, I had to raise my game to compete.” MenYearsKidsAgeTogetherYoungGamesSportsTeachingDadRaisesMy DadBeachFortunateCaliforniaYoung AgeTournamentsVolleyballRankingGrown ManBeach Volleyball Author:Karch Kiraly
“First of all, she Hillary Clinton is going to raise taxes on the middle class. I actually think that's the only truthful thing she's said in about three weeks.” ThinkingFirstsSaidThreeClassWeekMiddleTaxesRaisesClintonMiddle ClassTruthful Author:Rudy Giuliani
“If Donald Trump had said something like I'm going to raise taxes on the middle class, it would be all over the news. You would be questioning his sanity.” IfsSaidWould BeClassMiddleTrumpTaxesNewsRaisesMiddle ClassSanityQuestioning Author:Rudy Giuliani
“If Mr. [Donald] Trump is up 10 or 15 points on Election Day and ends up losing, then, you know, maybe he can raise some questions. That doesn't seem to be the case at that moment.” IfsKnowsEndsMomentsSeemsCasesTrumpLosingRaisesElectionThat MomentElection Day Author:Barack Obama
“It's a proven fact that when you raise the status of girls and women in a country, that country does much better economically.” DoeCountryFactsGirlRaisesProven Author:Gillian Anderson
“We have to raise the status of girls and women in every country.” CountryGirlRaises Author:Gillian Anderson
“I've always been an environmentalist, but my life changed the day I had children. I realized that I wasn't doing enough to protect the planet. People need nature, and of course I want my children to have the best possible opportunity in life. I also realized how important it was for me to raise them to be conscientious people that are aware of their impact on the earth.” PeopleWantNeedsChildrenImportantEnoughEarthCoursesOpportunityChangedPlanetsProtectRaisesImpactI RealizedMy ChildrenLife ChangingEnvironmentalist Author:Julia Roberts
“Our family has been honored to serve our state and nation. Like many American families, we have been fortunate and blessed to raise three wonderful children and put them through college while doing work that we love.” ChildrenHas BeensStatesThreeNationsWonderfulCollegeRaisesBlessedFortunateOur FamilyHonoredAmerican FamilyWonderful Children Author:Mike Pence
“I still think have this deep desire for our Himalayan Trust - that we raise the necessary funds, that we do all the things that the Sherpas want us to do, and I would like to see us working together with them on these projects. Even though I'm old and decrepit I still have this strong feeling that I would like to carry these things out if it were still possible.” IfsThinkingWantStillsFeelingsTogetherDesireStrongProjectsRaisesWorking TogetherFundWant UStrong FeelingDecrepitDeep DesireSherpas Author:Edmund Hillary
“I've never seen Barack Obama as a progressive, just someone a bit more centrist, and not as right leaning as Hillary Clinton. Obama may make friends with a lot of K street lobbyists. The progressive blogosphere may be able to raise enough of a cry to persuade him that he doesn't need them, that he can get by with a few million people on the net financially supporting him.” PeopleNeedsMayEnoughAbleBitsMillionsStreetsCryRaisesClintonBarackProgressiveLobbyists Author:Rob Kall