“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
“As a single-payer advocate, I believe that at the end of the day, if a state goes forward and passed an effective single-payer program, it will demonstrate that you can provide quality health care to every man, woman and child in a more cost-effective way.” IfsMenWayBelieveChildrenEndsStatesCareI BelieveQualityCostProgramEvery ManHealth CareThe End Of The DayMen WomenQuality Health Care Author:Bernie Sanders
“Of course the Republicans have long wanted to privatize Social Security and destroy it. But Social Security has been the most important and valuable social program in the history of the United States.” LongHas BeensImportantStatesWantedCoursesSocialUnitedUnited StatesSecurityRepublicanProgramValuableSocial SecuritySocial Programs Author:Bernie Sanders
“The reason a person is in a particular state of mind is primarily because of attraction and aversion. Attraction and aversion cause us to format a mental or intellectual program.” MindPersonsStatesReasonCausesAwarenessParticularBuddhismIntellectualProgramAttractionState Of MindFormatAversion Author:Frederick Lenz
“It's traditionally not federal policy to fund state and local salaries. It's done sometimes on a temporary basis or a grant basis. But it's not often done. And the reason is clear, because the federal government can't continue in perpetuity these programs.” SometimesStatesReasonDoneGovernmentClearPolicyProgramBasesLocalsFundGrantsTemporaryFederal GovernmentSalary Author:Jim Talent
“For states in demographic decline with ever more lavish social programs, the question is a simple one: Can they get real? Can they grow up before they grow old? If not, then they'll end their days in societies dominated by people with a very different worldview.” PeopleIfsDifferentRealEndsStatesSocialGrowsSimpleGrowing UpProgramDeclineGet RealWorldviewDemographicsSocial Programs Book:America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It Source: America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It
“The other countries did not share the same concern the United States had in the early '90's - that North Korea actually had an ongoing nuclear weapons program.” CountryStatesUnitedUnited StatesShareWeaponsConcernProgramNuclearNuclear WeaponsOther CountriesOngoingKoreaNorth Korea Author:Mitchell Reiss
“I don't know what compassionate conservative means. Does it mean cutting kids out of after school programs, Does it mean drilling in the arctic wildlife refuge? Does it mean sending kids to Iraq without body armor that's state of the art?” KnowsMeanDoeArtStatesBodyKidsSchoolCuttingProgramIraqConservativeCompassionateRefugeWildlifeArmorArcticAfter SchoolDrillingAfter School Programs Author:John F. Kerry
“As one of the nation's top agricultural states, Nebraska has a great opportunity to provide input that will help shape the 2007 Farm Bill, .. This legislation will help determine commodity price supports, priorities with regard to conservation programs, as well as rural development, renewable energy and beginning farmer initiatives for several years to come.” YearsWellsStatesHelpingOpportunityEnergyNationsSupportDevelopmentShapesProgramRegardBillsDeterminePrioritiesFarmsFarmersInitiativeAgricultureCommodityConservationLegislationInputRenewable EnergyGreat OpportunityNebraskaCommodity Prices Author:Dave Heineman
“It's good to go back and look at what other states are doing. For example, Mayo Clinics and the University of Minnesota had a collaborative grant program that we modeled our program after, so we went back to talk to them about the successes of their program. It's been very successful, the state is going back to fund it again, and it's resulted in a great deal of collaboration and specifically patented technology.” LooksStatesDealsTechnologySuccessfulExampleProgramUniversityFundGrantsCollaborationMinnesotaClinic Author:Brian Thompson
“What our family has done is participate in the farm programs. And so the farm programs I think essentially almost every farmer in South Dakota has participated in those, and they haven't been bailouts, they have been programs that the United States has put forward for farmers to participate in.” ThinkingHas BeensStatesDoneUnitedUnited StatesHavensProgramSouthOur FamilyFarmsFarmersDakotaBailoutsSouth Dakota Author:Kristi Noem
“Socialist is not a human but animal - because human differs from animal in this that he has moral rules, and reds, as their program states, they disobey them.” HumansStatesAnimalMoralProgramSocialist Author:Janusz Korwin-Mikke