Program Quotes

• I think a lot of programs, policies have been put in place since 9/11, have prevented a 9/11-style attack. On the other hand, I think the threat has become greater, not lesser.

  

  Michael McCaul
  • Thinking
  • Hands
  • Program

• 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.

  

  Mitchell Reiss
  • Concern
  • Countries
  • Actually

• A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.

  

  Russell Banks
  • Couple
  • Program
  • Graduates

• You can't measure the value he brings to the program. It's tremendous. At our first booster club meeting there were 1,000 to 2,000 people who wanted to listen to him talk.

  

  Eric Hyman
  • Listen
  • Program
  • Meeting

• It's hard to program a computer to make jokes. The brain needs to do something here; the brain needs to come up with something bizarre to make something funny.

  

  Brian Regan
  • Brain
  • Computer
  • Jokes

• Why communitarian socialism? Now not only do we have the pursuit of happiness for man, as a government, as a program or as our principles. But as well to live in harmony with Mother Earth.

  

  Evo Morales
  • Earth
  • Harmony
  • Socialism

• Donald Trump has the ability to renegotiate the Iran nuclear deal as he says, but if he were to do so, this would be regarded in Tehran as an abrogation of the deal. This would allow the Iranian side of the deal to in effect withdraw because they could say that the United States has not held up its end of the bargain, and therefore we're going to restart our nuclear program.

  

  Evan Osnos
  • Deal
  • United States
  • Donald Trump

• Being part of a community of writers is huge. I really think that's why people go to MFA programs.

  

  Alice Mattison
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Community

• I wanted to enjoy the performance. This is a really fun program, a Gypsy number. It's very seductive and playful and it's getting involved with the crowd and the judges. I enjoyed it and just let it happen.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Fun
  • Enjoy
  • Performance

• However, the Medicare prescription drug benefit has changed, and if the nearly 3,000 seniors I have met through 12 town halls can represent a sample of opinion, many seniors do not yet understand the prescription drug program and do not plan to sign up for coverage.

  

  Mike Fitzpatrick
  • Opinion
  • Drug
  • Changed

• Safe Routes to School is one with great potential to get children walking and biking to school again. The program uses federal grants to make road and sidewalk repairs aimed at getting kids to school safely on foot or bicycle. The money also supports efforts to get the community, school officials and others involved.

  

  Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
  • Community
  • Officials
  • Federal

• You can count on one hand the number of Novus Ordo churches in this country that feature a fully Catholic music program of any quality, consistent with the Roman rite tradition.

  

  Richard Morris
  • Catholic
  • Tradition
  • Consistent

• Friends of Bernard's Leach came to visit, and when we went to London, we were given introductions to people like Lucie Rie, Hans Coper, Richard Batram. All these people were, let's say, made available to us by a friendship with Leach. In addition there was a potter's group - what was it called? I think it was called the Cornish Potters Society, but I'm not sure of that. Anyway, they had meetings and we would go with Leach to these meetings and meet other potters, and they would have programs where they would discuss pottery and people would interchange ideas.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • People
  • Meetings
  • Introduction

• Set a goal and a program for yourself, and everything else will follow. Guaranteed.

  

  Amby Burfoot
  • Goal
  • Program

• It's... time to introduce scholarship programs that give students a choice, especially those who are locked into low-performing schools.

  

  Rick Perry
  • School
  • Education
  • Choices

• When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at all—because all this is happening out of time, out of space. I am, for a moment, a figure of my own fantasy, and I play my appointed role as if I were in the movies.

  

  Eva Hoffman
  • Space
  • Movies
  • Role

• There's no question that the Mountain West Conference wants to be a national program. Their focus is on the BCS. This is what they aspire to be, and these are the aspirations of TCU.

  

  Eric Hyman
  • Program
  • Aspirations
  • Conference

• Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.

  

  George Will
  • Program
  • Skepticism

• I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Brain

• Certainly people are always very envious of me. When I join a new theater company, the other actors look down the program, see my Return of the Jedi credit and say, 'Oh, you were part of Star Wars.' I smile and say, 'Yes, but only for twenty-six and a half seconds.'

  

  Caroline Blakiston
  • War
  • Actors
  • Smile

• God help us if we cannot sacrifice our percentages and our programs when He has called us to sacrifice our lives.

  

  Daniel Palmer
  • Helping
  • Sacrifice
  • Missionary

• The effects of MFA programs, and the rise of creative writing instruction more generally, are far more diffuse than people think. Even if you're a writer who has avoided institutions your whole life, you're still going to be reading a lot of writers who have MFAs, and are affiliated with universities.

  

  Chad Harbach
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Creative

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