21st Century Quotes - Page 15

• To equate Vladimir Putin and the United States of America, as Donald Trump was asked, you know, I guess it was Bill O'Reilly who said, "But Putin is a killer." And he basically said, "So are we." That moral equivalency is a contradiction of everything the United States has ever stood for in the 20th and 21st century.

  John McCain

  America, United States, Bills

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• When President [Barack] Obama was sworn in on the steps of Capitol, he asked for swift, bold action now for jobs and education for the 21st Century, a list, an agenda. One week and one day from that swearing in, the House passed the ARRA, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Jobs, Recovery, House

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Today, in this, the 21st century, bedtime doesn't matter at all. All that matters is what you set for your DVR.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Matter, Today, Bedtime

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• You innovate in ways that stoke your economy. Because innovations in science and technology are the engines of 21st century economies.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Technology, Innovation, Way

  "Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson on Writing, Mars, Curiosity, and the Higgs Boson". Interview With Sandra Kitt, aalbc.com. January 1, 2013.

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• It doesn't matter whether we live in the 19th or 21st centuries; we face the same basic problems that everyone who lives between the Fall and the return of Christ faces.

  Mark Dever

  Fall, Matter, Faces

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• Workers should have a right to sit across from management to collectively bargain about their work conditions, their wages, and the future direction of the company. To me, that's just a humane thing to do. It is unacceptable in the 21st century to have companies not want to do that with their employees and create a great work environment.

  Nina Turner

  Should Have, Wages, Want

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• We have an obligation to each other to not only push our politicians, but to push companies to do right by their workers. They wouldn't even have successful companies without their workers. They are the glue that keeps things together. How, in the 21st century, we have mega-corporations that have lost sight of that boggles my mind.

  Nina Turner

  Successful, Sight, Mind

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The research points pretty clearly to the rise of companionate marriage, and I just think it's going to keep being popular, for the very simple reason that it's basically the only way to afford a family life in the 21st-century in advanced economies. It's one of the major reasons for the spike in income inequality. Surgeons used to marry their secretaries. Now they marry other surgeons.

  Stephen Marche

  Simple, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• You could say that Trump is the 21st century version of Pat Buchanan. Protectionist, anti-immigrant.

  Eleanor Clift

  Trump, Century, Versions

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• We need to be prepared to have multi-stakeholder, well-managed partnerships. That can be very effective. We saw this happen at international level with the UN Convention on Landmines, for example, where some governments didn't want to go forward, but enough governments did and with them many NGOs. At international level we need to see this as the 21st century way of doing things.

  Mary Robinson

  Government, Example, Needs

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• I want to reduce America's deficit by cutting spending that we don't need but also by asking the wealthy to do a little bit more so that we can invest in things like research and technology that are the key to a 21st century economy.

  Barack Obama

  Cutting, Technology, Keys

  Source: genius.com

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• It's very important to understand that 21st century authoritarian rule does not look like 20th century authoritarian rule. You're not going to have people in parade ground formations. You're not going to have a police state. You're not going to people with decorative armbands bullying people on the sidewalks. And the leaders won't stand at microphones for hours ranting at people. All of that is so 80 years ago.

  David Frum

  Bullying, Years, People

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• Tim Ryan does not look like the 21st century democratic party. And should that matter?

  Chuck Todd

  Party, Matter, Doe

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• It's easy to say that reducing a song to 90 seconds on "American Idol" strips off so many things, and how it's the 21st century and music doesn't mean the same things to people and that it's so disposable.

  Alan Light

  Song, Mean, Idols

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• He [Osama bin Laden] is clearly an odd combination of a 12th-century theologian and a 21st-century CEO. He runs an absolutely unique organization in the Islamic world. It's multiethnic, multilinguistic, multinational. He is a combat veteran, three times wounded. He has a huge reputation in the Islamic world for generosity and leadership. He's a man who speaks eloquent, almost poetic Arabic, according to Bernard Lewis.

  Michael Scheuer

  Running, Islamic, Unique

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It is very depressing to see that in the 21st century people are still using the same 1950s and '60s style of propaganda.

  Bassem Youssef

  Depressing, People, Style

  "'Egyptian Jon Stewart' Bassem Youssef Will Now Satirize U.S. Democracy". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 3, 2016.

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• What I wanted to try and figure out was, okay, in contemporary 21st century life the alienation between the self and the land around you or the self and even the urban landscape. You name it.

  DJ Spooky

  Self, Land, Names

  "Big Think Interview With DJ Spooky". bigthink.com. April 08, 2010.

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• It's the 21st century, and somebody has to rise from within this faith tradition and retranslate it for the post-modern world... The Earth is not the center of the universe, therefore, God is not a being who lives above the sky, who splits the Red Sea from time to time, or creates a miracle, or whatever.

  John Shelby Spong

  Sea, Sky, Miracle

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• We have the history of slavery or inequality to women, and now the civil rights movement of the 21st century is the struggle for equality for the gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people. And I think it's important for Americans to know about the times that we failed.

  George Takei

  Struggle, Gay, Thinking

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• It never really understood its own situational luxury. And I think that by and large the privilege of being Kehinde Wiley in the 21st century, making these high-priced luxury goods, traveling the world, pointing at these people, behooves me to have a point of view and to say something about it.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Thinking, Views, Luxury

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I sincerely believe what happens in India has, I think, lessons, morals for the future evolution of humankind in the 21st century.

  Manmohan Singh

  Believe, Thinking, India

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• What will be interesting to see is whether or not we see from the [Donald Trump] administration initiatives on higher education for this work force, because if those kinds of training opportunities are not provided, then I do think this program begins to look like a defensive holding action, a rear-guard action, buying time for workers who might not otherwise find positions in the 21st century.

  Judy Woodruff

  Opportunity, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There was a bridge to the 21st century, and yet, somehow, for very large number of Americans, it was unclear how you got from one place to the other, from being a manual working-class man to being some part of a Brooklyn-based sharing economy.

  Judy Woodruff

  Men, Bridges, Class

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• President [Barack] Obama did put together a task force on 21st Century Policing, led by Philadelphia police chief Charles Ramsey, to look at some of these issues after Ferguson.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Philadelphia, Issues, Police

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• The great successes of the modern environmental movement in the '60s and '70s had laid the seeds of their failure in the early years of the 21st Century. They had built institutions filled with lawyers and scientists well suited to lobby policy makers who basically shared their world view. This worked well when liberals controlled the Congress and much of the federal bureaucracy, and when the politics of the time were more supportive of active government efforts to regulate the economy and clean up the environment.

  Ted Nordhaus

  Government, Views, Years

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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