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• AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion... It's, what, a few months in Iraq.

  Jared Diamond

  Iraq, Issues, Cost

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• For some reason the football coach of a major college program is seen as one of the leaders of the campus. And some way we have to let our young people know that that leader can look like anyone.

  Tony Dungy

  Football, College, People

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• What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford.

  Freeman Dyson

  Technology, Government, Fusion

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• The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Love, Peace, Government

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• Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody.

  Larry Elder

  Mean, Government, Regulation

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• That was just my own personal program: I didn't want to get too high over the good moments because I didn't want to be saddened and depressed when things didn't go as I had planned.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Want, Moments

  "The Wondrous Dr. J". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• I'd love to have a program like 'Dr. Laura.' I studied psychology at the University of Miami, and when I rode the bus home from school, perfect strangers would strike up conversations with me and end up telling me their life stories. I think they could sense that I was studying to help people. That, or I have a face like a priest.

  Gloria Estefan

  School, Home, Thinking

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• Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else.

  Paul Farmer

  Mean, Talking, Earthquakes

  "Q&A: Dr. Paul Farmer and Ophelia Dahl on recovery efforts in Haiti". Interview with Molly Hennessy-Fiske, latimesblogs.latimes.com. January 29, 2011.

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• In Chicago, you have an absence of strong family units, and that absence gets filled by gangs. You have a failure in the school system, after-school programs and other social programs to help keep kids off the streets. Amnesty International speaks to that in some way, by keeping these issues in the forefront.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Strong, School, Kids

  "Lupe Fiasco on Freedom". Interview with Lisa Bonner, www.ebony.com. June 28, 2012.

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• I've had a long line of failed television programs, pilots that were never picked up, series that didn't go very long. I've learned that there's really nothing you can do. If it's not in my control, I try not to worry about it.

  Nathan Fillion

  Worry, Long, Trying

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• You have a dramatic portion of your television program and you treat it dramatically, and then you have a comedic portion of your program, and you treat it differently. Why do you change who are between the two pieces? You're the same person. Just go.

  Nathan Fillion

  Two, Television, Pieces

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• The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.

  Carly Fiorina

  Thinking, Agency, Internet

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• 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

  Senior, Drug, Towns

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• The CIA's research program is described in a book called "The Search for the Manchurian Candidate."

  Ken Follett

  Book, Swag, Research

  Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. December 15, 2000.

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• I don't even think about a retirement program because I'm working for the Lord, for the Almighty. And even thought the Lord's pay isn't very high, his retirement program is, you might say, out of this world.

  George Foreman

  Retirement, Thinking, World

  George Foreman (2007). “Going the Extra Smile”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated

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• The designated driver program, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, drop them off at the wrong house.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Jobs, Humor

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• Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.

  Barney Frank

  Two, People, Political

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• But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered.

  Barney Frank

  Decision, Etc, Poor

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• For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.

  Barney Frank

  Welfare Programs, People, Effort

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• It's hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it's impossible to have that debate.

  Al Franken

  Secret, Opinion, Impossible

  "We need transparency on domestic surveillance" by Al Franken, www.cnn.com. July 23, 2013.

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• The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans' privacy. But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we're getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.

  Al Franken

  Knowing, America, Government

  "We need transparency on domestic surveillance" by Al Franken, www.cnn.com. July 23, 2013.

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• Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors.

  Bill Frist

  Senior, Retirement, Powerful

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• Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear.

  Bill Frist

  Senior, Long, Support

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• I don't like being on television when I'm playing live. I don't even like being on Jools Holland or any of them programs.

  Noel Gallagher

  Television, Holland

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• Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Problem, Politician, Poor

  Henry Louis Gates Jr. (2012). “The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader”, p.546, Basic Books

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