One of the most consistent findings about low performing schools and students is that "home variables" (parental income and education, etc.) are… — Nicholas Lemann Copy Share Image
But, you will say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social… The Communists have not… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Discussions of the economy, especially during times of crisis, are often framed in terms of lessons we supposedly learned during the Depression… — Thomas Woods Copy Share Image
That day the U.S. announced that the dollar would be devalued by 10 percent. By switching the yen to a floating exchange… — Paul Volcker Copy Share Image
When I was mayor of Tulsa, Tulsa County was in nonattainment of the 1979 ozone NAAQS, so I have seen firsthand the… — Jim Inhofe Copy Share Image
Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The Second World War ended with a radicalization of the population in the United States and everywhere else, and called for all… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Even the National Bank of Romania doesn't have the huge resources needed to intervene in the market and keep the leu at… — Traian Basescu Copy Share Image
Governments do not necessarily act in the national interest, especially when making detailed microeconomic interventions. Instead, they are influenced by interest group… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
In 1953, the United States played a significant role in orchestrating the overthrow of Iran's popular prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. The Eisenhower… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
In the West everybody recognizes the need for a private sector, pretty much, even the one Socialist group understands this now, and… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
Neither the George W. Bush nor the Obama administrations volunteered to bail out G.M., Chrysler and other parts of the auto sector.… — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
If you look back to the anti-intervention movements, what were they? Let's take the Vietnam War - the biggest crime since the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against "freedom… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Government control of the economy, no matter in whose behalf, has been the source of all the evils in our industrial society… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In practice, without appropriate government intervention, Smith's "invisible hand" dons brass knuckles and conducts gang warfare, creating fierce battles between competitors who… — Denise Caruso Copy Share Image
Quite frankly, I have to admit that with regard to the enormous financial assets and funds of Russian leaders in Western banks… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
I started Eastwood Ranch Foundation a few years ago after I developed, co-starred, and produced a show for Nat Geo Wild called… — Alison Eastwood Copy Share Image
The nations of Europe constitute a federative league, a commonwealth of nations which, though it has no central head, is so intimate… — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II Copy Share Image
Whether the are splashed with gold or white, striped with chartreuse or cream, or margined in light tones, they are nature's weaklings,… — Allen Lacy Copy Share Image
People constantly requesting government intervention are casting their problems at society. And, you know, there's no such thing as society. There are… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
There was an intervention of the foreign states in the Russian Far East, Archangel of the West border of Russia. The foreign… — Vladimir Semichastny Copy Share Image
In the Islamic world, the U.S. is seen in two quite different ways. One view recognizes what an extraordinary country the U.S.… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
One absolutely crucial change is that feminist film theory is today an academic subject to be studied and taught. "Visual Pleasure and… — Laura Mulvey Copy Share Image
If you want government to intervene domestically, you’re a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you’re a conservative. If you… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
The question is not whether Tibet should be independent but the extent of the autonomy that it is allowed. Tibet has been… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
