Financial aid Quote by Timothy L. O'Brien

““When Donald later took out full-page ads criticizing the White House’s military spending overseas and advocating more financial aid for the homeless (yes, the homeless), Koch reminded New Yorkers of Donald’s failed attempt to buy land in Moscow for a new hotel in the Russian capital. “I mean, how bright do you have to be to know that in Moscow you can’t own property?” asked Koch. “How bright? Is this the man we want dictating foreign policy?””

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“If you don’t win you can’t get away with it. And I win, I win, I always win. In the end I always win, whether it’s in golf, whether it’s in tennis, whether it’s in life, I just always win. And I tell people I always win, because I do. “I guess to a certain extent it is all about…

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“While the vision he had shown in building Trump Tower remained, the discipline he had summoned to get the skyscraper built evaporated. Emboldened by easy money and a laudatory press, Donald went on a massive and ill-considered shopping spree. Among the projects he juggled was a promising expanse on the West Side on the same turf where Zeckendorf wanted to…

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“Other members of Manhattan’s real estate elite preferred anonymity and usually disdained slapping their names on their buildings. They didn’t buy football teams or airlines or casinos or beauty pageants. They simply built, waited patiently to get rich, and donated huge sums to philanthropies. For the most part, no one in this crowd considered Donald a peer, either in terms…

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“This little coin toss with NBC was vintage Donald. Zoom in for the jackpot. Be outrageous in your demands. Keep a straight face. See…

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Donald Trump was seen for quite a long time as a punchline, the jokes about the excesses and the failures of the 1980s. And…

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“Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.’ ”…

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Donald Trump became seen as a credible businessperson with a real track record, even though that was at odds with reality.

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“Shortly after the Taj opening, Forbes magazine published a cover story saying the developer was worth, at best, only $500 million, down from an…

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Judged by the dollars spent, gambling is now more popular in America than baseball, the movies, and Disneyland-combined.

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“One thing that went missing from the reporting of Donald’s percentages was some quick math. Donald was in the midst of his I-am-worth-$5-billion-to-$6-billion phase,…

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“Of course, any workplace actually run like the operation Donald presided over in Season Two would have devolved into a dysfunctional compost pile. “You…

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I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way.

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For me, education has never been simply a policy issue - it's personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where…

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“Africa, in particular, has barely begun to exploit its renewable energy potential. Energy analysts say that solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, and biomass sources could more than supply the energy needs of every continent. The key is providing a favorable playing field, and that means financial aid, technology transfer, and training programs to assist developing nations, like the ones being advanced…

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“One result of the federal government’s student financial aid programs is higher tuition costs at our nation’s colleges and universities.” Although paradoxical, this result could have been predicted from basic economic theory: when students can come up with more money for college, thanks to the government’s efforts, colleges can afford to increase their tuition. “The empirical evidence is consistent with…

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My go-to gifts are scarves from my friend Matin Maulawizada's nonprofit organization, Afghan Hands, which supports disenfranchised women in Afghanistan. In exchange for their…

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The only really effective means of enabling States to deal with the grave problem of poverty is to provide them with the necessary resources…

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“But in northern Sinai, there is hardly any tourism. Tourist villages built by the Egyptian government along the northern coast are effectively ghost towns, and the small Al-Arish industrial zone and the airport are not enough to support the Bedouin families. Promises of new projects and financial aid for housing or employment have, as the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz put it…

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