#programs

Governments allocate enormous resources for social programs. And it is true that for many years we have had one of the best social service systems in the world. Yet we are still incapable of meeting the needs of tens of thousands of Canadian families. ↗

— Kim Campbell

#best #canadian #enormous #families #governments

We will cut programs, we will try to rein in the size of the bureaucracy. We will bring federal pay scales that have become so exaggerated into line with market rates. ↗

— Eric Cantor

#bring #bureaucracy #cut #exaggerated #federal

Now the proposal is yet again another $150 billion before we start to think about a freeze. But $150 billion spent on more government programs; monies being created to direct and what kind of jobs that Washington thinks ought to be created. Come on. I mean there is a government that can help, and the government can also hurt. ↗

— Eric Cantor

#again #also #another #before #being

If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized. ↗

— Jacques Chirac

#creations #culturally #economically #generation #language

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

#budget #every #everyone #fail #federal

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

#broadest #broadest sense #efforts #enact #had

My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.' ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#characters #extensions #family #films #friends

In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and yet all the programs in the past were predominantly focused on men. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#africa #agenda #developing #developing world #farmers

I have six sisters and two beautiful daughters - that's eight women who mean the world to me. I support the Entertainment Industry Foundation and Lee National Denim Day because they fund programs that are making huge strides in breast cancer research and support. ↗

— Felicity Huffman

#because #breast cancer #cancer #daughters #day

During the last regular session and the most recent special session, measures that I see as little more than Band-Aids were applied to three health programs in the state. ↗

— Jane D. Hull

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