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The program is all carrot and no stick. Local schools don't get millions but corporate interests do.


Jon Greenbaum

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We're trying to use the carrot and not the stick.
EDISON PERES The carrot hasn't worked. We've got to pick up the stick.
DEBBIE HERSMAN It's a bit of a carrot-and-stick strategy. The carrot is to produce industry-accepted solutions that...
ANDREW MORAN We were trying to find ways to lengthen the carrot and shorten the stick. We were looking for ways t...
PETER ADLER Still, year after year strong mercury rules fail in Washington under pressure from corporate interes...
SENATOR JOHN KERRY If Patrick Manning wants to run a campaign that takes the side of corporate interests who defrauded ...
RYAN TOOHEY Instead of corporate sponsorship, what they should do is band together and demand that tax cuts get ...
GARY RUSKIN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I have no tax breaks or corporate interests to be supported by Barack Obama.
ADAM MCKAY We want to offer developers a carrot rather than beat them with a stick.
ALAN ISAACSON The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on ma...
SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR The carrot on the stick works well. The employer is avoiding the train wreck when these people are o...
GREGG LEHMAN The corporate coffee house isn't necessarily evil, but I think supporting local businesses is inhere...
XTINE HANSON Many of our elected officials have virtually handed the keys to our schools over to corporate intere...
ALFIE KOHN [Williams] had a great fourth quarter. He made second-team All-County and All-TCL [but] there is no ...
JAY AIRHART There will be no charge. Local groups will be providing them to the schools.
DONALD WILDMON The state can be inept, irrational and pursue strange interests, but those interests were always see...
ANDREI ILLARIONOV Morningstar should stick to their knitting, which is measuring investment returns, ... They do not h...
GEOFF BOBROFF What's new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It's not politicians wo...
JIM HIGHTOWER Reasonable, even intelligent people can, and frequently do, disagree on how best to achieve peace in...
NICK RAHALL It's in the interests of all countries and peoples, but most especially it's in the interests of the...
ALEXANDER VERSHBOW Because of more corporate money, schools will get more general-scholarship money. And that's somethi...
COMMISSIONER LEON KERRY Eat cheese and do a u-turn but if you dont like cheese dont eat cheese and do a u-turn
KATIE BAVISTER We're just showing them some of the local attractions and key areas - such as businesses and schools...
BILL MCBRIDE Thus, by every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull th...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Thus, be every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull th...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Corporate controlled governments protect the interests of the corporations and not the common people...
STEVEN MAGEE In practice, a global approach is needed when dealing with the problems of the spaceship earth which...
REN The report provides overwhelming evidence that the Byrd amendment has turned into a giant corporate ...
STEVE ALEXANDER Coach Gable is the spokesman for wrestling in the United States and there?s no bigger name in the sp...
DAN GABLE As more medical professionals get smart meter sickness, the utility and government smart meter cover...
STEVEN MAGEE Winner dont do different but they do differently
SHIV KHERA The main concern we have in the civil rights community isn't necessarily that that DOJ brought this ...
JON GREENBAUM Citizens need a way to influence the process. The whole system is bogged down with undue influence b...
BRAD ASHWELL It's not country anymore. It's not really the artists' fault; there's so much pressure (from corpora...
KC GRIMMETT naming names, identifying marketers, corporate interests, major lobbying groups who are trying to go...
MADONNA When you eat a carrot that is nothing but carrot it zooms through your system as a carrot. When you ...
CATHY GUISEWITE Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially,...
RAY BRADBURY So what if I don't learn algebra?'

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SUSAN BETH PFEFFER I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is...
PHIL DONAHUE You have to be local, local, local, ... Secondly, if you're going to have syndication, it better be ...
BOB ZIMMERMAN This is a struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party, which in too many cases has become so corpo...
DENNIS KUCINICH Joan Rivers telling Lauren Bacall her dress is all wrong is like Carrot Top telling Lenny Bruce he n...
DENNIS MILLER It's the booking department, which is all a corporate level thing. We have no say in what we get. We...
JAY JUSTUS selling out the American people on behalf of a very few, big corporate interests.
ALLAN LICHTMAN The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.
RALPH NADER This program is another way in which we are working with local high schools and universities to deve...
BOB KLEIN The Republicans want local control and management of our schools, the president and the Democrats wa...
DICK ARMEY All the stakeholders at the table get a piece, the [recreational] fishers, the skiers, and the rest ...
CHA SMITH You can't take corporate money and launder it through an account, but tribes do this all the time.
CLETA MITCHELL Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY I dont understand why Floyd spent all this time trying to make a fight with Winky. I am the undisput...
ZAB JUDAH The program is all about the empowerment of teachers. The program creates situations so teachers can...
JOSEPH KRETOVICS Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they...
CHARLES A. JAFFE There is no credit to being a comedian, when you have the whole Government working for you. All you ...
WILL ROGERS We hope to bring a well-run restaurant to The Villages. We'll get involved with the schools and loca...
CHRIS SULLIVAN I think there are things we can do better with the program to increase its value to the schools.
JEFF HARSH Try chewing carrots, it's crunchy
SOTONYE ANGA Corporate executives need to re-frame their responsibilities to include the interests of all the sta...
SIMON MAINWARING The demand for Final Four tickets soared when this event went corporate, ... Corporate interests are...
DAVID LORD So, the point I'm making is, we are not going to cut spending in Washington if we think it's...
JIM DEMINT There's a place for corporate wives, but there's no place for corporate husbands.
KAREN VALENSTEIN The goal is to have the schools adopt the program. They're not there yet.
KAREN HUXTABLE The NASA humans-to-Mars program is all sizzle and no steak.
ROBERT ZUBRIN Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clu...
GABE KAPLAN Multinational companies inside and outside the mainland (China) are turning to local and traditional...
JULIA BROWN Coach (Jon) Gruden has done a great job trying to simulate the noise. All you have to do is communic...
CHRIS HOVAN It takes time to develop a program, and you have to have somebody stick around and work with the stu...
MARIO ANAYA Hey, techer leave those kids alone!.....We dont need no education......we dont need no thought contr...
PINK FLOYD Will the company take another steep dividend increase? Will the company embark on a more sizeable sh...
TIMOTHY ANDERSON When I have to choose between voting for the people or the special interests, I always stick with th...
HENRY FOUNTAIN ASHURST people dont know you till they meet you. dont smile if you dont want to, dont be a false person, don...
CAROLINA JANETTE GOMEZ GONZALEZ The program has helped our local farmers develop unique and beneficial products.
GOVERNOR CHEN DEMING Why dont we get drunk and screw?
JIMMY BUFFETT dont let your abuser win ,,,, brake the silence they have no right to get away with it xx
GRACE The extent to which not just state legislatures but the Congress of the United States are now run by...
MOLLY IVINS What do you do when your competitor is drowning? Get a live hose - and stick it in his mouth.
M. DOUGLAS IVESTER This is good for the schools because Florida and Georgia schools don't usually play Mississippi scho...
KATHLEEN THOMPSON All of the proceeds will go toward purchasing life-saving cardiac medical equipment that will go to ...
JENNIFER OSTERWEIL We want to introduce them to the different avenues of agriculture that are available to them; not on...
KAREN ALLEYNE You can view us however you like. It's a sport that is difficult to get to. There are no bobsled tra...
JEAN PRAHM It is not nature but nurture that motivates humankind to kill. We are not born killers. Killers are ...
CAMILLO MAC BICA There’s only one way America’s neighborhoods will begin to integrate: people have to want it mor...
TANNER COLBY I do believe that freedom isn't free - but today the corporate and political right wing is tryin...
RICHARD TRUMKA There's energy and leadership at the top, but there is a task to be done in getting parents and kids...
JEAN JOHNSON One of the things I do is try to get a positive message out there in the local schools and tell my s...
LEX LUGER The program lets students get an understanding of professors outside the classroom. The experience s...
JEFFREY WEINSTOCK The diffrence in man kind is you do or dont.
JAYDON I do remember the whole thing as being very argumentative, hot blooded... a permanent state of frict...
BILL BRUFORD Parents may refer their children to the program. We also get referrals from schools, police officers...
JULIE KLEIN Vimes had believed all his life that the Watch were called coppers because they carried copper badge...
TERRY PRATCHETT Whatever we were feeling towards each other, at the end of the New Jersey tour, we both put it aside...
RICHIE SAMBORA Do the days work. If it be to protect the rights of the weak, whoever objects, do it. If it be to he...
CALVIN COOLIDGE I think most parents are satisfied with the neighborhood schools. If they're not making choices to m...
BUDDY COLLINS This positive endeavor will benefit our children enrolled in the local schools and provide a safety ...
JOHN THOMPSON All emergencies are local and it doesn't matter what the federal stockpile is, if it doesn't get out...
ARNOLD MONTO Members of Congress get to play King or Queen for a day. Special interest groups get to spend large ...
FRED WERTHEIMER I'm a local businessman and I graduated from this program, and I advertise in the New Times, I'm pul...
DEAN WALKER This country has been strip-mined by rich and powerful interests. If you dont like what they're doin...
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JON KATZ I've always liked Atlanta. And not just for the strip clubs, but the shopping and the food.
JON STEWART Heaven, for me, is one focused project - it's like a weird form of autism.
JON KRAKAUER For years, I was watching other people have so much fun playing out their version of authorship, lik...
JON FAVREAU The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriag...
JON MEACHAM Justified or not, the Supreme Court has a kind of sacred status in American life. For whatever reaso...
JON MEACHAM Under current law volunteers who are not working with an official nonprofit organization are not cov...
JON PORTER The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed wi...
JON VOIGHT Between the theme parks and the movies, the Disney iconography was probably the first set of archety...
JON FAVREAU To ensure we are meeting the demands of existing customers while also attracting new users, we remai...
JON ORINGER If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack u...
JON STEWART History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and...
JON MEACHAM We must do all we can to empower parents and communities to protect our youth and to encourage healt...
JON CORZINE Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly ...
JON MEACHAM Elton John can be a master of the sleight of hand. The arrangements make it seem like there are subs...
JON LANDAU I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never hav...
JON SCIESZKA There is no such thing as an impartial jury because there are no impartial people. There are people ...
JON STEWART I don't 'handle' people. It's so much easier to manipulate actors than to really hav...
JON FAVREAU Barry White seemed so filled with self-parody at first that it was easy to dismiss him. But it is be...
JON LANDAU The Patriot Act removed major legal barriers that prevented the law enforcement, intelligence, and n...
JON PORTER I am a southerner who grew up with and around guns. I own some still. My father gave me a .22 rifle ...
JON MEACHAM