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So few people vote these days, and I think it's partly because they don't feel like the institution really means anything to them. If you want them to vote, give them opportunities to do something else other than vote, to help. Jennifer Pahlka
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I think there is a big disjuncture between what we are served up as consumers and what we are served up as citizens. Jennifer Pahlka
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As a society, we haven't spent as much time building the citizen Internet. Jennifer Pahlka
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Before I started Code for America, I spent my career around startups. First it was game developers, small teams trying to make hits in a tough business. Then, when I started working on the Web 2.0 events, it was web startups during times of enormous opportunity and investment. Jennifer Pahlka
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If there's one thing government needs desperately, it's the ability to quickly try something, pivot when necessary, and build complex systems by starting with simple systems that work and evolving from there, not the other way around. Jennifer Pahlka
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The first time I met Elizabeth Edwards, she greeted me at the door of her home juggling a yogurt in one hand and a Diet Coke in the other. Jennifer Palmieri
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Many have observed that Elizabeth Edwards could be a political figure in her own right. She has never had an interest in that. Jennifer Palmieri
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My dad was a Republican. My mom - my mom was mostly a Republican, although she voted for McGovern over Nixon. She was really proud of that. She also did, however, work for Trent Lott. Jennifer Palmieri
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America is not going to side with the people that think our best days are behind us. It's not going to side with the people that think we pit people against each other, even if they believe at their core - which I think some of these people do - that, you know, ultimately Trump would make things better. Jennifer Palmieri
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The Democratic Party is always going to be a diverse group of people who are yelling at each other and fighting over what's the best way to do something. Jennifer Palmieri
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I think that there should be an assault weapons ban. Jennifer Palmieri
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When I worked in the Obama White House, people in national security positions had been uneasy making broad public arguments, particularly about political matters. Jennifer Palmieri
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If Trump expects the Americans who did not vote for him to accept him as president, he needs to show that he accepts all of them as Americans. He needs to show that he understands their concerns and hears their fears. Jennifer Palmieri
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If you start with the premise that whatever you want to be is going to happen, it changes the way you think about it. Jennifer Palmieri
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If you're a minority party that doesn't control any branch of government, you're more likely to be ignored. Jennifer Palmieri
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The financial crisis revealed important weaknesses in many areas of our financial system. Jerome Powell
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Alignment of business strategy and risk appetite should minimize the firm's exposure to large and unexpected losses. In addition, the firm's risk management capabilities need to be commensurate with the risks it expects to take. Jerome Powell
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Long experience, in the United States and in other advanced economies, has demonstrated that monetary policy is most successful when decisions are rendered independent of influence by elected officials. Jerome Powell
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By fostering the economic health and vitality of local communities throughout the country, community banks play a central role in our national economy. One important aspect of that role is to serve as a primary source of credit for the small businesses that are responsible for creating a substantial proportion of all new jobs. Jerome Powell
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Risk management systems and controls may discourage or limit certain revenue-generating opportunities. Failure to ensure the independence of these functions from the revenue generators and risk takers has been shown to be dangerous, and this is something for which the board is accountable. Jerome Powell
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The financial crisis and the Great Recession left firms with excess capacity, reducing incentives to invest. If businesses expect slower growth to continue, that will also hold down investment. Jerome Powell
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The success of monetary policy should be judged by the economy's performance against our statutory mandates of price stability and maximum employment. Jerome Powell
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Legislative reforms in the 1990s and the public/private structure led managements to expand the GSEs' balance sheets to enormous size, underpinned by wafer-thin slivers of capital, driving high shareholder returns and very high compensation for management. Jerome Powell
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While monetary policy can contribute to growth by supporting a durable expansion in a context of price stability, it cannot reliably affect the long-run sustainable level of the economy's growth. Jerome Powell
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As with so many sectors of the economy, technology is transforming the retail banking sector. Jerome Powell
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The main long-run contribution monetary policy can make is to provide a stable macroeconomic and financial environment. Jerome Powell
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