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We have a strong tradition in our country of senior leaders being apolitical, nonpartisan.
Joseph Dunford
Strong
Country
Our
Leaders
Tradition
Senior
Being
Apolitical
I think that it's very important that whoever is in office can trust the U.S. military to provide him with advice in private so that advice is not then used by somebody to try to criticize the president or try to influence the outcome.
Joseph Dunford
Trust
Try
Somebody
Important
Advice
Military
Think
President
Outcome
Criticize
Him
Private
Provide
Very
Office
Influence
Then
Used
Whoever
Generally, Sunday talk shows talk about policy, and I don't address policy.
Joseph Dunford
Sunday
Address
About
Generally
Talk
Talk Shows
Policy
Shows
Competition doesn't have to be conflict.
Joseph Dunford
Conflict
Competition
We cannot keep gapping units where we need a good strong NCO or staff NCO and he's not there. They've got to have the right technical, the right leadership qualifications for the billet.
Joseph Dunford
Good
Leadership
Strong
We Cannot
He
Qualifications
Got
Staff
Where
Cannot
Keep
Technical
Right
Units
Need
I want to make sure I have a system that allows me to know that the platoon sergeant and platoon commander aren't going to move at the same time when we come back from deployment. That sounds pretty simple, but it's really about data.
Joseph Dunford
Time
Me
Simple
Back
System
Pretty
About
Data
Come
Know
Make
Sure
Sounds
Commander
Same
Going
Move
Same Time
Want
Deployment
Really
Sergeant
Platoon
The only one I can be sure will say something nice about me is my mother.
Joseph Dunford
Me
Mother
Will
Nice
Say
About
Something
Only
Sure
The pace of change and the speed of war has greatly accelerated.
Joseph Dunford
War
Change
Speed
Accelerate
Greatly
Pace
If a child in its first thousand days - from conception to two years old - does not have adequate nutrition, the damage is irreversible.
Josette Sheeran
Old
First
Nutrition
Adequate
Thousand
Days
Conception
Does
Years
Child
Irreversible
Damage
Two
One thing I will commit to the people of Ohio is, when I'm a U.S. senator and there's issues being debated in Washington, when I'm a U.S. senator they'll know exactly what my position is.
Josh Mandel
People
Will
One Thing
Exactly
Exactly What
Know
Issues
Debated
Senator
Commit
Ohio
Being
Washington
Thing
Position
You've read the Torah, right? So you know the Torah defines marriage as being between one man and one woman.
Josh Mandel
You
Man
Woman
Marriage
Defines
Torah
One-Man
Between
Know
Read
Being
Right
Sherrod Brown and President Obama have lost the faith of Jewish Democrats.
Josh Mandel
Faith
Lost
President
President Obama
Obama
Brown
Democrats
Jewish
While I am a Republican, I'm a conservative first and I'm a constitutional conservative, and in Washington some of the Republicans are oftentimes just as much a problem as some of the Democrats, and we need to elect more senators like Senator Rubio and others who will stand proudly as conservatives to do the right thing for our country.
Josh Mandel
Do The Right Thing
Problem
Conservative
Will
First
Country
Conservatives
Others
Our
Right Thing
Some
Constitutional
More
Like
Democrats
Am
Proudly
Senator
Senators
Oftentimes
Just
Just As Much
The Right Thing
While
Republican
Republicans
Elect
Much
Stand
Who
Washington
Right
Thing
Need
The more we can get Washington out of the way, the stronger our economy and our country will be.
Josh Mandel
Will
Stronger
Country
Our
Way
Out
More
Economy
Get
Washington
The extraordinary genius of John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie 100 years ago was their recognition that the great wealth they had amassed could be put to public good and used to solve the complex problems for which there were no other sources of capital.
Judith Rodin
Good
Great
Genius
Wealth
Problems
Other
Extraordinary
Carnegie
Complex
Recognition
Andrew
Solve
John
Could
Had
Put
Were
Rockefeller
Years
Years Ago
Sources
Which
Public
Capital
Public Good
Used
I think all philanthropy invests in product innovation, whether in a vaccine or a new kind of product of one sort or another, and I think we'll all continue to do that.
Judith Rodin
Innovation
Think
Philanthropy
Kind
New
Sort
Another
New Kind
Continue
Whether
Product
Vaccine
I have been honored and privileged to have led The Rockefeller Foundation for the last seven years, and I am excited to be leading the Foundation as we enter our centennial year.
Judith Rodin
Year
Our
Seven
Honored
Enter
Excited
Leading
Am
Rockefeller
Been
Years
Led
Privileged
Foundation
Last
A social impact bond is a new way of bringing financing into social and environmental support issues.
Judith Rodin
Environmental
Way
Financing
Impact
Support
New
Issues
New Way
Social
Bond
Bringing
I enjoyed being a police officer; I enjoyed the investigations.
Julia Pierson
Police
Investigations
Police Officer
Officer
Being
Enjoyed
When I first joined the Secret Service in 1983, I was right out of college, having spent the last two or three years of my college experience working as a police officer for the city of Orlando, Florida.
Julia Pierson
Service
Experience
Police
College
Three
First
Secret
Spent
Out
City
College Experience
Having
Joined
Police Officer
Years
Officer
Working
Orlando
Right
Florida
Last
Two
We are very much engaged across the government, very much engaged in streamlining and simplifying our activities with borrowers and lenders, because that saves time and saves costs and we believe we can do that while maintaining the same or increased levels of oversight and risk management.
Karen Mills
Government
Time
Management
Believe
Increased
Saves
Our
Borrowers
Risk
Risk Management
Costs
Maintaining
Because
Oversight
Very
Same
While
Much
Across
Engaged
Activities
Levels
As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
Karen Mills
Me
People
Word
Country
Believe
Saved
Market
Would
Able
Small
Small Businesses
Had
Put
Around
Without
Access
How
How Many Times
Were
Surprised
Heard
Times
Survived
Use
Billion
Businesses
Many
Traveled
Credit
We really accomplished what we set out to do with the Recovery Act programs, which was to fill the lending gap created by the crisis.
Karen Mills
Programs
Crisis
Out
Recovery
Recovery Act
Accomplished
Which
Lending
Created
Really
Act
Gap
Fill
Set
The morale when I came in was not the best. It was because the agency had not been valued.
Karen Mills
Best
Valued
Morale
Had
Because
Came
Been
Agency
We see entrepreneurship and small businesses and supply chains as a critical part of the economic growth and competitiveness agenda.
Karen Mills
Critical
See
Small
Economic
Small Businesses
Economic Growth
Entrepreneurship
Part
Supply
Agenda
Businesses
Chains
Growth
Competitiveness
One of the most important things we hear is the S.B.A. needs to be ubiquitous. We do all these things, but people still don't know.
Karen Mills
Needs
People
Important
Important Things
Know
Most
Still
Hear
The Most Important
Things
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