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I get irritated with the world. I get irritated with politicians. I get very irritated with governments and with corporations, but in terms of imagination - my imagination is always fertile. I'm either thinking of my own things or constantly engaged by the things that other people do.
Patti Smith
People
World
Own
Politicians
Thinking
Imagination
Other
Corporations
Constantly
My Own
Terms
Always
Fertile
Governments
Very
Get
Irritated
Either
Engaged
Things
Objectively speaking, Traf-O-Data was a failure as a company. Right as our business started to pick up, states began to provide their own traffic-counting services to local governments for free.
Paul Allen
Failure
Business
Free
Own
Local
Our
Local Governments
States
Objectively
Pick
Provide
Governments
Began
Up
Speaking
Company
Right
Services
Started
Beginning with the Clinton Administration and rapidly accelerating with the George W. Bush and Obama regimes and Tony Blair in England, the U.S. and U.K. governments have run roughshod over their accountability to law.
Paul Craig Roberts
Law
Accountability
Beginning
Tony Blair
Run
Rapidly
Obama
Administration
Blair
Over
Accelerate
George
Clinton
Clinton Administration
George W
George W. Bush
Governments
Regimes
Bush
England
Tony
Governments unaccountable to law are tyrannies, whatever they might call themselves, no matter how exceptional and indispensable they declare themselves to be.
Paul Craig Roberts
Law
Matter
Whatever
Unaccountable
Indispensable
Exceptional
Call
How
Governments
Declare
Might
Themselves
We know that advanced economies with stable governments that borrow in their own currency are capable of running up very high levels of debt without crisis.
Paul Krugman
Own
Crisis
High
Running
Borrow
Advanced
Economies
Know
Without
Governments
Up
Debt
Very
Currency
Stable
Capable
Levels
The commitment to put an end to illegal deforestation and develop sustainable alternatives for commodities like palm oil and soy, for example, is an inspiring illustration of what can be achieved when governments and industry partners come together determined to bring about transformational market-wide changes.
Paul Polman
Together
Commitment
Example
Illustration
Changes
Deforestation
About
Determined
Inspiring
Develop
Put
Come
Like
For Example
Industry
Partners
Alternatives
Governments
End
Commodities
Achieved
Soy
Oil
Sustainable
Illegal
Palm
Bring
Businesses and governments need to work together and make a joint commitment if we want to address climate change effectively and quickly.
Paul Polman
Work
Change
Together
Commitment
Address
Joint
Make
Climate
Climate Change
Governments
Effectively
Quickly
Want
Work Together
Businesses
Need
Business must go on reiterating its absolute commitment to embedding human rights in all it does, driving industry change through collaboration with governments, international organizations, and each other.
Paul Polman
Business
Change
Rights
Commitment
Human Rights
Other
Collaboration
Must
Absolute
Through
Driving
Industry
Does
Go
Governments
Human
Organizations
International
Each
Governments need to be authorized to provide 'open bank assistance.' The convolutions of Dodd-Frank aimed at 'avoiding' this tactic are ludicrous and will prove to be extremely costly to the system.
Paul Singer
Will
Extremely
System
Costly
Tactic
Open
Dodd-Frank
Prove
Provide
Governments
Authorized
Bank
Avoiding
Ludicrous
Assistance
Need
It's the publicity function of Amnesty that I think has made its name so widely known, not only to readers in the world, but to governments - and that's what matters.
Peter Benenson
World
Made
Matters
Think
Only
Name
Known
Readers
Governments
Function
Publicity
Amnesty
Widely
Disciplined governments do not engage in the economic equivalent of binge eating followed by crash dieting.
Peter Blair Henry
Eating
Followed
Economic
Disciplined
Equivalent
Governments
Dieting
Crash
Engage
Binge
A referendum is almost always a device by which governments get the voters to endorse what they wanted to do all along.
Peter Hitchens
Almost
Device
Along
Voters
Always
Referendum
Governments
Get
Endorse
Wanted
Which
I don't think the British or American governments really want to fight the Islamic State. They just want to look as if they are doing so.
Peter Hitchens
Fight
Think
State
Look
Islamic
Doing
Governments
American
Just
Want
Really
British
Governments, especially democratic ones, are short-term and nationalistic.
Peter Senge
Democratic
Governments
Nationalistic
Short-Term
There is no doubt that the world economy is in trouble. But if governments or individuals use this as an excuse to reduce assistance to the world's poorest people, they will only multiply the seriousness of the problem for the world as a whole.
Peter Singer
People
Problem
World
Will
Trouble
Doubt
No Doubt
Only
Individuals
Economy
Excuse
Reduce
Governments
Poorest
Use
Whole
Multiply
Seriousness
World Economy
Assistance
States should require vaccinations for communicable diseases, like measles and the mumps. But you can't catch HPV if an infected schoolmate coughs on you or shares your juice box at lunch. Whether or not girls get vaccinated against HPV is a decision for parents and physicians, not state governments.
Phil Gingrey
You
Decision
Girl
Parents
Lunch
State
State Governments
States
Physicians
Shares
Catch
Like
Box
Juice
Governments
Infected
Get
Diseases
Whether
Against
Require
Should
Your
Measles
Business is doing better than governments.
Pierre Nanterme
Business
Better
Doing
Governments
Than
Where human lives are concerned, time is always short, yet the world has witnessed the vast resources that governments can draw upon to rescue financial institutions deemed 'too big to fail.'
Pope Benedict XVI
Time
World
Financial
Big
Too
Resources
Draw
Vast
Fail
Institutions
Concerned
Witnessed
Always
Governments
Human
Short
Where
Rescue
Deemed
Lives
Budgets can make or break reputations and governments.
Priti Patel
Budgets
Make
Governments
Break
Reputations
Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.
Ralph Steadman
Harsh
Running
Ruthless
Entrepreneurs
Governments
Anymore
Agenda
Show
I do worry that organizations and even governments who own AI and data will have a competitive advantage and power, and those who don't will be left behind.
Rana el Kaliouby
AI
Will
Power
Own
Worry
Those
Data
Advantage
Governments
Left
Behind
Organizations
Who
Even
Competitive
Competitive Advantage
Governments like China and the United Arab Emirates are investing heavily in AI and see it as a competitive advantage.
Rana el Kaliouby
AI
Arab
See
Investing
Advantage
Like
Governments
China
United
Competitive
Competitive Advantage
The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.
Rand Paul
History
Racism
Country
Rose
State
Jim
Local
Jim Crow
Local Governments
Laws
Crow
Were
Governments
The History Of
Repression
African-American
Bigoted
Product
I would like to implore all the governments of the world to come together to form a protocol to regulate virtual currency.
Ravi Subramanian
Together
World
Virtual
Would
Come
Like
Protocol
Governments
Currency
Form
Regulate
While the Internet can't be controlled 100 percent, it's possible for governments to filter content and discourage people from organizing.
Rebecca MacKinnon
People
Internet
Filter
Possible
Percent
Content
Discourage
Governments
Controlled
While
Organizing
I am well aware of the facts presented by numerous security experts on the many ways in which the United States' digital networks have come under siege by cybercriminals and under daily assault by hackers in league with various foreign governments.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Daily
Digital
Numerous
Siege
States
Ways
Security
Various
Networks
Facts
Hackers
League
Come
Well
Am
Foreign
Governments
Which
Experts
Assault
Many
United
Aware
United States
Presented
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