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As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.
Derek Bok
Education
Higher Education
Increases
Relative
Dramatically
System
Embrace
Cost
Higher
Maintaining
Countries
Mass
Elite
Universities
By giving the FDA adequate resources and authority to both prevent outbreaks and intervene once they appear, we can support the administration's efforts to reassure the parents of America that the food they feed their children is the product of the safest system in the world.
Diana DeGette
Food
World
Parents
Giving
Intervene
Resources
Once
Adequate
System
Administration
Prevent
Both
Feed
Support
Safest
America
Efforts
Authority
Children
Product
Reassure
Appear
I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to serve President Obama and the country and proud of the progress we've made toward rebuilding trust in our financial system and moving our economy closer to recovery. It was a privilege to work with such a fine group of people at the White House and across the administration.
Diana Farrell
Work
Trust
Grateful
People
Progress
Financial
Opportunity
Made
Country
White
White House
Group
President
Our
President Obama
System
Financial System
Obama
Administration
Fine
Recovery
Toward
Economy
House
Proud
Am
Privilege
Closer
Moving
Across
Rebuilding
Serve
Deeply
Even kids who haven't had firsthand experience with the immigration system, I want them to know how families are affected and what kind of system is in place.
Diane Guerrero
Experience
Immigration
Kids
System
Kind
Had
Know
Firsthand
How
Affected
Families
Want
Place
Them
Who
Even
I didn't take the typical path and go to college after high school. Instead, I saved up money from teaching dance classes and moved to L.A. But my family was so supportive - I never felt pressure from them. It's crucial to find a support system, even if it's not your family.
Dianna Agron
Family
Money
School
Path
Dance
Pressure
College
Saved
Dance Classes
Typical
System
High
Find
Classes
High School
Crucial
Take
Never
Instead
Support
Supportive
Felt
Go
Up
Moved
After
Them
Your
Teaching
Even
Our system of checks and balances requires policymakers to have accurate information about government actions.
Dianne Feinstein
Government
Our
System
About
Checks
Checks And Balances
Balances
Policymakers
Accurate
Accurate Information
Information
Requires
Actions
Our current tax system is broken.
Dick Armey
Broken
Our
System
Current
Tax
Tax System
I blew amps like they were made of tissue paper. Once I blew out the sound system at Royal Albert Hall in London.
Dick Dale
Made
Once
Paper
System
Out
London
Like
Blew
Hall
Sound
Were
Tissue
Albert
Royal
The swipe fee reform law that Congress enacted in 2010 was a huge step forward in bringing transparency, competition, and choice to a debit card system that had been rigged by Visa, MasterCard, and the banks.
Dick Durbin
Competition
Law
Congress
Visa
System
Had
Step
Step Forward
Fee
Been
Huge
Reform
Banks
Choice
Transparency
Forward
Swipe
Card
Rigged
Bringing
American businesses and consumers deserve a debit card system with competition, transparency, and reasonable fees.
Dick Durbin
Competition
System
Consumers
Fees
American
American Businesses
Transparency
Reasonable
Businesses
Deserve
Card
After one hundred years of federal rule, the United States House of Representatives has moved to provide for the first meaningful route to self-determination for the Puerto Rican people under our federal system.
Dick Thornburgh
People
First
Our
Hundred
Hundred Years
Rule
States
System
Federal
Self-Determination
House
House Of Representatives
Provide
Years
Representatives
Moved
After
Rican
Meaningful
United
United States
Route
Puerto
Puerto Rican
Yet, Puerto Rico's economic convergence and political integration with the rest of the nation is in a state of arrest - even though the island has been within the national borders, political system and customs territory of the U.S. for a century.
Dick Thornburgh
Political
Rest
Nation
National
State
Though
System
Has-Been
Borders
Economic
Within
Island
Territory
Arrest
Been
Integration
National Borders
Political System
Convergence
Century
Customs
Rico
Even
Puerto
The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental aspect is about to change.
Dick Wolf
Life
Change
Free
Television
System
Threat
About
Support
Because
Commercials
Aspect
Reason
Fundamental
We do care about planets like the Earth because by now we understood that life as a chemical system really needs a smaller planet with water and with rocks and with a lot of complex chemistry to originate, to emerge, to survive.
Dimitar Sasselov
Life
Needs
Water
Care
Chemistry
Earth
Complex
System
Emerge
About
Smaller
Like
Because
Chemical
Understood
Lot
Rocks
Survive
To Survive
Planet
Really
Planets
Now
Originate
Life is extremely resilient once it takes hold, but it requires rich chemistry, large energy sources, and stability, right from the beginning. The comparative planetology of our solar system makes it seem like those initial conditions are hard to come by.
Dimitar Sasselov
Life
Solar
Chemistry
Beginning
Energy
Rich
Our
Solar System
Once
Extremely
Those
System
Seem
Takes
Come
Like
Makes
Sources
Conditions
Stability
Hold
Energy Sources
Requires
Hard
Large
Initial
Comparative
Right
Resilient
When you come to a place like Old Trafford, you have to defend, and the system is in place for perfectly good reasons.
Dimitri Payet
Good
You
Old
System
Perfectly
Come
Like
Place
Reasons
Defend
Obviously, you have the DNC engaged in communication with lots of different parties, and anything you can use to gain intelligence about what's going on in the U.S. political system and what the candidates are thinking is of high interest to Russian intelligence.
Dmitri Alperovitch
You
Communication
Intelligence
Political
Thinking
System
High
About
Russian
Parties
Obviously
Lots
Political System
Going
Candidates
Different
Anything
Gain
Interest
Engaged
Use
It is not always easy to balance freedom of expression with the needs of the justice system.
Dominic Grieve
Needs
Freedom
Justice
Balance
System
Easy
Freedom Of Expression
Always
Expression
If you really believe the number one priority of our government is the protection of our people, then the idea of being defenseless against an intercontinental ballistic missile or any other type of weapon system that puts us in jeopardy is not acceptable.
Don Nickles
Government
You
People
Protection
Believe
Other
Type
Our
Our People
System
Weapon
Puts
Idea
Missile
Acceptable
Priority
Ballistic
Any
Being
Against
Then
Us
Really
Jeopardy
Number
While the circumnavigation of the solar system seems farfetched, it may not be once the problem of effective anti-gravitational control is solved.
Donald A. Wollheim
Problem
Solar
Control
Solar System
Once
System
Solved
Seems
Effective
May
While
The grand jury system - not just in Ferguson, but nationwide - needs a hard look. Millions feel that officers who are trigger-happy are handed a license to shoot - based not on facts, but on stereotypes the officers carry.
Donna Brazile
Needs
System
License
Carry
Facts
Feel
Stereotypes
Look
Ferguson
Handed
Officers
Shoot
Jury
Just
Nationwide
Grand
Grand Jury
Hard
Hard Look
Who
Based
Millions
I am interested in getting people to use the healthcare system at the right time, getting them to see the doctor early enough, before a small health problem turns serious.
Donna Shalala
Time
Health
People
Doctor
Problem
Before
Enough
Right Time
System
See
Small
Health Problem
Healthcare
Am
Getting
Interested
Them
Turns
Use
Serious
Right
Early
We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You can't come in unless you have these skills, unless you've taken these courses.' We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system.
Donna Shalala
Education
Saying
You
Quality
School
Higher Education
Drive
Down
Increased
Secondary
Secondary School
Unless
System
Higher
Taken
Wisconsin
School System
Come
Schools
Courses
Did
Transform
Century
Requirements
Skills
Helped
Need
You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite.
Donna Shalala
Knowledge
You
People
Genius
College
Meet
Latest
Backgrounds
System
Only
Simply
Also
Go
American
Different
Different Backgrounds
Europeans
Compared
Elite
Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.
Dora Russell
Democracy
People
Spring
Young
Action
System
Brought
Only
Democratic
Practising
Up
Close
Authoritarian
Expected
Young People
Early
Education standards need to be set at the state level. High standards are an important way to ensure that the education system we are funding is actually working and producing, at a minimum, what we would expect it to.
Doug Ducey
Education
Important
State
State Level
Way
Ensure
System
Minimum
High
Would
High Standards
Expect
Working
Producing
Standards
Actually
Level
Funding
Need
Set
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