Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Attias

Not only do African students deserve excellent universities, they deserve good elementary and secondary schools, too - and then, to have access to ongoing vocational and job training to ensure their skills remain as relevant as possible to African organizations.

The College Access and Opportunity Act addresses the important need to make higher education more affordable and easier to access for low and middle-income students.

Ron Wyden

Protect IP (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) are a step towards a different kind of Internet. They are a step towards an Internet in which those with money and lawyers and access to power have a greater voice than those who don't.

Sheri Fink

In the United States, Western Europe and Japan, there is widespread access to dialysis, most of it publicly funded. But in many countries, the majority of patients who need dialysis die without it.

Bob Goodlatte

Fair trade is vital to U.S. producers and we will continue to seek access to markets for our producers as well as continuing to reduce trade barriers to U.S. products.

Failing to provide children adequate access to nutritious food not only endangers their emotional, physical and mental development, but it also puts all aspects of their future well-being at risk. The costs are too high when you short-change children.

Christopher Moore

Fan mail typically goes through your publisher and you don't get it for a long time. So you look like a jerk even if you answer them because it's been three or four months since they wrote you. With e-mail it's instantaneous. And it's a way that people have access to me, while I maintain my privacy.

Michael Ramsey

Both sides have to have access to witnesses in order to try a case.

Both the enterprise traditional access point and the SOHO (small office/home office) segments surpassed the $1 billion landmark in 2005.

Andrew Cuomo

You can be a lender who wants to compete and have a better product, but you just can't get to the students. The schools are controlling the access to the students.

Andrew Young

Everybody in America has been dependent on the government at some time. We owe everybody in America the right to vote and access to capital. What I say is, let's make America work, let's make democracy and free enterprise work for everybody.

Alison Gopnik

Overall, female scientists have fewer resources than male scientists, just as poor people have less access to health care. But if you compare male and female scientists with identical resources, you find that the women are just as likely to be successful.

Pete Wilson

The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to information not available to the general public, nor does it cloak the inmate with special rights of freedom of speech.

Muhammad Yunus

The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries.

Mohamed ElBaradei

We now have the right to have immediate, unfettered access to any site in Iraq and we have the right to interview people, both inside and outside Iraq.

David Bowie

Being shoved into the top-40 scene was an unusual experience. It was great I'd become accessible to a huge audience but not terribly fulfilling.

Britt Robertson

As a kid, I would always shop for my back-to-school clothes at department stores. I lived in a small town, and department stores were all we had access to.

The governor was basically arguing that anything could be denied that could be considered part of any terrorist activity. One of the possible casualties of Sept. 11 could have been access to public information ... as the horror of Sept. 11 has receded, I think people are taking a more sober look at the need for public access.

The governor's vision is to make Vermont affordable for Vermonters by offering a scholarship program that is going to put a college education within reach to thousands of people who currently don't have access to it.

The governor has ... always maintained there needs to be more green space, more open space and more public access to the waterfront.

E. O. Wilson

The government has rightly focused on the mantra of 'Internet access for all,' but people need to have everyday work, family and leisure reasons for taking advantage of access.

Well I think the media has a very powerful influence on almost anything and everything we do because the general public gets their perception of what is going on in things they don't have immediate access to from what they get through the media.

We've been on Entertainment Tonight, Access Hollywood and the Today Show ... But we've had to cut down some of it to concentrate on our game and not be distracted.

We see now that 85 percent of the population has access to primary healthcare services in camp settings. You see that more children are in school than ever before - something like 300,000 - and 46 percent are girls. Water supply and sanitation is something like 70 percent of the population. That is something we have never seen, and we struggled very hard to build that up.

We see it as granting access that could provide least-developed countries with the incentive to make improvements in quality and marketing.

Paul Brown

We're thrilled to continue our preferred partnership with Enterprise, one of the largest and most well-respected companies in the car rental market. This relationship brings value and convenience to our customers and it represents a step forward in our commitment to form long-lasting and meaningful relationships with our valued supply partners. It also signifies our firm commitment to give our customers access to great prices, unparalleled service, choice and trusted advice.

We're testing several factors. One is profitability and another is what members think is a fair price for the content and access we provide. Neither is set in stone and the price may end up being a midpoint.

We're talking about people in their 30s wanting to take a sabbatical and see the world, go back to school, fix up a house or have a baby. The attraction that 401(k) accounts will have for people who can't touch them until they're in their 60s won't be as strong as the attraction of an employer participation program where employees can access those funds earlier in their lives. They'll want to make some of their dreams come true earlier rather than later.

The Government of Canada recognizes the need for readers in all regions of the country to have affordable access to a diversity of Canadian reading material,

The grant recipients were selected because they are offering innovative and successful solutions to key health issues in communities across the state. The selected programs and services are reaching Floridians who do not have access to traditional health care options.

Arundhati Roy

Everybody can't have the life of a normal, average American person in India - they can't. So, it's about egalitarianism. It's about sharing things more equally. It's about access to natural resources.

Maya Angelou

All information belongs to everybody all the time. It should be available. It should be accessible to the child, to the woman, to the man, to the old person, to the semiliterate, to the presidents of universities, to everyone. It should be open.

Jonathan Martin

The problem is that by their very nature, they are not fixed, not commonly managed by the IT organization and can be lost, stolen or are open to abuse. Without being part of a corporate IT policy, but still being able to gain access to and organizations resources, the danger is that in the wrong pair of hands they provide an open access channel into an organization's applications.