Steve Inskeep Quotes

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• The number of CEOs voluntarily leaving their jobs or being forced out spiked early. Many of those companies will be turning to an interim CEO to take the reins. These temporary leaders are increasingly in demand, according to those who watch corner office trends.

  Steve Inskeep

  Jobs, Numbers, Office

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• Toward the end of the campaign, we interviewed some voters in Raleigh, N.C., which is a generally Democratic city, and I'm thinking of a young couple. They had two kids. They described themselves as Christian. They oppose gay marriage. And they were saying that even though they didn't like Donald Trump, they were thinking of voting for him. And one of the reasons was they felt that they were - their very views were making them socially unacceptable. They were feeling a little alienated from the world.

  Steve Inskeep

  Christian, Couple, Kids

  Source: www.npr.org

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• President-elect [Donald] Trump has made a provocative choice for secretary of education. Betsy DeVos comes from a wealthy Michigan family. She is an advocate for school choice. That phrase means, in essence, directing public education money to charter schools, private schools or parochial schools.

  Steve Inskeep

  School, Mean, Essence

  Source: www.npr.org

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• In this country tonight, PBS shows one of the most talked about tributes of the year.

  Steve Inskeep

  Country, Years, Pbs

  "PBS To Air Eddie Murphy Receiving The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize". "On Point" with Steve Inskeep, wfae.org. November 23, 2015.

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• I do know that a law professor there [in Columbia University] published an article calling me a white supremacist.

  Steve Inskeep

  Law, White, Calling

  Source: www.npr.org

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• To take one example, I mean, the whole issue of bathrooms and gender - in this particular election, when the stakes were so high, the fact that Democrats and liberals, more generally, lost a lot of political capital on this issue that frightened people. People were misinformed about certain things, but it was really a question of where young people would be going to the bathroom and where they would be in lockers.

  Steve Inskeep

  Mean, Issues, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• India may be overtaking China as the world's most polluted country. Even now, which country is worse depends on the day.

  Steve Inskeep

  Country, India, World

  "India May Be Overtaking China As Most Polluted Country". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. November 23, 2016.

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• I would say that the one incredible thing that Karachi has going for it is the unabated supply of new migrants that pour into it day after day. It could be a poor factory worker who simply wants a job, it could be an ambitious guy coming for an education - they all add hope and vibrancy to the city. Now, this is not something that is generally taken as positive in Karachi. But the hope is that the migration that comes into the city replenishes its stores of resilience and energy.

  Steve Inskeep

  Taken, Guy, Resilience

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• People don't know where they stand and what they're going to lose, and that makes things uncertain. The political parties try to meld people together, but then that becomes a problem. There are parallels here, to American cities, which, in the '80s, with massive rural to urban migration, saw incredible amounts of violence.

  Steve Inskeep

  Party, People, Political

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We've learned something about President-elect [Donald] Trump's choice for secretary of defense. Lawmakers in Congress intend to proper debate over whether retired General James Mattis meets a requirement for civilian control of the military.

  Steve Inskeep

  Military, Choices, President

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Tradition has to be retaken by the liberal forces, so that they can show their values of tolerance and democracy not as novel western ideas but as ones indigenous to Pakistan, as a part of its very creation.

  Steve Inskeep

  Ideas, Tolerance, Democracy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• People who want a different Pakistan have to find a way to go back into their own past and revive the vision of their founders, that was clearly a tolerant and diverse one, so that they can distinguish it from the one that has been imposed upon it. If they can do that, they can take back this city and their country.

  Steve Inskeep

  Country, Past, Cities

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Karachi captures all of those rifts between ancient and modern, communal and individual. You see them playing out in people's lives.

  Steve Inskeep

  People, Rift, Ancient

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The fact that - I mean, these are things to be talked about. You can't do anything without educating the public, right? And that's a slow work.

  Steve Inskeep

  Mean, Facts

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Karachi has had an overdose of history, too much has happened.

  Steve Inskeep

  Too Much, Overdose, Happened

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Congress can grant a waiver [for General James Mattis ] and has done that once in history.

  Steve Inskeep

  Done, General James Mattis, Waiver

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I've just been flooded with emails of people just giving testimonies of their lives, saying exactly this. I got an email from a guy who works for some sort of defense contractor, some lower-level job, served in the military. And he said, look, I served in the military with black and Latino soldiers. My supervisor is a young black woman who's smart as a whip, and I admire her, and we get along great.

  Steve Inskeep

  Jobs, Smart, Military

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I belong to a bowling team with black and Latino coworkers. And when we get together and we talk about politics - I'm almost quoting him - he said, we don't talk about Black Lives Matters. We talk about what matters to our families. We talk about jobs, and we talk about the fate of the country. That is America, and you can reach those people.

  Steve Inskeep

  Country, Jobs, Team

  Source: www.npr.org

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• When the Defense Department was established after World War II, a law said that any defense secretary with military experience must have been out of the military at least seven years. General [James] Mattis doesn't meet that.

  Steve Inskeep

  Military, War, Years

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The Republican critique here is that Russia is in a weak situation, but has been emboldened by a weak response from the United States, that in Ukraine, that in other places, the United States has not stepped forward.

  Steve Inskeep

  Republican, Weak, Situation

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I see parallels between Karachi and the cities that I was familiar with: a very different place, but in terms of its human stories not really very different at all. That was what excited me about the place - that it was so complex, as difficult to me as an outsider and yet so human in a way that was ultimately very familiar.

  Steve Inskeep

  Different, Outsiders, Excited

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We need to be stronger. We need to deter the Russians. We need to show resolve, which is why cooperating with them on the other hand can be more difficult.

  Steve Inskeep

  Stronger, Difficult, Resolve

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Putin himself is a bit of a risk taker, so the invading Ukraine, in the east in particular - Crimea was risky.

  Steve Inskeep

  Risk

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The Kremlin, this cadre of people supporting Vladimir Putin, and Vladimir Putin himself understand is strength, is resolve.

  Steve Inskeep

  People, Resolve

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The president-elect seems to want Russia as a friend. President Obama arguably has not wanted to say that Russia is that great of a threat.

  Steve Inskeep

  President, President Obama, Threat

  Source: www.pbs.org

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