Charter Quotes - Page 5

• They will say I smoked cigarettes and marijuana, cursed hoarse as a crow in all my languages, and loved morphine and Demerol and tequila and pulque, women and men. I will shrug my illusion of shoulders and answer that I am a water woman, not a vessel, not something you can sail or charter. I am instead the tributary, the river, the fluid source, and the sea itself. I am all her rainy implications. And what do you, with your rusted compass, know of love?

  Kate Braverman

  Love, Men, Marijuana

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• That it is not enough to catch a criminal and get them convicted and so on, because the victim remains with the consequences of the crime. Something needs to be done. Let's complete that process, interact with civil society about this, so that we will specify what is it that we do in the context of that Charter that would then make this positive impact on people who might have been affected by crime.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Impact, People, Needs

  Source: www.gov.za

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• In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by Power. In America ... charters of power [are] granted by liberty.

  James Madison

  Government, Europe, America

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• I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests with ZERO-G [a charter-flight service in Arlington, Va., that uses modified Boeing 727s to simulate weightlessness], which went great.

  Richard Branson

  Zero, Adventure, Phoenix

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• The only role other than paying their taxes, whatever those are, the only role for philanthropy broadly - of which the rich should give disproportionately - the more, the better - and I think there is a positive trend in that direction - there are certain risk-taking things, like trying out a new type of charter school or funding a new kind of medicine.

  Bill Gates

  School, Thinking, Medicine

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

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• Reversed [Hillary Clinton's] position on charter schools, reversed her position on changing the way our urban education is run, because she has sold out to the teachers union.

  Chris Christie

  Running, Teacher, School

  "'This Week' Transcript: Gov. Chris Christie and DNC Chair Donna Brazile". abcnews.go.com. August 28, 2016.

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• I mentioned charter schools, and experimenting with our school system, to make it work. I think that's something we really have to pay attention to.

  Barack Obama

  School, Thinking, Attention

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I've consistently said, we need to support charter schools. I think it is important to experiment, by looking at how we can reward excellence in the classroom.

  Barack Obama

  School, Thinking, Support

  Source: www.politico.com

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• In my opinion, provision of military support to illegal structures runs counter to the principles of modern international law and the United Nations Charter.

  Vladimir Putin

  Running, Military, Law

  "Interview to American TV channel CBS and PBS". Interview with Charlie Rose, en.kremlin.ru. September 29, 2015.

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• [Betsy DeVos] does care about charter schools, which are public schools. She does care about choice, which is a perfectly legitimate thing to care about. It's because it's the one issue where the Democratic donor base was really energized, which was the teacher unions.

  David Brooks

  Teacher, School, Issues

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The federal court has not commented on niqab as being a violation of any putative Charter right, but rather has said that the court believes that the policy ought to be anchored in legislation or regulation as opposed to an administrative order from the Minister. We disagree with that. But this is not a Charter ruling.

  Jason Kenney

  Believe, Policy, Disagree

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Of course one always has to follow international law. This was also the case in Crimea. According to the Charter of the United Nations, every people has the right to self-determination.

  Vladimir Putin

  Determination, Self, Law

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Betsy DeVos is not the most informed person on education policy, but I have seen her present a few times, and she presents as a pretty respectable, intelligent person who has cared passionately about education and cares about charter schools.

  David Brooks

  School, Intelligent, Care

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• This [EURO] was never a hate group, the European American Unity and Rights Organization was an organization in its charter is dedicated to true civil rights and stopping discrimination against people, that the best qualified people should be engaged and that every people have the right to preserve their heritage, their freedom and their values.

  David Duke

  Hate, Rights, Organization

  "CNN-Edited Interview Proves that Dr. Duke is Right about Zio-Censorship!". CNN Interview, davidduke.com. January 7, 2015.

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• These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings The peasant's food, the golden pomp of kings; This is the page whose letters shall be seen, Changed by the sun to words of living green; This is the scholar whose immortal penSpells the first lesson hunger taught to men; These are the lines that heaven-commanded Toil Shows on his deed, - the charter of the soil!

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Life, Kings, Men

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• The story goes on in the sense that at a most basic level, the United States ignored, that is violated, the United Nations charter when it invaded Iraq in 2003. This is not wise policy.

  John Burroughs

  Wise, Iraq, United States

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• Just, as I have traveled around from school to school, whether it's project-based learning or an outward bound curriculum, it's very hard to tell the difference between charters and public anymore. There's no fine line.

  David Brooks

  School, Differences, Lines

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The charter school is a possibility, an alternative in certain circumstances, but not in most, and not in most places, and not - most parents don't have either the time, the inclination or the aptitude to sit and go through sifting what school and what is available and what the options are.

  Mark Shields

  School, Parent, Alternatives

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think charter schools, choice, and frankly school standards need a champion.

  David Brooks

  School, Thinking, Choices

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The Senate, compared to the House, is where things are supposed to slow down, by design, Founding Father design. The Founding Fathers were hell-bent to stop government action. The Constitution limited government. And that's why people like Obama and Democrats call it a charter of negative liberties because it limits government. It's an anti-government, pro-citizen document. And the founders wanted to make it hard.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Father, Government, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The invention of the concept of sustainable human development and that of so-called human security, as opposed to territorial security of nation- states, and its promotion by the UN is in clear contradiction to all that we, the Group of 77, and the UN Charter itself consider inalienable, namely national sovereignty and security.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  Development, Groups, Promotion

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• Apparently almost anyone can do a better job of educating children than our so-called 'educators' in the public schools. Children who are home-schooled by their parents also score higher on tests than children educated in the public schools. ... Successful education shows what is possible, whether in charter schools, private schools, military schools or home-schooling. The challenge is to provide more escape hatches from failing public schools, not only to help those students who escape, but also to force these institutions to get their act together before losing more students and jobs.

  Thomas Sowell

  Jobs, Children, Military

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• To paraphrase president Kennedy's inaugural, the torch has been passed to a new generation of cartoonists and they are doing really interesting stuff, taking the old cliches and breathing new life into them and inventing new ones. This doesn't mean the previous generation of which I'm a charter member isn't doing good stuff but this new material is invigorating everyone.

  Robert Mankoff

  Mean, Breathing, Interesting

  "Ask the Author Live: Robert Mankoff on the Cartoon Issue". The New Yorker Interview, www.newyorker.com. October 21, 2011.

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• It was during the Reagan years that defiance of international law and the U.N. Charter became entirely open.

  Noam Chomsky

  Years, Law, Defiance

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• Younger teachers are definitely more likely to have worked at charter schools as opposed to have just heard of them. Charter schools explicitly look, often, to hire younger people. I've even talked to people who didn't necessarily go into teaching thinking they wanted to work at a charter school or even may have been considered critics of the charter school movement, and found that it was the only way for them to get their foot in the door. So young people just have much more familiarity with the concept.

  Dana Goldstein

  Teacher, Teaching, School

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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