Parents don’t like it, administrators don’t like it, and kids don’t like it, but politicians and bureaucrats in Washington love it–which should be the first indication to you that it is a troubled program.
BOB SCHAFFERGood policy always trumps bad public relations and the best PR can’t trump bad policy.
More Bob Schaffer Quotes
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My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.
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One thing young people have to always keep in mind when deciding what they want to do with their lives is, is it fun? Is it something that I’m interested in? Is it something I enjoy?
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It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.
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They’ve asked me to do this temporarily. I don’t know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.
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Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has to appeal to the commander’s boss to get that changed.
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The government’s view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn’t want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better.
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The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.
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One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.
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Mitt Romney is betting big on himself and left no doubt about it.
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The first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way.
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When Sam Snead was asked how to putt, he said, ‘Putt for one hundred dollars’.
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Government is just spending too much money.
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But if you don’t enjoy doing something, you’ll be miserable no matter how much money you make.
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And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to journalism. I didn’t graduate with honors, but I did graduate on time and with some doing.
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But with 9/11, we found that people tended to come back to the networks and the people who had been our core viewers in the past came back and they have stayed with us.
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