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Increased and better screening for explosives is necessary - and Congress should fund it and TSA should implement it as quickly as possible - however that screening doesn't reduce the risk posed by a trained terrorist with an unconventional weapon. (Dave Reichert)
You would think that if any group in America had 20% to 25% unemployment, it would generate all kinds of attention. The Labor Department would understandably and necessarily begin to concentrate on what can we do to reduce this level of unemployment. Congress would give great time on the floor for debate on what can be done. View quote
Emanuel Cleaver
We all want merit to mean something, and we all may be tempted to reduce that meaning to something measurable and concrete like an SAT score. The reality, though, is that who deserves entry into an institution depends on what the institution exists to do. View quote
Eric Liu
OFSTED has made large cuts in the paperwork which schools are asked to provide and further steps to reduce the bureaucratic burden will be introduced in September. View quote
Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
Surveillance cameras might reduce crime - even though the evidence here is mixed - but no studies show that they result in greater happiness of everyone involved. View quote
Evgeny Morozov
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves. View quote
Edwin Way Teale
You reduce illegal immigration by making it harder to get jobs here, or easier to get jobs south of the border. This idea that we can't pass an immigration law until we hit some imaginary security target is just a way to derail reform. View quote
Gail Collins
Some people start a sport just to reduce weight, or some say, 'My doctor ordered me to run and do exercise', and for others, they run for completely different benefits. But it is not like that with sport. We need to eat, we need to rest, but also we need to run. View quote
Haile Gebrselassie
Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins. View quote
James S. Coleman
Technology and robotics are advancing and will reduce the need for workers in the future. View quote
Jan C. Ting
Plan Colombia was supposed to reduce Colombia's cultivation and distribution of drugs by 50 percent, but 6 years and $4.7 billion later, the drug control results are meager at best. (Jan Schakowsky)
In the housing projects, people talked of ways to reduce crime, relieve overcrowding, and they were good ideas that we plan to study, and possibly implement. View quote
Jane Byrne
My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence. View quote
Janet Reno
I've voted in some cases to remove and reduce tax breaks for the oil industry in other cases I've voted not to because I felt that the proposals covered too much. View quote
Jeff Bingaman
Budget cuts are a sad reality in most newsrooms, and I am concerned that they reduce the collective muscle of journalists who are doing the expensive, and often dangerous, work of on-the-ground reporting. View quote
Jill Abramson
We must prepare the ground for creativity. And if this also gives rise later to success in the economic sense, success in terms of Euros and Cents, this will by no means reduce my joy. View quote
Johannes Rau
Our goal is to make Maine the healthiest state in the nation and reduce our overall health care costs. View quote
John Baldacci
Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean abomination. It is a quack bolus to reduce masculinity even by the obliteration of femininity. View quote
John Boyle O'Reilly
Any objective look at what science has to say about climate change ought to be sufficient to persuade reasonable people that the climate is changing and that humans are responsible for a substantial part of that - and that these changes are doing harm and will continue to do more harm unless we start to reduce our emissions. View quote
John Holdren
New Zealand as a whole needs to save more, spend less and reduce our reliance on foreign debt. View quote
John Key
My hope is that we continue to do an even better job in terms of our nation's energy policy, so that we may even further reduce our reliance on foreign sources of oil and take better care of our environment in the process. (John M. McHugh)
We're focused on doing the things that make the economy perform well, and as you do that, reduce deficits, for one, very important; secondly, keep growth rates high, very important. View quote
John W. Snow
I think we'll build a consensus for action on Social Security reform which will reduce that long-term unfunded obligation and put the system on a sustainable basis. View quote
John W. Snow
It is very rewarding to serve the country by helping President Bush work to reduce the drug problem. View quote
John Walters
Taking responsible steps to reduce poverty is not merely a moral imperative but an economic one. View quote
John Yarmuth