You might not think of something like TurboTax as a civic venture, but that product took a confusing interface to a government process and made it simpler and easier to use for citizens.
Big government helps the people who have made it. It doesn't help the people who are trying to make it; it crushes the people who are trying to make it.
The Department of Energy made an investment that failed, and it got raked over the coals for that failed investment. This is ridiculous. The fact of the matter is, the government should be making a lot of risky investments, the majority of which are ...
The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated.
I once saw Dizzy Gillespie at a live show, and it made me want to go home immediately and start writing.
Everything I commission - whether it is for me or for a client's home or for a hotel or office - is absolutely unique to that job. I have everything made, or I find vintage and antique pieces at markets and auctions.
When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.
A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a better job.'
History is made every day. The challenge is getting everyone to pay attention to it.
I've made a dog's breakfast of English history, geography, 'King Lear,' and the English language in general.
Every actor in the room honored Sidney for being there so many years before. And everybody was so moved to be at a place where history was being made again. It was tangible.
He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.
Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.
As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue their work.
Kennedy invited us into the White House-the first time in the history of the White House picketers had been invited inside. This made front page headlines.
It made me think about a whole area of human activity that was not really a concern to me before that, because I was involved in reading Chinese history, or languages, or whatever.
Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made.
There's been a sea change in our focus on corporate ethics. We've made more progress in the last three years than the previous 30.
Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead a global effort to combat climate change.
