#priorities

As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of studies show that when women control the family funds, they generally spend more on health, nutrition, and education - and less on alcohol and cigarettes. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#alcohol #cigarettes #control #education #family

That's not to say that women's priorities are better than men's. Rather, when women are empowered, when they can speak from the experience of their own lives, they often address different, previously neglected issues. And families and whole communities benefit. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#benefit #better #communities #different #empowered

Democratic priorities remain clear: to provide a tax cut for working families, to promote policies that produce jobs and economic growth, and to assist millions of our fellow Americans who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#clear #cut #democratic #economic #economic growth

The space industry is developing and delivering benefits that tie into our immediate needs and priorities here on Earth-for example, medical and materials research, and satellite communications. ↗

— Marc Garneau

#communications #delivering #developing #example #for example

Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#financial #legislative #obama #obama administration #priorities

I'm still disturbed if a chord isn't together, but your priorities change as you get older. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#chord #disturbed #get #i #older

I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I've done it all and there's a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#again #done #faith #family #fill

Beyond reducing individual use, one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energy that has fewer detrimental effects on water supplies and fewer environmental impacts overall. ↗

— David Suzuki

#detrimental #effects #energy #environmental #fewer

Some argue we should get coal, oil and gas out of the ground as quickly as possible, build more pipelines and make as much money as we can selling it here and abroad. Their priorities are the economy and meeting short-term energy needs so we can live the lives to which we've become accustomed. ↗

— David Suzuki

#accustomed #argue #become #build #coal

Of course it was a terrible thing, and the world would be a much better place without someone in it who could do that, but did that mean we had to miss lunch? ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

#lunch #perspective #priorities #humor