#standard

If you feel your school is failing you, the question is why. Is it a lack of parental involvement, large classes, school violence, poor learning environment? Are there any standards to determine where problems are? Are there tutoring or mentoring programs? If the school is still failing after 3 years then what are your options? ↗

— John Rowland

#any #classes #determine #environment #failing

Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged. ↗

— Frederick W. Smith

#get #judge #judged #leaders #out

We have no basis for having a recall of any particular type of voting equipment because there are no standards. And when we do have standards, even these standards are required to be voluntary. ↗

— DeForest Soaries

#basis #because #equipment #even #having

What we say is that democracy means that you have the right to vote without intimidation and undue burdens. But if you stand in line for six hours, technically, today there is no document, no standard, no law that says that that's wrong. ↗

— DeForest Soaries

#democracy #document #hours #intimidation #law

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#ago #always #believed #everyone #gotten

Imagine if investors in Wal-Mart really cared about bribery at that company's overseas operations or safety standards at its overseas manufacturing plants. If investors pulled their capital, corporate leaders would have to respond. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#bribery #capital #cared #company #corporate

Humans are very aggressive and scrappy, and go to war at the drop of a hat. However, a standard land war is no longer going to work as it is no longer technically possible. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#drop #go #going #hat #however

A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#articles #brings #dwarf #him #his

You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#deeper #envelope #lies #morals #pay

Simply put, broadband voice is an interstate matter that must be dealt with through clear national standards. ↗

— John Sununu

#clear #dealt #interstate #matter #must