#thousand

If you think black people have a motivation problem, open up a Wal-Mart and advertise a thousand jobs. Watch 5,000 people show up. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#black #jobs #motivation #open #people

In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don't have a plan for reconstruction at home. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#build #democracy #die #every #home

Thousands of present day students, like many of our Founding Fathers, are being taught at home. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#day #fathers #founding #founding fathers #home

My point is that, over the years, I've taught five thousand people acting and lately I have a lot of energy on these kids, having the same break I had as a high school girl. ↗

— Sally Kirkland

#break #energy #five #girl #had

A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#country #hundreds #me #moon #people

I always thought after 2002 that I'd hang up my skates and turn professional and just go on tour and do shows. But I don't know when it is enough. I mean, I still enjoy it. I'm the luckiest girl alive that I get to perform in front of thousands of people, do what I love doing. ↗

— Michelle Kwan

#alive #always #doing #enjoy #enough

If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls. ↗

— Guido van Rossum

#decide #design #designer #language #own

When the START 2 treaty has been implemented - and remember it has not yet been ratified - we will be left with some 15,000 nuclear warheads, active and in reserve. Fifteen thousand weapons with an average yield of 20 Hiroshima bombs. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#average #been #bombs #fifteen #hiroshima

In the Cleveland area, I have been instrumental in helping to save or create thousands of jobs. People know me there as a person who gets involved. ↗

— Dennis Kucinich

#been #cleveland #create #gets #helping

You're feeling the responsibility for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people on your shoulder in a way that I couldn't feel as lieutenant governor. ↗

— William Scranton

#feeling #governor #hundreds #i #lieutenant