After Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election, I was heartened to see him issue an Open Government Initiative on his first full day in office.
Jesse Ventura
DayGovernmentElectionInitiative
All too often, a corporate innovation initiative starts and ends with a board meeting mandate to the CEO followed by a series of memos to the staff, with lots of posters and one-day workshops. This typically creates 'innovation theater' but very little innovation.
Steve Blank
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Actually, I have been very supportive of a very robust stimulus package from day one. I think this economy has to have a major stimulus initiative because the only group with liquidity is the federal government.
Judd Gregg
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Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.
Boris Spassky
ChessInitiativePoorMoreModern
The Trump administration has been characterized by adhocracy during its initial months. The initiative limiting immigration is a case in point. The new policy was not vetted fully within the administration - indeed, then-Acting Attorney General Sally Yates first read the decision after the text of the new executive order was published online.
Richard N. Haass
DecisionImmigrationNewInitiative
Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws.
George Soros
RespectAlcoholProcessInitiative
Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack.
Wilhelm Steinitz
InitiativeRightAttackOnlyPlayer
The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do - by yourself, upon your own initiative.
Harry Browne
YourselfYouImportantInitiative
We must take the initiative; we must be permanently on the offensive. It is the battle of class struggle. We must keep the enemy always on the defensive.
Samora Machel
StruggleBattleEnemyInitiative
The American political system is based on the president taking the initiative and Congress responding. With President Trump, it's been the opposite.
H. W. Brands
AmericanPoliticalInitiativeSystem
The Clean Michigan Initiative has been and continues to be a success.
John Engler
SuccessInitiativeCleanBeen
The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.
Stephen Covey
LifeResponsibilityKeyInitiative
I think the court will determine that the Faith-Based Initiative that the White House has instituted in the last five years is constitutional, in the context of allowing for broad-based programs to include religious providers.
Jay Alan Sekulow
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I never had any initiative or drive to be a success in business.
Bobby Riggs
SuccessBusinessDriveInitiative
I hope that France - and all of Europe - we would take an initiative for the year 2012 to be the year of peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
Nicolas Sarkozy
HopePeaceYearInitiativeEurope
A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.
Franz Liszt
TheatreRecognitionInitiativeWhich
I'm on the board of the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, which is run by Dr. Stacy Smith - she conceived of the inclusion rider. What I love about the inclusion rider is it uses the fact that Hollywood is based on hierarchies, and it knows that these key players have persuasive power.
Nell Scovell
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I think that the president of Iran has the authority wherever which - where - wherever the national interests of the country are involved and, when it is necessary and expedient and required to speak and talk with others in order to promote the rights of its nation, that the president can take that initiative.
Hassan Rouhani
SpeakThinkCountryInitiativeTalk
A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
Tacitus
BlessingInitiativeCrimeMoreFew
I'm the spokesperson for the Multifaith Alliance for Syrian Refugees. My father was from Syria. It's an American initiative, and it's multi-faith. So, it's maybe 60-65 different organisations, Jews, Christians, Hindus... Anyway, it's very important and serious.
F. Murray Abraham
FatherAmericanSeriousInitiative
The most important initiative you could take to improve the world economy would be to stabilize the dollar-euro rate.
Robert Mundell
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I grew up with a lot of people whose whole prime mover was dad rage. I never really had it - it always seemed so empty. It always seemed to be masking something else, which was really their own lack of initiative.
Robert Downey, Jr.
PeopleInitiativeNeverRageEmpty
Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.
Douglas Haig
LossInitiativePolicyDefensive
I'm a gay rights supporter. I'm a human-rights campaign initiative person.
Anthony Scaramucci
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