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Reducing trade barriers with this key ally will go a long way toward increasing market access for American farmers, manufacturers and service providers. -- Jim Ramstad
Monetary policy itself cannot sensibly be directed at reducing imbalances. -- Timothy Geithner
Reducing military presence has never in history won a war. -- John McCain
Reducing the price of cancer drugs is a humanitarian move. -- Yusuf Hamied
Reducing the tax burden is necessary to produce economic growth. -- Bob Schaffer
Reducing a group to a slur or stereotype reduces us all. -- DaShanne Stokes
Reducing hunger should become the driving force for progress and hope -- Jacques Diouf
Reducing debt through budgetary consolidation is essential to restoring Europe's financial health. -- Victor Ponta
An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money. -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
Reducing the economic gap may be impossible without also addressing the gap in empathy. -- Daniel Goleman
Reducing the nuclear danger will require a universal, consistent opposition to all forms of weapons development -- David Cortright
Reducing the thinking required to take the next action increases the likelihood of the desired behavior occurring unconsciously. -- Nir Eyal
Reducing children to a test score is the worst form of identity theft we could commit in schools. -- Stephen Covey
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Reducing consumption is imperative, but it's pointless to cut out meat and cars while having lots of children -- Madeleine Bunting
Reducing health costs and increasing access to health care are worthy goals that every Member of Congress should support. -- Jim McCrery
Reducing our desires and eliminating false neediness is the answer to resolving the nagging inner discomfort that we feel. -- Angelina Love
Reducing every issue to an argument can become stale but it's often a very good way of clarifying issues. -- Evan Davis
It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd. -- Henry Miller
Reducing a product's definition to a list of features and functions ignores the real opportunity - orchestrating technological capability to serve human needs and goals. -- Alan Cooper
Reducing the budget for Amtrak makes no sense unless the Administration is prepared to implement a reform strategy which can be supported by the budget request. -- Christopher Bond
Reducing the budget for Amtrak makes no sense unless the Administration is prepared to implement a reform strategy which can be supported by the budget request. -- Christopher Bond
Reducing caloric intake is the only proven method of extending life. If caloric intake is reduced to 20 percent below maintenance, you can extend your lifespan considerably. -- S. Jay Olshansky
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Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance. -- Kofi Annan
Reducing and reusing take nothing more than a rethink on the way we shop, and using our imagination with the things that we might once have considered junk. -- Sheherazade Goldsmith
By such literalism, fundamentalism, religions betrayed the best intentions of their founders. Reducing thought to formula, replacing choice by obedience, these preachers turned the living word into dead law. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Reducing dietary salt is not only important for those who already have elevated blood pressure - limiting added salt is essential for all of us to remain in good health. -- Joel Fuhrman
Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country. -- Jane Fonda
We humans have become dependent on plastic for a range of uses, from packaging to products. Reducing our use of plastic bags is an easy place to start getting our addiction under control. -- David Suzuki
In the middle of a recession, where we're just climbing out of it, where the economy -unemployment is still at 9.7 percent, the idea of raising taxes and reducing spending is a prescription for disaster. -- Joe Biden
A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy. -- Rod Blagojevich
Reducing our dependence on foreign energy - that is critically important to America's economic future. Excellence in education - if we're not the best educated, we're not going to be the most powerful for very long. -- Kent Conrad
We run enormous risks and we know what kind of reductions of greenhouse gases are necessary to drastically reduce risks. Reducing emissions by half by 2050 is roughly in the right ballpark. It would bring us below 550 ppm. -- Nicholas Stern
Art is a service, not a product. Created beauty is a relationship, and a relationship with the Holy at that. Reducing such work to 'content' is like praying in swear words. End of Sermon. Back to business. -- John Perry Barlow
Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I've been thinking what else I could do. One day, I thought, 'Let's look at cancer and see how we can spare cancer patients' unnecessary suffering.' -- Yusuf Hamied
One must take draconian measures of demographic reduction against the will of the populations. Reducing the birth rate has proved to be impossible or insufficient. One must therefore increase the mortality rate. How? By natural means. Famine and sickness -- Robert McNamara
Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice. -- Radhanath Swami
Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice." -- Radhanath Swami
Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash. -- Ruth Ann Minner
In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it. -- Herman Kahn
And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it. -- Barack Obama
Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
America can enjoy a vital, fully functioning government, with all the benefits provided by Texas, while reducing Texas at the same time. -- Ian Frazier
Contraceptives have a proven track record of enhancing the health of women and children, preventing unintended pregnancy, and reducing the need for abortion. -- Louise Slaughter
Providing tax relief and reducing regulations leads to job creation and new economic opportunities for our small businesses, which are the backbone of our economy. -- Cathy McMorris Rodgers
I have significant concerns about reducing the 188th Fighter Wing's capabilities, and will fight tooth and nail against attempts to reduce its personnel or take away aircraft. -- Mark Pryor
Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization some how releases or frees you to operate more effectively. -- Larry King
Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons and from further proliferation. -- Kofi Annan
I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs -- Lamar Alexander
Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing. -- Chris Christie
The NRA was one of the items that we pointed to when we added money to the labor, health and Education appropriations bill by reducing the size of the tax cut. -- Dave Obey
Men who are engaged in public life must necessarily aim at reducing opposition to a minimum, and one of the most obvious means to that end is by misrepresenting, discrediting or ruining their opponents. -- Frederick Scott Oliver
But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nations economic viability. -- Jim Clyburn
Rome should sometimes intervene and say this or that is not in conformity with the Catholic faith. Theologians should understand that. Some theologians go too far, for example, reducing the Catholic faith to a universal philosophy. -- Godfried Danneels
I'm coming to Washington, D.C., to do the people's work. And the people's work has to do with reducing spending and cutting budgets and, and trying to get a grip on the size of government. -- Ken Buck
If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone. -- Aasif Mandvi
What's happened is that an incessant, an insidious insurgency has repeatedly attacked the key infrastructure targets, reducing outputs. -- Stuart Bowen
As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools. -- Jack Markell
My own view is that being a vegetarian or vegan is not an end in itself, but a means towards reducing both human and animal suffering and leaving a habitable planet to future generations. -- Peter Singer
Doing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and associated health care costs to strengthening and diversifying the economy by shifting to renewable energy, among other measures. -- David Suzuki
But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nation's economic viability. -- Jim Clyburn
Armchair poverty tourism has been around as long as authors have written about class. As an author, I have struggled myself with the nuances of writing about poverty without reducing any community to a catalog of its difficulties. -- Leslie Jamison
Today we're dumping 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the environment, and tomorrow we will dump more, and there is no effective worldwide response. Until we start sharply reducing global-warming pollution, I will feel that I have failed. -- Al Gore
You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational - and probably sexual! -- George Herman
Environmentalists have been outspoken in their support of smaller family size and abortion rights as keys to reducing global warming. But when it comes to immigration, the single biggest contributor to population growth in the industrial world, they stand largely silent. -- Gary Bauer
Clean energy is about offering people the opportunity to do what's right for themselves and the people they love. It's about reducing the pollution that makes people sick. It's about helping the low-income families struggling to pay their gas and electricity bills. -- Gloria Reuben
I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions. -- Harry Browne
As far as protecting yourself against Alzheimer's disease, well, it turns out that fish oil has the effect of reducing your risk for Alzheimer's disease. You should also keep your blood pressure down, because chronic high blood pressure is the biggest single risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. -- Gregory Petsko
And fifth, we will champion small businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare. -- Mitt Romney
We need to remind ourselves that our ultimate goal is not to reduce greenhouse gases or global warming per se but to improve the quality of life and the environment. We all want to leave the planet in decent shape for our kids. Radically reducing greenhouse gas emissions is not necessarily the best way to achieve that. -- Thomas P.M. Barnett
Love is reducing the universe to one being. -- Victor Hugo
Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another. -- Claude Levi-Strauss
Frentzen is taking, er, reducing that gap between himself and Frentzen. -- Murray Walker
And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value-added wastes. -- Taiichi Ohno
Most people think money is the key to reducing risk. Prepartion is. -- Mark Cuban
Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes. -- Kamala Harris
'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes. -- Kamala Harris
It's reducing my entire professional career and background to this one word [mistress]. -- Paula Broadwell
Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better. -- Georges Braque
nothing says 'I love you' like reducing yourself to a smoldering pile of ashes -- Cassandra Clare
Parents don't believe that lifting life-chances in one school means reducing them in another. -- David Blunkett
Love is the science of reducing your sound while upping the amplitude of another person. -- Jarod Kintz
Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps. -- James Heckman
The major media companies are significantly reducing their financial commitment to the motion picture sector. -- Peter Bart
The quicker we get about the business of reducing our reliance on oil the better. -- Condoleezza Rice
Another good reducing exercise consists in placing both hands against the table edge and pushing back -- Robert Quillen
Deregulation has been, above all else, a means of reducing corporate business's accountability to the public. -- Herbert Schiller
But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government. -- James Q. Wilson
But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government -- James Q. Wilson
Drawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper. -- Eduardo Souto de Moura
There's a lot of evidence that fruits and vegetables are beneficial for reducing the risk of stroke. -- Walter Willett
There's no shortage of Democrats who are at least as committed as Schwarzenegger to reducing greenhouse gases. -- Timothy Noah
The road to recovery is to stimulate small business and innovation by reducing taxation, regulation, and litigation. -- Sandy Adams
I would renounce, therefore, the attempt to create heaven on earth, and focus instead on reducing the hell. -- Alan Borovoy
The problem is government spends too much. So raising taxes is what politicians do, instead of reducing spending. -- Grover Norquist
We must move from revenue-neutral to revenue-reducing tax reform, because the federal government spends far too much money. -- Carly Fiorina
Any so-called stimulus program is a ruse. The government can increase its spending only by reducing private spending equivalently. -- Richard Wagner
To make sustainable progress in reducing extreme poverty will require improvements in both the quantity and quality of aid. -- Peter Singer
The fact that somebody is reducing your salary is just telling me they're not satisfied with what you're doing. -- Joe Torre
As governor, Im spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools. -- Jack Markell
I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government. -- Milton Friedman
In middle age I've begun to embrace stress reducing behaviors. Just in doing yoga, for example, my health has improved dramatically. -- James Redford
Developing love and compassion and reducing anger and spite is a universal activity which requires no faith in any religion whatsoever -- Dalai Lama
Growth is improving the lot of the poor in many countries, reducing poverty by half since 1981. Freer trade could accelerate progress. -- Francois Bourguignon
The largest tax reduction in American history, one page tax form, reducing government spending. Those are all the keys to economic progress. -- Rudy Giuliani
Pity sidesteps complexity in favor of narratives that we're comfortable with, reducing the nuances of a person's experience to a sound bite. -- Phil Klay
Any teaching will not transform you as long as you are deeply attached to your body. Yoga is towards reducing this attachment. -- Jaggi Vasudev
A diet is a plan, generally hopeless, for reducing your weight, which tests your will power but does little for your waistline. -- Herbert V. Prochnow
I worry that even well-intentioned attempts to "improve nature" (say by reducing suffering) will make things worse even in their own terms. -- Dale Jamieson
I am perfectly happy to compromise whether it's with Democrats or anybody else, as long as we're reducing the size of government. -- Ted Cruz
True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing men to one's service but in giving oneself in selfless service to them. -- J. Oswald Sanders
In terms of production, newspaper publishers are continuing to focus principally on automation as the key to reducing production costs and general overheads. -- Eric Bell
The world has been gradually reducing its nuclear arsenals. Testing must stop so that progress on the destruction of nuclear weapons may begin. -- Jenny Shipley
Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it were! -- Pope John Paul II
And most countries are now reducing the number of conscripts and increasing the professionals that are available because they're available on short notice. -- Lord Robertson
Today it's normal. Photos used to be a support to the text, but we turned things around, reducing the words to a minimum. -- Franca Sozzani
The number one priority now is reducing the deficit that they [Labour] left us - the biggest deficit since the Second World War. -- Iain Duncan Smith
A diet rich in fruits and vegetables plays a role in reducing the risk of all the major causes of illness and death -- Walter Willett

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