Stephen Friedman Quotations

We're in a society where an awful lot of the institutions we have were built for a different era, an era where we had 16 workers for every retiree.

What we want to focus on long-term is how to make America the most productive economy in the world. That's what lifts income, enables workers to be paid more and makes foreign investors want to invest here.

keen judgment in setting the bar at a very high, but attainable, level; balance and unflinching boldness in the face of great pressure; and stress-leavening presidential humor.

It brings the class to life in a way that few would ever imagine.

Just a few years after he would have graduated, Kanye West is at the epicenter of new music, at the top of his game as an artist and producer, ... Who better than Kanye to inspire and educate the next generation of student talent.

Our bar is they've got to be able to teach these kids something. We've got to make sure they're going to be imparting some kind of wisdom.

The ANC will obviously be the biggest winner in this situation ... what this does is it plays havoc with the smaller parties.

We're all a big fan of hers. We're looking for icons.

To make it more meaningful, you really have to have the right class. What makes this work is the setting of the right person in the right class.

We work with them to find out what they want to do, and we work very closely with the college in finding them a class to teach. With Snoop, we knew he was a huge fan of the Trojans. Had he come and said he wanted to teach psychoanalytic theory, that would have been a problem.

We spend less time on speeches and details of the awards. Instead, we celebrate what college kids love more -- the music and the artists.

It's only just begun, in terms of the kinds of great stuff we're going to be seeing coming out of colleges. There's no better way to beef up your resume than to actually be doing your dream job in college and getting real-world experience for it.

No, that's not one of the topics were looking at.

I'm not sure this does terribly much except discredit the politicians in the eyes of the voting public. It has created a great deal of public fuss, but at the end of the day not much has really changed.

College students are prophesying the future of music today. With our first ever live Woodie Awards event, the music they live their lives to takes centre stage, and the rest of the world gets to see what's about to break big.