Stephen Young Quotations

She's in bed with some very extreme people regarding firearms.

I am sure to rediscover the dynamism and optimism of the Taiwanese people, which has made this one of the most vibrant places in the Asia-Pacific region.

Over the last 75 years or so poetry seems to have gotten entrenched in academia. We want to bring it back into the mainstream.

We are doing experiments to see if it actually works in animals.

We are pleased and excited by the enthusiastic response to the Poetry on Stage series. These lively productions have helped further the Foundation's goal to bring the best poetry before an ever-wider audience.

You're building a system that has such a small chance of success against a simple target, and the enemy is likely to use a complex target -- why even start with the defense at all?

This is a true victory for a more rational nuclear policy. The proposed weapon, more than 70 times the size of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, would have caused unparalleled collateral damage.

This early work is very encouraging, and we need to move forward with more research in animal models, and we need to move ahead with planning human studies.

I'm very proud of him. I cried a little after he won his medal, and it was very emotional.

It ended up to be thus far, and hopefully will continue to be, a bloodless transition,

This has posed new security challenges for Taiwan which the United States, under the Taiwan Relations Act, remains committed to closely cooperating on with you.

It's great to see the World Rowing Championships returning to U.S. soil for the first time in 25 years. I am even more excited that it will be taking place in my home state of Florida. Regardless of where my rowing career takes me, I am sure to be in attendance in Sarasota in 2017.

A successful business maximizes the present value of future earnings. The first requirement, therefore, of business success is sustainable profits. One-time winnings, in business as in casinos, are disappointing. We expect more from our investments than that.

People live up to your expectations, not their potential.

We allow words to obscure the interpretation of the deeper meaning.

Questions are far more effective than defensive statements. They do not imply agreement, but they do convey interest and a desire to understand and facilitate an environment for peak performance, a central thread of effective leadership.... The next time someone accuses you of virtually anything, ask some questions. Resolving the situation may take more time, but the outcome will likely be more productive for both of you.

Ideals and morality are often spoken of as virtual antimatter to the behaviors allegedly needed to maximize profits.

Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety.

Micromessaging -- communicating with other human beings through visual, audible, sublingual means, no doubt predates our ability to speak. We actually read micromessages quite naturally without thinking about them. You might say human beings read each other's micromessages subconsciously, in the same way that one dog understands another dog is unfriendly simply because the dog's fur is standing on end. The dogs read each other perfectly. It's not all that different for people.

Capitalism is of this material world; it provides us with the means to live; it empowers us within the known world of sense and human reason. If it is to be measured by a strict standard of holiness, by religious normativity alone, then there can never be a moral capitalism.

We haven't figured out a way to get sensors that can discriminate between decoys and warheads. The technology doesn't exist yet.

I could not move them. They would not even agree to a modification, of the ruling (banning the Rand vaccine), which would at least allow the 100 (cancer) patients at Richmond Heights (Ohio) to complete their injections. The Justice Department was prepared to go along, but the FDA commissioner, Dr. James Goddard, was adamant, even belligerent. It's wrong of the government to snatch away this hope when there is no evidence against its use offered in court. It's damnably wrong.