Quotes About Opportunity

I've been making arts programmes for almost 50 years, and every day, I can't believe my luck.

If you look at the coverage of female sports and athletics across any of the broadcasters that participate in league rights and/or sports programming, women are underrepresented, and it's a chance and an opportunity for Lifetime to support that movement and the importance of athletics and competition for girls and women.

I would like to see additional funding for entrepreneurial development programs.

For laid-off workers, community colleges offer job-certification programs that teach new skills and professions.

I definitely think there needs to be more of a focus and movement on getting coding taught in schools. There's really only so much after-school programs like Black Girls Code can do to really drive that change. And those classes shouldn't only take place in high school. We should make sure that we teach kids about coding at an early age.

I think that affirmative action programs can be very important.

Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite.

Funding and maintaining programs from Head Start to Pell Grants must be a high priority.

Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.

We need to continue investing in the programs that put Americans back to work in communities like Clark County.

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don't want to be a colony in a nation.

The Ways and Means Committee for me has this opportunity to work with programs where I can take my parents' sense of community and make it work.

Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.

I think people are hungry for new ideas and leadership in the world of poverty alleviation. Most development programs are started and led by people with Ph.Ds in economics or policy. Samasource is part of a cadre of younger organizations headed by entrepreneurs from non-traditional backgrounds.

I tried a few grad school programs because I didn't know how to make it... Eventually, I was desperate for a job, and there was a new newspaper opening up in Washington, D.C., called 'The Hill.' Even though my interest in politics wasn't huge, they gave me a job as a copy editor.

When I discovered Special Olympics and saw how it integrates these athletes into programs that change the whole way they see themselves and how they perform, it blew my mind. I wanted to be involved.

Hispanics who get on government programs are doing only a little better than they were in the old country.

When I started Black Girls Code in 2011, there weren't any programs that had a foundation in communities of color to teach our kids about technology.

I grew up in youth programs in Chicago, so they are definitely close to my heart. It is all about helping kids and giving back to a sport that has given me so much.

Don't worry too much on pathways programs: good players find a way to get through to play for their country.

We need good reading programs, and we need equity in schools.

I think a lot of sporting organisations are really sitting up and taking notice, putting in some great programs and investing a lot into women's sports.

All the work I'm able to be a part of through Grizzlies Prep, Code Crew, our mentoring programs and with the Grizzlies Foundation, they all go hand in hand because the kids are our future.

In a way, it almost feels like your career starts again when you get to the States, because a lot of the programs that we do in Canada are not even shown here.