We have to dare to modernize to get room to maneuver for the priorities in the future.
President Obama has made maternal health one of the core priorities of U.S. international aid funding.
When I campaigned for governor, I was clear about where our priorities must lie: Opportunity for New Mexico students and long-overdue recognition of New Mexico educators and staff.
I thought I had a handle on my priorities before Elizabeth and I lost our oldest son to stillbirth.
When I appointed the Minister of the Environment to major cabinet status, the Planning and Priorities committee, the signals that that sent through Ottawa were major, because that's what the bureaucracy understands.
When you become a pa, you have different priorities now, and you're not living for yourself; you're living for someone else now.
To a certain extent, platforms are platitudes that you test when you get to govern. You have to run those priorities up against the opposition and decide what's most important.
Port Security is one of our weakest security links, and it must be one of our highest priorities.
My job is to make sure that as our customers' priorities change, as the environment changes, we shift that portfolio of products to meet them.
All the states are required, either by constitution or by statute, to have balanced budgets - they're not able to print money. So they have to focus on establishing priorities.
The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was a recurrent Puritan theme.
Facing your own mortality forces you to re-evaluate your priorities.
Turning 60 was not a happy time. I didn't think 'I'm falling apart,' but I did re-examine my priorities.
One of our six key strategic priorities was the reinforcement of all professional staffing and solutions business.
I keep a great organiser, I try to keep my priorities in the right place.
The space industry is developing and delivering benefits that tie into our immediate needs and priorities here on Earth-for example, medical and materials research, and satellite communications.
Making independent films is liberating. It eliminates self-censorship, which mainstream films are infected with due to commercial priorities.
In a way, I have simplified my life by setting priorities.
Our life is the sum total of all the decisions we make every day, and those decisions are determined by our priorities.
And yet, if we don't, first and foremost, act responsibly with the national tax dollars that we have, we can't properly address those regional priorities that we would like to.