Pastoral Resources

The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing.

An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment.

Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the result of any given input, we can say that it will likely fall within one of several areas.

Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.

Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.

In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.

But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down.

Social Security is the very foundation of retirement security for millions of Americans.

As a former professional patient advocate, I believe prescription drugs are an essential part of high-quality medical treatment, and I supported enactment of the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act.

I remain committed to improving the government services to which Hudson Valley veterans are entitled.

My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations.

Our government makes the simple promise of a secure retirement to every American who works for many years and contributes to our retirement benefit system.

Women aren't as mere as they used to be.

Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.

Other women looked on me as a rival. And it pained me a great deal.

Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.

I don't like the idea that the government has so much of a say in things.

The organization and the environment are in concert.

Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women.

The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.