Today, 65 percent of America's population live in metropolitan areas - and 95 percent of all the transit miles traveled are traveled there. Metropolitan regions are the engines of our economy.
‐‐ Anthony Foxx
Today a celebrity sex video isn't a stigma that requires penance and smarm removal; it's a branding device, a platform enhancer, a show reel.
‐‐ James Wolcott
Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.
‐‐ Bill Pascrell
Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole.
‐‐ Alfred Rosenberg
Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.
‐‐ Ninon de L'Enclos
Today a picture has value if it makes a lot of money. Myself, I declare I want to make a picture to lose money. Really! I want to lose money.
‐‐ Alejandro Jodorowsky
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
‐‐ Margaret Fuller
Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.
‐‐ Tony Visconti
Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers.
‐‐ Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.
‐‐ John Charles Polanyi
Today, all patients accepted for treatment at St. Jude's are treated without regard for the family's ability to pay. Everything beyond what is covered by insurance is taken care of, and for those without insurance, all of the medical costs are absorbed by the hospital.
‐‐ Marlo Thomas
Today, all physicists know from studying Einstein and Bohr that sometimes an idea which looks completely paradoxical at first, if analyzed to completion in all detail and in experimental situations, may, in fact, not be paradoxical.
‐‐ Richard P. Feynman
Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young.
‐‐ Helen Fisher
Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.
‐‐ Christopher Lasch
Today, among little girls especially, princesses and the romanticised ideal they represent - finding the man of your dreams - have a limited shelf life.
‐‐ John Lasseter
Today and always, there will be an obligation to pass on to the new generation the tradition of liberal scholarship - scientific or in the humanities - and to bring the understanding of things and human actions to everyone.
‐‐ Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Today, and I'm very strongly against tax increases.
‐‐ Donald Trump
Today, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country.
‐‐ Jane D. Hull
Today as an entrepreneur you have more options.
‐‐ Niklas Zennstrom
Today, as an independent, an entrepreneur, and a former mayor, I believe we need a president who is a problem solver, not a bomb thrower. Someone who can bring members of Congress together to get things done. And I know Hillary Clinton can do that because I saw it firsthand.
‐‐ Michael Bloomberg
Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.
‐‐ Natalia Ginzburg
Today, as we look back on the history of our nation and take note of how far we have come as a people, we are reminded that we owe a great debt to those who fought valiantly for the freedoms that we easily take for granted.
‐‐ Sam Brownback
Today, at 35, I can throw a small football close to 80 yards - and straighter than I can hit a golf ball.
‐‐ Jimmy Walker
Today, barely 5 percent of all containers coming into the United States through our ports are scanned.
‐‐ Alcee Hastings
Today baseball is currently enjoying a run of more than 14 years without interruption, a record that would have been inconceivable in the 1990s.
‐‐ David Cone
Today, because of President Obama's courage, kids can stay on their parent's plan until they are 26. Insurers cannot kick you off your policy because you have hit your limit. They will not be able to deny you because you have a pre-existing condition.
‐‐ Rahm Emanuel
Today begins a new saga in my life which I expect to strengthen me and allow me time for reflection... I plan to write music while in prison, read and pray regularly and will come out a stronger, more confident woman.
‐‐ Lil' Kim
Today, being the biggest developing countries in the world, China and India are both committed to developing their economy and raising their people's living standards.
‐‐ Li Peng
Today, bilateral relations with Britain are excellent, with cooperation in many areas and both countries continuing to work on strengthening these ties.
‐‐ Hassanal Bolkiah
Today, blood work and science are able to provide more of a movie of your health, identifying trends before they become an issue.
‐‐ Elizabeth Holmes
Today brands are everything, and all kinds of products and services - from accounting firms to sneaker makers to restaurants - are figuring out how to transcend the narrow boundaries of their categories and become a brand surrounded by a Tommy Hilfiger-like buzz.
‐‐ Tom Peters
Today, certain people file for bankruptcy, businesses and individuals, and it no longer has the stigma it once had. Now it's almost considered wise, a way to regroup and come back again.
‐‐ David Dinkins
Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.
‐‐ Pink
Today, children are watching more and more television, and are bombarded over and over with images and content that have the potential to dramatically influence their behavior.
‐‐ Tim Murphy
Today, Church policy in Ireland is to report allegations of abuse to the civil authorities. It recognises the Gardai and H.S.E. as those with responsibility for investigating such allegations and that any Church investigation should not take place until the investigation by the civil authorities has been completed.
‐‐ Sean Brady
Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard.
‐‐ Scott McCloud
Today, companies have to radically revolutionize themselves every few years just to stay relevant. That's because technology and the Internet have transformed the business landscape forever. The fast-paced digital age has accelerated the need for companies to become agile.
‐‐ Nolan Bushnell
Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.
‐‐ James Dyson
Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.
‐‐ Yael Naim
Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.
‐‐ Lester B. Pearson
Today, corruption has won and justice has lost. I brought corruption cases in good faith involving powerful people, and the political and legal establishment blatantly covered up and retaliated by targeting my law license.
‐‐ Andrew Thomas
Today, credit rating agencies rate companies, countries and bonds.
‐‐ Mike Fitzpatrick
Today, currently, business owners can go out and find out if the person they are hiring is eligible to work here or if they are not. We need to think about how we are impacting workers.
‐‐ Gary Miller
Today, dancers have so much more information and are much more mobile. Kids are traveling everywhere to go to summer programs, funding themselves with Kickstarter - putting their dreams on the Internet and seeing if they will pan out.
‐‐ Carla Korbes
Today, Democrats not only have the White House; they have the Senate too. So we have to be realistic about what we can and cannot achieve, while at the same recognizing that realism should never be confused with capitulation.
‐‐ Mitch McConnell
Today, diabetes is now epidemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, the American Diabetes Association and other national healthcare leaders.
‐‐ Tim Holden
Today different ethnic groups and different nations come together due to common sense.
‐‐ Dalai Lama
Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.
‐‐ Bobby Scott
Today, energy prices are at historic highs. Some analysts estimate that energy price shocks this year could cost American consumers more than $40 billion. Speaking very frankly, we cannot afford this kind of expense.
‐‐ Jeff Bingaman