Social technology gives leaders a vital new platform with which to connect their companies to the myriad stakeholders who have an interest in their well being.

So while you're an athlete and you have that platform what you want to be able to do is make it work for you as much as possible because there's going to be life after sports.

On the other side of that coin and far outweighing it is the fact that I've been able to use genre of Fantasy/Horror and express my opinion talk a little about society do a little bit of satire and that's been great man. A lot of people don't have that platform.

We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended.

Hip-hop reflects the truth and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information but it's also an escape.

Life science research can be done on multiple platforms. Since we have a very small number of people flying into space the more people you have the better.

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed scolded and beamed at the world.

I've realized the extraordinary power of sports to heal unite and inspire. I believe the Olympics will serve as the ultimate platform to provide positive changes and I hope to inspire all of Japan through my strong showing there.

The World Cup tournament overall and naturally the new stadiums at its heart are the ideal platform to portray Germany as a positive and exceptional location and above all of course as a highly capable economic location.

Our platform calls for a balanced deficit reduction plan where the wealthy pay their fair share. And when your country is in a costly war with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism.

I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.

I owed Lewis one thing at least. Once you had suffered the experience of presenting a case at one of his Monday morning conferences no other public appearance whether on radio TV or the lecture platform could hold any terrors for you.

We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.

We should be the pro-legal immigration party. A party that has a positive platform and agenda on how we can create a legal immigration system that works for immigrants and works for America.

I hope my music sets up the platform for me to be able to do lots of things - to have a cowboy-boot line maybe or do a perfume or makeup deal.

For President Obama 'home of the brave' are not just the last words of our national anthem but also a call to action. This is why the president's policies and our platform include incentives to train and hire our troops returning home. Not only because of our moral responsibility but because it makes for a stronger more secure American economy.

It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play collaborate and compete share knowledge and share work than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.