#nation

This nation is notorious for its ability to make or fake anything cheaply. 'Made-in-China' goods now fill homes around the world. But our giant country has a small problem. We can't manufacture the happiness of our people. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#anything #around #cheaply #country #fake

The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%. ↗

— Jack Welch

#brains #bring #challenges #combination #compared

Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana. ↗

— James Welch

#also #anyone #become #bit #could

Homes and buildings, many of which are old and drafty, eat up 40 percent of the energy America uses. Such inefficiencies perpetuate our reliance on foreign oil, imperiling our national security and increasing our contribution to climate change. ↗

— Peter Welch

#buildings #change #climate #climate change #contribution

I would like to tell our American, British and Spanish friends that the Iraqi crisis is not a problem between the United States and France, but between those who want to move forward in the logic of war and the international community. ↗

— Dominique de Villepin

#between #british #community #crisis #forward

Democrats have always historically referred to our families as working families, and I have sort of changed that moniker. I think what we have is a nation of worried families - families that are concerned about job security, families who thought their pensions were secure and now have questions. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#always #changed #concerned #democrats #families

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake? ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#clearly #does #dreams #eye #imagination

The only thing more intimidating than a huge international film star is your mother-in-law. ↗

— Benjamin Walker

#film star #huge #international #intimidating #more

It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#common #country #discrimination #economic #groups

The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#bearing #both #deny #international #men