#rope

China is not only formidable, it is also aggressively building its own economic infrastructure. Just a few years from now, China will rival the U.S. and the European Union in global market power. It already has surpassed us in population. ↗

— Jo Ann Emerson

#already #also #building #china #economic

I have got an anthology album out. The American version has got the same mixes but the European version, I remixed them in the studio and added a couple of things that I have always wanted to add. ↗

— John Entwistle

#added #album #always #american #anthology

Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times. ↗

— Tim Finn

#me #pull #rope #these #through

I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries. ↗

— Joschka Fischer

#balance #balance of power #believe #centuries #century

We have an interest in excellent relations because we are neighbours as Europeans with Russia. We are allies with the United States in the NATO framework. ↗

— Joschka Fischer

#because #europeans #excellent #framework #interest

I am certain that the United States next year, under a new president - regardless whether it's Obama or McCain - will present an ambitious program promoting renewable energies and energy efficiency. Europe could quickly fall behind. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#ambitious #behind #certain #could #efficiency

We, the Social Democrats, are convinced that capitalism needs to be tamed a second time. The first time we achieved that in Germany for many decades with the social market economy. That is no longer enough. Now we need to do it in Europe and even globally. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#capitalism #convinced #decades #democrats #economy

History demonstrates that previous military drawdowns invited aggression by our enemies. After World War I, America drew down forces until the U.S. Army had fewer than 100,000 men in uniform. That weakness invited Nazi aggression in Europe and the imperial Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#aggression #america #army #attack #demonstrates

Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#dying #europe #gave #idea #marriage

A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship. ↗

— Martin Gardner

#any #continually #creation #god #hardly