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Although this crisis in some ways started in the United States, it is a global crisis. We bear a substantial share of the responsibility for what has happened, but factors that made the crisis so acute and so difficult to contain lie in a broader set of global forces that built up in the years before the start of our current troubles. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#although #bear #before #broader #built

It is very important for people to understand that the United States of America and no country around the world can devalue its way to prosperity, to be competitive. It is not a viable, feasible strategy, and we will not engage in it. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#around #competitive #country #devalue #engage

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman. ↗

— David Lloyd George

#him #person #politician #politics #statesman

Further, by acting decisively in Iraq, the United States has sent very strong signals to other nations that have been or could be terrorist sympathizers. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#been #could #decisively #further #iraq

The Hussein regime's support for terrorism, within and outside of its borders, its appetite for the world's most dangerous weapons, and its openly declared hostility to the United States were a combination that was a gathering and growing danger to our country. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#borders #combination #country #danger #dangerous

But definitely, when a decision is taken, or when you are trying to oppose a decision, you are in a weaker position than the member states, because they know more about the situation than you. We gave information, but they never gave us any information. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#any #because #decision #definitely #gave

The real problem was not the troops; the real problem was that only the United States had the infrastructure to do the transport of troops with big planes, and then who will pay? ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#had #infrastructure #only #pay #planes

I can tell you that when I travel the state, when I talk to people, they are really struggling, in a very real way. They're losing their jobs, they're losing their homes, they're dealing with financial challenges. ↗

— Alexi Giannoulias

#dealing #financial #homes #i #i can

Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind. ↗

— George Gilder

#less #mind #poverty #real #state

Well, more than me saying to the rest of the country music industry there is not enough traditional country music - that is not necessarily the statement in truth. I think more so that I, me, missed it more than anything else. ↗

— Vince Gill

#country #country music #else #enough #i