#united

Since the global economic crisis began, the change in global attitudes is clear to see - and I think it is pitiful. Barack Obama came to China and he is probably the only president of the United States never to mention the words 'human rights' in public. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#barack #barack obama #began #came #change

When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#cross #drama #ends #enter #eternity

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#government #great #group #helpless #little

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#big enough #country #enough #going #government

China, in the future, is going to have even more nuclear capability than it has had in the past. I don't believe that they have anything to fear from the United States, and I frankly don't believe they do fear the United States. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#believe #capability #china #even #fear

We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#because #both #democracy #did #go

There are many countries where you can only believe more or you can believe less. But in the United States we have this incredible smorgasbord, and it really interests me why people are drawn to one faith rather than another, especially to a system of belief that to an outsider seems absurd or dangerous. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#another #belief #believe #countries #dangerous

Yes, the United States is still the great meritocracy it's always been; but now, if you aren't brilliant or beautiful or both, there isn't much to do, because they can do it cheaper in Shanghai or Mumbai. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#beautiful #because #been #both #brilliant

The other are the strategic, so-called strategic stocks that the United States and the other Western industrial countries have, which could put in as much as four million barrels a day of oil into the market pretty quickly. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#could #countries #day #four #industrial

If we didn't have the rest of the world growing, the United States economy would be in much worse shape than it is today. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#growing #much #rest #shape #states