#w

It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even more wrong to let him shape the landscape of the 21st century. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#21st century #allow #century #european #even

Now is the time for us to strike. We must strengthen our foothold in Asia, to ensure no nation overtakes us. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#ensure #foothold #must #nation #now

Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#even #idea #inconvenient #laws #repeal

The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our level of prosperity, it is time for them to catch up to our level of openness. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#accepted #basically #catch #caught #countries

There are children who are working in textile businesses in Asia who would be prostitutes on the streets if they did not have those jobs. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#businesses #children #did #jobs #streets

We are inheriting the worst financial system since the Depression. We're inheriting a situation - when people go back and study major banking crises a quarter century from now, the one that America developed in 2007 and 2008 is going to be one of those crises. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#back #banking #century #crises #depression

Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer's disease. ↗

— Pat Summitt

#challenges #combination #competition #disease #endure

I don't want to sit around the house. I want to be out there. I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me. ↗

— Pat Summitt

#go #house #i #me #out

It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#class #classes #crush #each #extreme

Joint-stock companies are yet in their infancy, and incorporated capital, instead of being a thing which can be overturned, is a thing which is becoming more and more indispensable. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#being #capital #companies #incorporated #indispensable