“We are unique among advanced countries that we don't have universal health care. My hope was that I was able to get a hundred percent of people health care while I was president. We didn't quite achieve that, but we were able to get 20 million people health care who didn't have it before. And obviously some of the progress we made is now imperiled because there's still a significant debate taking place in the United States. For those 20 million people, their lives have been better.” PeopleCountryCarePresidentProgressAchieveUniqueDebateSignificantHealth CareUniversal Health Care Author:Barack Obama
“If you look at the works psychologists have done about individual reports of wellbeing, what happens is that if you're poor, you are not happy. But once you achieve a certain level of material satisfaction then income has very little correlation with people's reported states of happiness, things like climate matter more, things like the culture of the country in which you're raised matter more and so the things really, let's face it, like individual temperament matter more than these things.” CountryDoneCultureIndividualPoorAchieveTemperamentPsychologistWellbeingNot Happy Author:Dale Jamieson
“My passionate belief is in the role of movements to achieve political power to transform society. In this country, we talk about the Labour movement, of which the Labour Party is the wing of government for the interests of people we were set up to champion.” PeopleCountryPoliticalBeliefInterestPartyAchievePassionateChampionLabourPolitical Power Author:Owen Jones
“As the longest-running women's professional sports league in the country, the WNBA is a great product comprising 132 of the best female athletes in the world. And when you look beyond the players to owners, coaches, trainers, accountants, and chief operating officers - it's a wonderful example of what women can achieve in sports and in business.” WorldCountrySportsPlayerWonderfulAchieveFemaleAthleteCoachesLeague Author:Laurel J. Richie