“The greatest problem all around the world today, whether in America, Japan, China, Russia, India or anywhere else in the world, is that people are not in peace. People want peace.” PeopleWorldWantProblemTodayAmericaIndiaChinaRussiaAround The WorldJapanWorld Today Author:Prem Rawat
“I grew up all around the world, and when I settled in a suburb in America, I didn't have any idea what I was supposed to wear.” WorldIdeasAmericaGrewGrew UpAround The WorldSuburbs Author:Dylan Walsh
“We don't have the money in America to keep paying for the education of everybody else's children from around the world. We simply don't have the financial resources to do that.” WorldChildrenAmericaResourcesFinancialAround The WorldFinancial Resources Author:Mo Brooks
“Americans cannot escape a certain responsibility for what is done in our name around the world. In a democracy, even one as corrupted as ours, ultimate authority rests with the people. We empower the government with our votes, finance it with our taxes, bolster it with our silent acquiescence. If we are passive in the face of America's official actions overseas, we in effect endorse them.” PeopleIfsWorldDoneGovernmentActionAmericaFacesCertainNamesResponsibilityDemocracyEffectsTaxesAuthorityVoteUltimateSilentFinanceAround The WorldOfficialsEmpoweringPassiveAcquiescence Book:The Eagle's Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World Source: The Eagle's Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World
“No wonder nobody around the world is nervous about America anymore. No wonder we're not intimidating our adversaries and they're running around wild in the world, because they know we're not investing in our defense anymore. We need to make or military strong, not to wage war, but to avoid war and to bring peace and stability in the world.” KnowsWorldNeedsWarRunningAmericaStrongWonderMilitaryInvestingDefenseNervousAround The WorldStabilityAdversariesIntimidating Author:Chris Christie
“I've been talking about income inequality in America for twenty years, and when I was president, people didn't pay much attention to it, probably because wages were going up. But I don't think I've given a single solitary speech since I left office that I hadn't talked about it. It's a problem around the world and within the United States. So these people have put that on the agenda.” PeopleThinkingWorldYearsStatesProblemAmericaLeftGivenPresidentUnitedPayAttentionTalkingUnited StatesSpeechOfficeTwentiesIncomeInequalityAround The WorldAgendasSolitaryWagesIncome Inequality Author:William J. Clinton
“America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. The United States has been one of the greatest sources of progress that the world has ever known. We were born out of revolution against an empire. We were founded upon the ideal that all are created equal. And we have shed blood and struggled for centuries to give meaning to those words, within our borders and around the world. We are shaped by every culture. Drawn from every end of the Earth, and dedicated to a simple concept, E pluribus unum: Out of many, one.” WorldGivingHas BeensEndsSelfStatesEarthAmericaCultureBornSimpleUnitedKnownUnited StatesProgressBloodCenturySourceRevolutionEqualConceptsIdealsAround The WorldBordersEmpiresDedicatedShedStereotypeCrude Author:Barack Obama
“America washes its dirty linen in public. When scandals such as this one hit, they do sully America's image in the world. But what usually also gets broadcast around the world is the vivid reality that the United States forces accountability and punishes wrongdoing, even at the highest levels.” WorldStatesRealityAmericaForceLevelsUnitedUnited StatesHighestAround The WorldDirtyAccountabilityScandalVividWrongdoingLinen Author:Fareed Zakaria
“We know the candidate Barack Obama, what he was like - the anti-war government nig... America was a source for division around the world, that what we were doing was wrong.” KnowsWorldWarGovernmentAmericaSourceAround The WorldBarackCandidatesDivisionAnti War Author:Rick Santorum
“When we think about immigration, we have to understand there are folks all around the world who still see America as the land of promise. And they provide us energy, and they provide us innovation. And they start companies like Intel and Google, and we want to encourage that.” ThinkingWorldWantStillsAmericaEnergyCompanyLandPromiseInnovationFolksImmigrationAround The WorldGoogle Author:Barack Obama
“In the U.S and Europe over the last year we've been focused on the prices of gasoline at the pump. While many worry about filling their gas tanks, many others around the world are struggling to fill their stomachs. And it's getting more and more difficult every day.” WorldYearsLastsAmericaDifficultPovertyWorryStruggleFocusEuropeFocusedAround The WorldGasHardshipLast YearFillingTanksPumpsGasoline Author:Robert Zoellick
“It has become clear that America's civilian institutions of diplomacy and development have been chronically undermanned and underfunded for far too long - relative to what we spend on the military, and more important, relative to the responsibilities and challenges our nation has around the world.” WorldLongHas BeensImportantAmericaNationsChallengesResponsibilityClearMilitaryDevelopmentInstitutionsAround The WorldRelativeDiplomacyCivilians Author:Robert M. Gates
“So the Bush-Obama administration has taken a fiscal stance diametrically opposed to that of the patron saint of free enterprise. While escalating war in Afghanistan and maintaining over 850 military bases around the world, the administration has run up the national debt that Smith decried. By shifting the tax burden off property and off rent-seeking monopolies - above all, off the financial sector - this policy has raised America's cost of living and doing business, thereby undercutting its competitive power and running up larger and larger foreign debt.” WorldWarRunningAmericaTakenMilitaryPolicyCostTaxesBasesPropertyRaisedFinancialSaintSeekingBurdenDebtAround The WorldAdministrationEnterpriseAfghanistanMaintainingMonopolyShiftingStanceAnd OffFree EnterprisePatronNational DebtCost Of LivingEscalatingTax BurdenMilitary Bases Author:Michael Hudson
“Look at all of the great strengths of America: entrepreneurialship, work ethic, natural resources, a democracy, a transparency, a willingness to be critical. Around the world, they look at us, and they say, "Why are you criticizing yourself? Why are you people arguing during the political process to elect a president or somebody else?" That's the great strength of this country.” PeopleWorldLooksCountryAmericaPoliticalProcessPresidentNaturalDemocracyEthicsResourcesCriticalArguingAround The WorldWillingnessCriticizeWork EthicTransparencyNatural Resources Author:Michael Bloomberg
“Basically, there are two kinds of stereotypes out there in the world about America. There's America the Goliath - the big, powerful, bullying country that pushes its way around the world and gets its ways, pursues its own interests nakedly, irrespective of what others want. And the other stereotype is America, the land of opportunity, where everyone can go and do anything, be anything, make any dreams come true.” WorldWayWantKindTwoCountryDreamBigsAmericaOpportunityInterestPowerfulLandPursueAround The WorldBullyingStereotypeDreams Come TrueGoliathLand Of Opportunity Author:Shashi Tharoor
“[The Internet] ... is an amazing communications tool that's bringing the whole world together. I mean, you sit down to sign on to America Online in your hometown, and it's just staggering to think that at the same moment, halfway around the world, in China, someone you've never met is sitting at their computer, hearing the exact same busy signal that you're hearing.” ThinkingWorldMeanWholeMomentsTogetherAmericaCommunicationInternetMetsComputerSittingToolsBusyChinaHearingWhole WorldAround The WorldOnlineSignalsHalfwayHometownStaggering Book:Ranting Again Source: Ranting Again
“There is a proliferation of terrorism as a result of the war in Iraq. What America has created is a den for terrorists to breed in Iraq as a result of the war and to ship their ideologies and their fears and their capabilities around the world, not just in the Middle East, but in other continents.” WorldWarAmericaResultsMiddleIraqTerrorismEastTerroristShipsIdeologyAround The WorldCapabilityMiddle EastContinentsProliferationDens Author:David E. Bonior
“There's so much corruption in America; there's so much corruption around the world. It's all coming to the surface thanks to the Internet, and thanks to the younger people who are saying, 'We don't like corrupt people.'” PeopleWorldAmericaInternetCorruptionSurfaceThanksAround The World Author:Jon Anderson