“The government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans' privacy. But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we're getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.” WayGivingProblemBigsGovernmentAmericaKnowingInformationBalanceSafeProgramWeightTerroristPrivacyTransparencySurveillanceBig Problems Author:Al Franken
“One of the most insidious consequences of the present burden of personal income tax is that it strips many middle class families of financial reserves & seems to lend support to campaigns for socialized medicine, socialized housing, socialized food, socialized every thing. The personal income tax has made the individual vastly more dependent on the State & more avid for state hand-outs. It has shifted the balance in America from an individual-centered to a State-centered economic & social system.” MadeStatesHandsSeemsAmericaIndividualSocialClassSupportEconomicMiddleBalanceTaxesConsequenceMedicineFinancialBurdenCampaignsIncomeDependentMiddle ClassReservesHousingIncome TaxInsidiousSocial SystemsAvidMiddle Class FamilySocialized Medicine Author:William Henry Chamberlin
“Always the path of American destiny has been into the unknown. Always there arose enough reserves of strength, balances of sanity, portions of wisdom to carry the nation through to a fresh start with ever-renewing vitality.” Has BeensEnoughAmericaNationsDestinyPathBalanceSanityPortionsReservesVitalityFresh Start Author:Carl Sandburg
“Traditional Judeo-Christian values literally hang in the balance in America. They can be 'forgotten' in a single generation if they are not taught to children and teenagers... It could happen here if we don't defend what we believe.” IfsBelieveChildrenHappensChristianAmericaValuesReligiousGenerationsTaughtBalanceForgottenTraditionalTeenagerChristian Values Author:James Dobson
“I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas, cultures, and systems of thought we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word freedom means than I see much evidence of in America. To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that in Europe we're probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.” ThinkingWantMeanIdeasSometimesSeemsAmericaCultureUnderstandingGrowing UpGrowingBalanceEvidenceEuropeClaimsNotionWhat You WantAwfulFrankContinentsSophisticatedCompetingCrowdedYour Freedom Author:Douglas Adams
“When people watch me on TV they see part of my life. I wanted to let them know the real me behind the scenes. The child who was a concert violinist from the age of six. The young woman who took on the challenge to compete in the Miss America pageant. The television journalist for twenty-five years. The mother of two who, just like most women, struggles to balance work and family.” PeopleKnowsYearsChildrenTwoRealAgeWantedAmericaYoungMotherChallengesBehindsWatchesStruggleFiveMissingTelevisionTvsBalanceSceneSixTwentiesJournalistFive YearsConcertsYoung WomenTwenty FiveBehind The ScenesWatch MePageantViolinistReal MeMiss America Author:Gretchen Carlson
“The enemies of liberty and our country should make no mistake: America remains engaged in the world by history and by choice, shaping a balance of power that favors freedom. We will defend our allies and our interests. We will show purpose without arrogance. We will meet aggression and bad faith with resolve and strength. And to all nations, we will speak for the values that gave our nation birth... an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm.” WorldShouldStillsCountryShowsAmericaPurposeValuesChoicesSpeakNationsInterestMistakeLibertyEnemyBirthBalanceAngelRemainsStormFavorsOur CountryEngagedArroganceResolveAlliesAggressionWhirlwindBalance Of Power Author:George W. Bush
“The American servicemen and women of the Guard and Reserve leave their jobs, their spouses and their children to wear the uniform that defends our country. This selfless commitment should be honored by businesses across Massachusetts as we work to ensure they are treated fairly while they balance their employment responsibilities and obligations to the armed services. No business should ever put the bottom line ahead of America's front line.” ShouldChildrenCountryJobsAmericaLinesResponsibilityFrontsBalanceMen And WomenCommitmentBottomObligationTreatedOur CountryEmploymentSelflessReservesUniformsSpouseHonoredBottom LineMassachusettsServicemenArmed Services Author:Mitt Romney
“Early on, America took one path and went down the advertising road, and in the UK they founded the BBC and developed a different kind of public broadcasting. There was a point where TV was so beholden to commercial interest that people - civil society - actually rose up and said, "This is ridiculous: we have our soap-selling soap operas, cigarette-sponsored news broadcast; we have our rigged quiz shows - let's put some checks and balances here."” PeopleKindSaidDifferentShowsAmericaInterestPathTvsBalanceNewsRoseRidiculousChecksSellingAdvertisingOperaDifferent KindsCigaretteSoapCivil SocietyBroadcastingSoap OperasRiggedQuizQuiz Show Author:Astra Taylor
“Those people who say that America is finite are some sense right. The environmental movement, for example, has a great wisdom to it: we need to protect, to preserve, to shelter as much as we need to develop. But I think this always has to be juxtaposed against the optimism of old, which is now represented in part by immigrants. I would like to see America achieve a kind of balance between optimism and tragedy, between possibility and skepticism.” PeopleThinkingNeedsKindAmericaAchieveExampleMovementPossibilityBalanceProtectOptimismTragedyEnvironmentalPreservesImmigrantsShelterSkepticismFiniteGreat Wisdom Author:Richard Rodriguez
“For most businesses, America is the most important asset on their balance sheet.” ImportantAmericaBalanceAssetsSheetsBalance Sheets Author:Hillary Clinton
“Remember what Teddy Roosevelt did. Yes, he took on what he saw as the excesses in the economy, but he also stood against the excesses in politics. He didn't want to unleash a lot of nationalist, populistic reaction. He wanted to try to figure out how to get back into that balance that has served America so well over our entire nationhood.” WantTryingWellsWantedAmericaRememberEconomySawsFiguresBalanceReactionsGet BackExcessTeddy Author:Hillary Clinton
“It's precisely because America is not a democracy that we have survived! It's precisely because majority rule does have checks and balances on it. It's precisely because this is a representative republic that we have survived.” DoeAmericaDemocracyBalanceMajorityChecksRepublicRepresentativesSurvivedMajority Rule Author:Rush Limbaugh
“We need to upgrade and modernize America`s infrastructure.Our budget is going to have to figure out how to balance those priorities and pay for it and our big goal is to leverage the private sector dollars as much as possible so that the public taxpayer isn`t paying for all of this.” NeedsBigsAmericaGoalPayFiguresBalanceDollarsPrioritiesBudgetsInfrastructureTaxpayersPrivate Sector Author:Paul Ryan
“We need to understand that we need to get the work-life balance better for both men and women - by men taking on more of those roles of homemaking and child rearing - it's an important area that we still haven't got right. I do worry; it's not just in the United States, it's also in parts of Latin America.” MenNeedsChildrenStillsImportantStatesAmericaUnitedRolesWorryUnited StatesHavensBalanceMen And WomenAreasLatinLatin AmericaWork Life BalanceLife BalanceChild RearingHomemaking Author:Mary Robinson
“It's a new phenomenon in America that states can now sue the national government and become a kind of check and balance on the excesses of the federal government.” KindStatesGovernmentAmericaBalanceChecksPhenomenonExcessFederal Government Author:Alan Dershowitz
“Trade has suddenly become massively unpopular. I think that's massively unjust. I think free trade has been wonderful for America on balance.” ThinkingHas BeensAmericaWonderfulBalanceTradeUnjustFree Trade Author:David Brooks
“The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth.” EarthAmericaLeaderBalanceBuiltUltimateChecksPrizeInefficiency Author:Nathan Myhrvold
“What is the essence of America? The essence of America is finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."” AmericaPerfectBalanceFindingsEssencePatrioticDelicatePatriotMaintaining4th Of JulyJulyAmerican PatrioticGreat PatrioticAmerican PatriotismAmerican PatriotIndependence Day PatrioticPatriotism In AmericaUsa PatrioticJuly 4Usa PatriotismPatriotism And FreedomInspiring Patriotic Author:Marilyn vos Savant
“I would say for every successful black woman in America or in the world, really, it's difficult to be the head of the household, financially. It is for the man in your life. It can be very hard for them. And there's a delicate balance. I'm not quite sure I know what that balance is just yet.” KnowsMenWorldHardAmericaDifficultBlackSuccessfulBalanceDelicateHouseholdBlack Women Author:Jill Scott
“All America loses when any person is denied or forced out of a job because of sexual orientation. Being gay, the last time I thought about it, seemed to have nothing to do with the ability to read a balance book, fix a broken bone, or change a spark plug.” PersonsBookJobsLastsAmericaLosesAbilityBrokenBalanceGayBonesSparksDeniedLast TimeOrientationPlugsBeing GayBroken Bone Author:William J. Clinton
“I came to America because of the great, great freedom which I heard existed in this country. I made a mistake in selecting America as a land of freedom, a mistake I cannot repair in the balance of my lifetime.” MadeCountryAmericaMistakeHeardLandBalanceLifetimeLibertarianMade A MistakeConspiracy TheoryI Made A MistakeGreat Freedom Author:Albert Einstein