“The United States as usual has a sizable deficit in the current account of its balance of payments, trade account and other current accounts, current account items.” StatesUnitedUnited StatesBalanceAccountsTradeCurrentsUsualItemsDeficitPayment Author:Robert C. Solomon
“If the Republicans get control back of the United States Senate, we will no longer have a check and balance on the White House, on the Republican Congress.” IfsStatesHouseWhiteUnitedUnited StatesBalanceRepublicanCongressChecksWhite HouseSenate Author:Patty Murray
“The Arts Council of England, in a 1998 report on 11 countries, found that Germany spent $85 per capita on the arts. The United States spent a shocking $6. And Canada, in its stubborn balance, spent $46... It's the Canadian way to be halfway between the Old and New worlds.” WorldWayArtCountryStatesFoundUnitedUnited StatesBalanceEnglandGermanyReportsCanadaMuseumsNew WorldStubbornShockingCouncilHalfwayOld And New Author:Michael Audain
“we have accumulated a wealth of historical experience which confirms our belief that the scales of American justice are out of balance.” BeliefWealthJusticeUnited StatesBalanceHistoricalScalesAmerican Justice Author:Angela Davis
“Iran has, by virtue of its growth and by virtue of the United States' mistakes in Iraq, tilted the balance of power in the Middle East. That is the case, but that doesn't necessarily mean it is a threat.” MeanStatesGrowthUnitedMistakeCasesUnited StatesVirtueMiddleBalanceThreatIraqEastIranMiddle EastBalance Of Power Author:Trita Parsi
“I recognize the United States is a superpower. It has various interests. It has to balance various things.” StatesInterestUnitedUnited StatesBalanceVariousSuperpower Author:Manmohan Singh
“The United States compared to a number of our competitors is the only government in the world with any kind of safeguards, any kind of checks and balances. They may in many respects need to be strengthened and people need to be reassured, and they need to have their protections embodied in law.” PeopleWorldNeedsKindMayStatesGovernmentLawUnitedNumbersUnited StatesBalanceProtectionChecksCompetitorsIn-laws Author:Hillary Clinton
“The thing that I focus on because I don't think it gets enough attention is that among the world's major powers, there is still a nuclear balance of terror - I'm talking about between the United States and Russia, the United States and China.” ThinkingWorldStillsStatesEnoughUnitedAttentionTalkingUnited StatesFocusBalanceMajorsTerrorChinaNuclearRussia Author:John Burroughs
“In the United States the White House has appointed two different independent panels who had full access to classified information for the last 10 years that master balance has been in place in the United States, and they found that despite intercepting the calls - everybody in the country, - it had never stopped a single terrorist attack. So the question is, why would these officials be pursuing these policies, if we know they don't work, if they don't stop terrorism?” IfsKnowsYearsHas BeensTwoDifferentCountryStatesLastsFoundHouseWhiteUnitedUnited StatesInformationPolicyMastersBalanceIndependentTerrorismAccessTerroristDespiteOfficialsWhite HouseTerrorist AttacksClassified Information Author:Edward Snowden
“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
“The budget idea, I may admit, is a sort of obsession with me. I believe in budgets. I want other people to believe in them. I have had a small one to run my own home; and besides that, I am the head of the organization that makes the greatest of all budgets, that of the United States Government. Do you wonder, then, that at times I dream of balance sheets and sinking funds?” PeopleWantBelieveMayIdeasStatesHomeDreamGovernmentRunningI BelieveMy OwnUnitedWonderUnited StatesBalanceOrganizationI Believe InObsessionBudgetsFundSheetsSinkingState GovernmentUnited States GovernmentBalance Sheets Author:Calvin Coolidge