“ASEM should build a new Silk Road to actively boost exchanges between these two civilizations in the new century so that countries in Asia and Europe will build on their respective civilizations and respect, learn from, complement and benefit each other.” ShouldTwoCountryCenturyCivilizationBenefitsEuropeAsiaSilkBoostComplementSilk Road Author:Jiang Zemin
“Joschka Fischer was a Green Party politician and Germany's foreign minister. We hired Mr. Fischer, as well as former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, as advisors because we, as an automaker, want to know, for example, how new emissions laws will develop in the United States, Europe and Asia. Fischer and Ms. Albright have diverse contacts worldwide. They can call our attention to trends early on, information from which we can benefit.” KnowsWantWellsStatesLawUnitedPartyAttentionUnited StatesInformationExamplePoliticianBenefitsEuropeGreenContactFormerMinistersGermanyTrendsDiverseSecretaryAsiaEmissionsAdvisorsFischerMadeleinesGreen Party Author:Norbert Reithofer
“In Europe and America alike, voters increasingly recognize that the benefits of the green revolution aren't worth the costs, particularly when the revolutionaries don't have a clue what they're doing.” AmericaRevolutionCostBenefitsEuropeGreenRevolutionaryVotersClueEurope And AmericaGreen Revolution Author:Jonah Goldberg
“Where people aren't as deeply reliant on fossil fuel as in the United States, it's far easier for them to imagine change on this scale. When you go to Europe, they're much more ready. They use half the amount of energy per capita that we use. They can imagine using less than that. They see the benefits. They're ready to go.” PeopleStatesUseEnergyUnitedHalfUnited StatesImagineReadyAmountEasierBenefitsEuropeScalesFuelFossilsFossil Fuel Author:Bill McKibben
“There cannot be a federal state of Europe without all citizens receiving the same benefits and rights.” StatesRightsCitizensBenefitsEuropeReceiving Author:Jaroslaw Kaczynski
“Marx's own illusion was to think that the working class movement, which he devoted his life to creating and strengthening, would both be socially and politically successful in the industrial nations of Western Europe, and that it would develop an entirely new way of human social life that would retain and even enhance the productive benefits of capitalism while overcoming the inhumanity and exploitation of capitalist social relations. Marx himself had no solutions to these problems. His object of study was capitalism itself.” ThinkingWayHumansProblemNationsSocialClassStudySuccessfulMovementObjectsBenefitsCreatingSolutionsIllusionCapitalismEuropeOvercomingRelationWesternProductiveCapitalistDevotedNew WaysExploitationWorking ClassSocial LifeStrengtheningInhumanityWestern EuropeSocial Relations Author:Allen W. Wood
“Anti-union propaganda has been considerably more successful here [ in the U.S.] than in Europe, even among working people who would benefit [from] unions.” PeopleHas BeensSuccessfulBenefitsEuropeUnionsPropaganda Author:Noam Chomsky
“Americans, [John Adams] wrote in 1780, believed that their "revolution is as much for the benefit of the generality of Mankind in Europe, as for their own."” MankindRevolutionBenefitsEuropeGeneralities Author:Gordon S. Wood
“Some people say Russia is running at 50 percent of its gross domestic product under that during the Communist period. In fact, none of the countries seems to have recovered the level that they had under communism, although the other countries in Eastern Europe are doing better than Russia and particularly the Czech Republic seems to be doing modestly well. East Germany I can't count because they have a rich uncle. You have economic benefits which have nothing to do with the workings of the system.” PeopleWellsI CanCountryFactsSeemsRunningLevelsRichEconomicProductsPeriodsBenefitsPercentEuropeEastRussiaCommunismGermanyRepublicCommunistOther CountriesUnclesEasternGrossEastern EuropeCzechEast GermanyGross Domestic ProductCzech Republic Author:Kenneth Arrow
“Hopefully, whether it's energy or child vaccines, the case of the many benefits helping countries so that they are stable, so these refugee problems that have been troubling for Europe - a little less so for the U.S. but, even so, a lot of controversy there - these things are why the future's going to be better than the past. People really do look to the United States, so we'll be there making the case.” PeopleLooksChildrenLittlesHas BeensCountryStatesHelpingProblemPastEnergyUnitedCasesUnited StatesBenefitsEuropeHopefullyStableRefugeeControversyVaccines Author:Bill Gates
“So, in Europe, they're cutting people's retirement and health benefits. And that's what we want to avoid from happening. They're raising taxes, entering a recession. That's the kind of economic program that President Obama has put in place.” PeopleWantKindPresidentCuttingEconomicTaxesBenefitsHappeningsEuropeProgramRetirementPresident ObamaEnteringRecessionsHealth BenefitsRaising Taxes Author:Paul Ryan
“Who are benefits promised to, overwhelmingly? Well, they're promised to older people. And if you have a society like Europe that is upside down where there are a lot more older people than younger people, you have economic calamity.” PeopleIfsWellsEconomicBenefitsEuropeCalamityUpside DownOlder People Author:Rick Santorum