“It wasn't government that gave us nearly 50 million uninsured Americans and denials for pre-existing conditions. It wasn't government that gave us the yearly and lifetime caps on insurance coverage that have sent so many people into bankruptcy when they've faced a serious illness or accident... It wasn't government that gave us a system in which the gap between what we spend and what we get is so enormous. It was the free market.” PeopleGovernmentMillionsConditionsSeriousLifetimeIllnessAccidentsEnormousDenialGapsFree MarketCapsCoverageBankruptcySerious Illness Author:Paul Waldman
“Pennsylvania is one of the worst states in country when it comes to the condition of its infrastructure, and Philadelphia isn't any better off than Pittsburgh. Nine million people a day travel over 900 bridges classified as structurally deficient, some of them on a heavily traveled section of I-95.” PeopleCountryStatesMillionsWorstConditionsNineBridgesTraveledSectionsBetter OffInfrastructurePhiladelphiaPennsylvaniaPittsburgh Author:Steve Kroft
“One main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North--personal responsibility to other human beings for education and material welfare. (A Carnegie or a Ford, like a bureaucracy, molds the lives of millions without taking any responsibility.)” HumansHuman BeingsResponsibilityMillionsConditionsMaterialsSouthWelfareBureaucracyMoldPersonal ResponsibilityCarnegieAristocraticResponsibility To Others Book:The interior landscape: the literary criticism of Marshall McLuhan, 1943-1962 Source: The interior landscape: the literary criticism of Marshall McLuhan, 1943-1962
“American business men must learn human nature to the point of accepting as necessary the Rabble Rouser of the Right. . . . To get fast action somebody must stir millions to genuine anger over conditions which are adversely affecting their lives.” MenLifeHumansActionBusinessAcceptingMillionsLearningConditionsHuman NatureGenuineBusiness ManAmerican Business Author:Walter B. Pitkin
“Health economists have estimated that an injection of $250 million per year in Indigenous clinical care, and $50 million in preventative care, is required to provide services at the same level as for any other group with the health conditions of Indigenous Australians.” YearsCareLevelsMillionsGroupsConditionsEconomistIndigenousClinicalsInjection Author:Malcolm Fraser
“The truth is that the 143 million orphaned children and the 11 million who starve to death or die from preventable diseases and the 8.5 million who work as child slaves, prostitutes, or under other horrific conditions and the 2.3 million who live with HIV add up to 164.8 million needy children. And though at first glance that looks like a big number, 2.1 billion people on this earth proclaim to be Christians. The truth is that if only 8 percent of the Christians would care for one more child, there would not be any statistics left.” PeopleIfsFirstsLooksChildrenBigsCareEarthChristianDiesLeftNumbersMillionsConditionsTruth IsDiseasePercentAddSlaveBillionsStatisticsGlancesHivNeedyHorrificNumber 2 Author:Katie Davis
“Nobody in TV makes as much money as Robert Redford, who likes to make movies for several million dollars only on the condition that they contain some sort of social message. I cannot take very seriously a social message delivered by an actor who is paid nine million dollars to deliver it, and who charges you five dollars to see it.” ActorsSocialMillionsFiveConditionsTvsMessagesPaidDollarsNineLikesMillion Dollars Author:David Brinkley
“We succeeded to take our last steps to freedom in conditions of relative peace. We commit ourselves to the construction of a complete, just and lasting peace. We have triumphed in the effort to implant hope in the breasts of the millions of our people.” PeopleLastsEffortStepsMillionsConditionsCommitBreastsLastingRelativeConstructionImplants Author:Nelson Mandela
“I don't want to rip away the security that people finally have; 18 million people now have healthcare; preexisting conditions are no longer a bar.” PeopleWantMillionsConditionsSecurityBarsHealthcareRip Author:Hillary Clinton