“We should be proud of our country when we have done something to be proud of, when we have lived up to our own standards. But the flip side of genuine pride is being able to recognize when we have fallen short, and to hold ourselves to account.” ShouldCountryDoneAbleSidesPrideProudStandardsAccountsGenuineOur CountryFallenBe ProudFlip Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter
“Greece is a medium-sized country in Europe. Our debt accounts for only 2.5 percent of the total of all members of the euro zone.” CountryMembersPercentEuropeAccountsDebtMediumsZoneGreeceEuro Author:Evangelos Venizelos
“Roughly two billion people participate in the money economy, with less than half of those living in the wealthy countries of the developed world. These affluent 800 million, however, account for more than 75 percent of the world's energy and resource consumption, and also create the bulk of its industrial, toxic, and consumer waste.” PeopleWorldTwoCountryEnergyHalfMillionsEconomyWastePercentResourcesAccountsBillionsConsumersWealthyToxicConsumptionConsumerismOverconsumptionAffluent Author:Stuart L. Hart
“The IEA member countries will exercise flexibility in re-establishing their emergency stock levels through 2006, noting the need to take into account seasonal demand and the possibility of higher than expected refinery maintenance.” NeedsCountryLevelsPossibilityHigherExerciseDemandMembersAccountsExpectedFlexibilityEmergenciesMaintenanceRefinery Author:Claude Mandil
“This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.” MadeCountryWould BeAsksPromiseAccountsIsraelTerrorismRidiculousFulfillmentCleansingZionistLegitimacyZionism Author:Golda Meir
“If your Income Taxes go to help out the less fortunate, there could be no legitimate kick against it in the world. This is becoming the richest, and the poorest Country in the world. Why? Why, on account of an unequal distribution of the money.” IfsWorldCountryHelpingBecomingTaxesAccountsIncomeFortunateKicksDistributionPoorestIncome TaxLess Fortunate Book:Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Hoover Years, 1929-1931 Source: Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Hoover Years, 1929-1931
“Accounts of outrages committed by mobs form the every-day news of the times. They have pervaded the country from New England to Louisiana, they are neither peculiar to the eternal snows of the former nor the burning suns of the latter; they are not the creature of climate, neither are they confined to the slaveholding or the non-slaveholding States. Alike they spring up among the pleasure-hunting masters of Southern slaves, and the order-loving citizens of the land of steady habits. Whatever then their cause may be, it is common to the whole country.” MayCountryStatesWholeFormOrderCausesPleasureCommonSunLandMastersHabitCitizensCreaturesEternalNewsSpringAccountsEnglandSlaveClimateCommittedSnowFormerBurningLatterSouthernPeculiarSteadyHuntingConfinedOutrageLouisianaNew England Book:Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches Source: Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches
“USA have got a comprehensive strategy to not only chase down the Al Qaida, wherever it exists - but to make sure that countries that harbor terrorists are held to account.” CountryAccountsStrategyTerroristUsaAlsHarborsComprehensive Author:George W. Bush
“Mitt Romney will travel to London where he will attend the Olympics opening ceremony. Of course it's going ot be weird when they're announcing all the countries, and he's like 'Got a bank account there, got one there, two bank accounts there.'” TwoCountryFunnyCoursesAccountsLondonOpeningOlympicsCeremonyRomneyBank AccountsAnnouncingLondon OlympicsOpening Ceremony Author:Jimmy Fallon