“In less than a year, the Bush administration will strut out of office, leaving the country in roughly the same condition a toddler leaves a diaper.” YearsCountryPoliticalConditionsOfficeLeavingAdministrationDiapersToddlerLeaving The Country Author:Graydon Carter
“People of all countries have the right to choose their own social system and road to development in the light of their national conditions and characteristics.” PeopleCountryLightSocialConditionsDevelopmentCharacteristicsSocial Systems Author:Li Peng
“I believe you should tell the story of injustices, of inequalities, of bad conditions, so that the people as a whole in this country really face the problems that people who are pushed to the point of striking know all about, but others know practically nothing about.” PeopleKnowsShouldBelieveCountryWholeStoriesProblemFacesI BelieveConditionsLaborInjusticeInequality Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
“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
“Our president delivered his State of the Union message to Congress. That is one of the things his contract calls for -- to tell congress the condition of the country. This message, as I say, is to Congress. The rest of the people know the condition of the country, for they live in it, but Congress has no idea what is going on in America, so the president has to tell 'em.” PeopleKnowsIdeasCountryStatesAmericaPoliticsPresidentConditionsMessagesUnionsCongressNo IdeaEmsContracts Author:Will Rogers
“Land taxes is the thing. They got so high that there is no chance to make anything. Not only land but all property tax. You see in the old days, why the only thing they knew how to tax was land, or a house. Well, that condition went along for quite awhile, so even today the whole country tries to run its revenue on taxes on land. They never ask if the land makes anything. "It's land ain't it? Well tax it then."” IfsTryingWellsRealCountryWholeRunningTodayAsksHouseChanceLandConditionsTaxesPropertyRevenueOld DaysProperty Taxes Author:Will Rogers
“After long centuries, agrarian civilization is weakening. Is sufficient attention being devoted to the arrangement and improvement of the life of the country people, whose inferior and at times miserable economic situation provokes the flight to the unhappy crowded conditions of the city outskirts, where neither employment nor housing awaits them?” PeopleLongCountryCitiesAttentionSituationEconomicLandConditionsCenturyCivilizationImprovementUnhappyFlightEmploymentMiserableSufficientDevotedInferiorsProvokingArrangementsHousingCrowdedWeakening Author:Pope Paul VI
“I ask you all so earnestly to open girl's schools in every village and try to uplift them. If the Conditions of women are raised, then their children will, by their noble actions, glorify the name of the Country.” IfsTryingChildrenCountryActionSchoolGirlAsksNamesConditionsRaisedNobleUpliftingVillageGlorify Author:Swami Vivekananda
“The influence of woman is the same everywhere. Her condition influences the morals, manners, and character of the people of all countries. Where she is debased, society is debased; where she is morally pure and enlightened, society will be proportionately elevated.” PeopleCountryCharacterWomenMoralInfluenceConditionsPureMannersEnlightenedEnlightened Society Book:Character Source: Character
“I think awards in this country at this time are inappropriate to be received or given until the condition of the American Indian is drastically altered. If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.” IfsThinkingCountryGivenConditionsBrotherIndianAwardsAlteredKeepersInappropriateAmerican IndianExecutioners Author:Marlon Brando
“Dictators during the entire history of this planet have used similar techniques. By not letting the people of their country know what conditions existed outside their boundaries, they could get the people to fight to stay in those conditions. It was the old adage: Convince a slave that he's free , and he will fight to maintain his slavery .” PeopleKnowsCountryUsedFightingConditionsPlanetsSlaverySlaveTechniqueBoundariesConvinceDictatorAdages Book:The Jewels of Aptor Source: The Jewels of Aptor
“Nature herself in times of great poverty or bad climatic conditions, as well as poor harvest, intervenes to restrict the increase of population of certain countries or races; this, to be sure, by a method as wise as it is ruthless.” WellsCountryCertainPoorRacePovertyWiseConditionsIncreaseMethodPopulationHarvestRuthless Author:Thomas Malthus
“Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound ... my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks” BelieveCountrySoundCommonConditionsSonFundamentalsMy SonPurchasing Author:John D. Rockefeller
“We are free today substantially, but the day will come when our Republic will be an impossibility. It will be an impossibility because wealth will be concentrated in the hands of a few. A Republic cannot stand upon bayonets, and when the day comes when the wealth of the nation will be in the hands of a few, then we must rely upon the wisdom of the best elements in the country to readjust the laws of the nations to the changed conditions.” CountryWisdomHandsTodayLawPoliticsNationsWealthEconomyConditionsChangedElementsRelyLiberalismRepublicImpossibilityRely UponBayonetsConcentration Of Wealth Author:James Madison
“All revolutions more or less threaten the tenure of property: but most of those who live in democratic countries are possessed of property - not only are they possessed of property but they live in the condition of men who set the greatest store upon their property.” MenCountryWisdomPoliticsEconomyConditionsRevolutionPropertyDemocraticStoresLiberalismPossessedTenureDemocratic Country Book:Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II Source: Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II