“We're working on accession to the WTO very actively. We still have several countries with which we need to conclude agreements and possibly that will happen next year.” NeedsYearsStillsCountryHappensNextAgreementNext Year Author:Nursultan Nazarbayev
“I've been watching politics for 35 or 40 years and you just never know. You can have one person win the Iowa caucus and then the whole picture changes ten minutes later. The same thing can happen again after New Hampshire. I have no idea what's going to happen with our country in the future.” KnowsYearsPersonsIdeasCountryWholeHappensWinningMinutesTenOur CountryNo IdeaIowaHampshireNew HampshireCaucusWhole Picture Author:Jackie Mason
“I happen to believe that we should move to a Medicare-for-all single-payer system, similar to what other countries around the world have.” WorldShouldBelieveCountryHappensMovingAround The WorldOther CountriesMedicare Author:Bernie Sanders
“What we found out with Katrina is that the country is still unable to deal with disaster. God forbid this happens in San Francisco.” StillsCountryHappensFoundDealsDisasterSan FranciscoKatrina Author:Warren Rudman
“I believe that it is my right and responsibility as an American to question our government when our government is wrong. I'm not one of the immature patriots who say my country right or wrong because my country is wrong now, and my country-the policies of my country are responsible for killing tens of thousands of innocent people, and I won't stand by and let that happen anymore.” PeopleBelieveCountryGovernmentHappensI BelieveResponsibilityPolicyResponsibleKillingInnocentPatriotImmature Author:Cindy Sheehan
“It would convert the Treasury of the United States into a manufactory of paper money. It makes the House of Representatives and the Senate, or the caucus of the party which happens to be in the majority, the absolute dictator of the financial and business affairs of this country. This scheme surpasses all the centralism and all the Caesarism that were ever charged upon the Republican party in the wildest days of the war or in the events growing out of the war.” WarCountryStatesHappensHouseUnitedPartyUnited StatesGrowingEventsRepublicanPaperAbsolutesMajorityAffairFinancialSenateRepresentativesDictatorSchemesRepublican PartyTreasuryHouse Of RepresentativesCaucusPaper Money Author:James A. Garfield
“The worst fear in the hearings was that you would get some evil interrogator: you could never know what might happen then. No one who lives in a free country will ever understand that kind of fear. What is most horrifying is the realization that you have no idea what can happen, that your life is totally in the hands of someone in the chair in front of you, someone might well be a demon.” KnowsWellsKindIdeasCountryHandsMightHappensLife IsEvilWorstFrontsHearingRealizationNo IdeaDemonChairsFree CountryWorst Fear Author:Diet Eman
“Since Khomeini's death, the popular appeal of an Islamic state - and of fundamentalism - has surely dimmed. Thinkers still debate and warriors kill, but no country seems prepared to emulate Iran. Perhaps revolutions happen only under majestic leaders, and no one like Khomeini has since appeared.” StillsCountryStatesSeemsHappensLeaderRevolutionPreparedDebateWarriorAppealsIslamicIranThinkerFundamentalismEmulateMajesticIslamic StateKhomeini Author:Ruhollah Khomeini
“China is now expected to surpass Japan as the 2nd richest country in the world. They could become the richest, but that's only if we pay them the money we owe them, and that's not going to happen.” IfsWorldCountryHappensPayChinaExpectedJapan Author:Jay Leno
“What would happen if capital succeeded in smashing the Republic of Soviets? There would set in an era of the blackest reaction in all the capitalist and colonial countries, the working class and the oppressed peoples would be seized by the throat, the positions of international communism would be lost.” IfsCountryHappensWould BeLostClassPositionInternationalReactionsCommunismErasRepublicThroatCapitalistOppressedWorking ClassSmashing Author:Joseph Stalin
“Hunger is a powerful persuader if it happens, and it's conceivable that it could happen. Country people have always known this.” PeopleIfsCountryHappensPowerfulKnownHunger Author:Wendell Berry
“It does so happen to be the case that if the freedom of the people of this country - and especially the rights of trade unionists - if those precious things in the past had been left to the good sense and fairmindedness of judges, we would have precious few freedoms in this country.” PeopleIfsDoeCountryHappensPastLeftCasesRightsJudgingTradeGood SensePrecious Things Author:Michael Foot
“Hyperinflation is not going to happen in this country, will never happen... The Fed putting so much money into the system is not going to create the risk of hyperinflation in the future. We have a strong independent Federal Reserve with a very strong mandate from the Congress, and they will do what's necessary to keep inflation low and stable over time.” CountryHappensStrongRiskLowsIndependentCongressFedsVery StrongStableReservesInflationMandatesFederal ReserveStrong ManStrong IndependentHyperinflation Author:Timothy Geithner
“A patriot is someone who cares what happens in their country.” CountryHappensCarePatriotWho Cares Author:Billy Bragg