“If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarization and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country.” IfsFeelsMayMadeCountryFactsPoliticalDifficultStruggleGoneHugeNormalDictatorshipGreeceBarbarismPolitical LifeUpheavalPolarization Author:George Papandreou
“Countries are effectively paid deference in direct and indirect ways if they're huge oil suppliers.” IfsWayCountryHugeDirectPaidOilIndirectDeferenceSuppliersDirect And Indirect Author:R. James Woolsey, Jr.
“All true artists in the world from all countries and all genres are influenced by Michael Jackson. There were music videos before Michael Jackson, and there were music videos after Michael Jackson. He brought such a huge change in the marketing and positioning of the music video.” WorldCountryArtistHugeMarketingVideoGenreTrue ArtistsHuge Changes Author:Sonu Nigam
“We hear from time to time about horrible human rights atrocities happening around the globe. Our government claims that it stands in favor of human rights, and our leaders are in the news demanding consequences for other countries that are abusing their populations. But there is a huge denial about how widespread and common these kinds of atrocities are in the United States, and that we are not nearly as different from other countries as we would like to believe we are.” BelieveHumansKindChildrenDifferentCountryStatesGovernmentUnitedCommonLeaderUnited StatesRightsHugeNewsHappeningsConsequenceClaimsHuman RightsPopulationFavorsHorribleDenialOther CountriesGlobesAtrocities Author:Lundy Bancroft
“5: Social security will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country! 1944: The G.I. Bill will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country! 1965: Medicare will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country! 1994: Health care will break small business, become a huge tax burden on our citizens, and bankrupt our country!” CountryCareSocialBreakSecurityHugeCitizensTaxesBillsBurdenLibertarianOur CountryHealth CareSocial SecuritySmall BusinessMedicareTax Burden Author:Joseph Conrad
“Vodka has a huge history in Russia, in that it's almost like a currency. It's the one thing that keeps the country in the dark ages and having a rollicking good time.” CountryAgeDarkOne ThingHugeRussiaGood TimesCurrencyDark AgesVodka Author:Gary Shteyngart
“Illiteracy is a huge problem in America. One in three adults in our country is illiterate.” CountryProblemAmericaThreeHugeAdultsOur CountryIlliterateIlliteracy Author:Roseanne Barr
“We've put huge resources into predicting tsunamis, hurricanes, and earthquakes. HIV/AIDS is like an earthquake that's lasted 30 years and touched every country on the planet. We have such incredible capacity to think about the future, it's time we used it to predict biological threats. Otherwise we'll be blindsided again and again.” ThinkingYearsCountryUsedPlanetsHugeResourcesCapacityThreatIncrediblesAidsTouchedAgain And AgainHurricanesHivEarthquakesPredictingTsunamiHiv Aids Author:Nathan Wolfe
“The terrible state of public education has paid huge dividends in ignorance. Huge. We now have a country that can be told blatant lies - easily checkable, blatant lies - and I'm not talking about the covert workings of the CIA. When we have a terrorist attack, on September 11, 2001 with 19 men - 15 of them are Saudis - and five minutes later the whole country thinks they're from Iraq - how can you have faith in the public? This is an easily checkable fact. The whole country is like the O.J. Simpson jurors.” ThinkingMenCountryStatesWholeFactsLyingTalkingFiveMinutesIgnoranceHugeTerriblePaidIraqTerroristHave FaithSeptemberFive MinutesCiaSeptember 11Not TalkingSaudisDividendsPublic EducationTerrorist AttacksCovertSeptember 11 2001JurorsBlatant Lies Author:Fran Lebowitz
“Brezhnev wasn't a minus for the history of our country, he was a huge plus, He laid a foundation for the country's economics and agriculture.” CountryHugeEconomicsFoundationOur CountryPlusAgricultureMinusBrezhnev Author:Leonid Brezhnev
“I believe there are huge numbers of people in this country who would be willing to have radical changes in our economic and social system in order to make it a more egalitarian society and do away with homelessness and hunger and clean up the environment. But these people have no voice. They have no way of expressing themselves. Elections give them no way of expressing themselves.” PeopleWayGivingBelieveCountryWould BeOrderI BelieveSocialVoiceNumbersEnvironmentEconomicWillingHugeElectionCleanHungerRadicalHomelessnessSocial SystemsRadical ChangeHuge Numbers Author:Howard Zinn
“Donald Trump brought up the issue of the birth certificate and it's getting huge buzz around the country. Even Chris Matthews has called for, you know, the birth certificate to be released. Why can't they just release the birth certificate, you know, and just move on?” KnowsCountryMovingIssuesHugeTrumpBirthReleaseBuzzMatthewCertificatesBirth CertificateJust Move On Author:Sean Hannity
“It's important to remember how fortunate we are as a country to have a currency and a bond market that is seen in every way as a source of strength and it's a huge responsibility for us to keep it that way.” WayImportantCountryRememberResponsibilityHugeSourceFortunateCurrencySource Of StrengthBond Market Author:Lawrence Summers
“When Tony Benn became a minister in the 1960s -- and I think this must be apocryphal -- he had a huge map of Britain hung upside down in his office, so the channel was at the top and Scotland was at the bottom and, apparently, he said, "This is how we need to look at this country, with the money and the power draining by force of gravity out of the south east." That was a great idea. I rather liked him for that. I don't know if it's actually true or not.” IfsThinkingKnowsNeedsLooksSaidIdeasCountryForceHugeOfficeSouthBottomEastMinistersBritainMapsGravityHungScotland1960sGreat IdeaUpside DownDraining Author:Neal Ascherson
“I see the insurance issue, the coverage of people for healthcare in our country as a huge moral issue. The richest country in the world to have 47 million people without health insurance is ridiculous.” PeopleWorldCountryMoralMillionsIssuesHugeRidiculousOur CountryHealthcareCoverageMoral Issues Author:Benjamin Carson
“Every city, every town, every region in USA has these weird things - the way they pronounce words, or what they call soda, or how people drive. It's a huge country, and there's all these strange pockets of behavioral patterns that social anthropologists could spend lifetimes researching and reporting on.” PeopleWayCountrySocialCitiesStrangeHugeTownsLifetimePatternsUsaPocketsRegionsWeird ThingsSodaAnthropologists Author:Michael Schur