“For them (the peoples of the Soviet Union) We cherish the warmest paternal affection. We are well aware that not a few of them groan beneath the yoke imposed on them by men who in very large part are strangers to the real interests of the country. We recognize that many others were deceived by fallacious hopes. We blame only the system with its authors and abettors who considered Russia the best field for experimenting with a plan elaborated years ago, and who from there continue to spread it from one of the world to the other.” MenWorldYearsWellsRealCountryInterestPlansFieldsYears AgoBlameUnionsAffectionJewStrangerSpreadRussiaCherishSovietSoviet UnionDeceivedYoke Author:Pope Pius XI
“In 2005, I founded the Democratic Pacific Union, an international organization of 28 democratic countries to promote democracy, peace and prosperity in the Pacific region.” CountryDemocracyOrganizationUnionsDemocraticInternationalProsperityRegionsPacificDemocratic Country Author:Annette Lu
“First of all, Greece won't go down. We're talking about a country that is capable of making change. Europe will not allow the destabilization of the 27-country euro zone. But if there were no action, then markets would start becoming jittery about other countries - and not only Spain and Portugal, but other countries in the European Union.” IfsFirstsCountryActionTalkingBecomingCapableEuropeUnionsZoneOther CountriesSpainGreeceMaking ChangesEuropean UnionEuroPortugal Author:George Papandreou
“I love that we are one of the least unionized states in the country...We don't have unions in South Carolina because we don't need unions in South Carolina...And we'll make the unions understand full well that they are not needed, not wanted, and not welcome.” NeedsWellsCountryStatesWantedValuesNeededUnionsSouthConservativeWelcomeCarolinaSouth CarolinaConservative Values Author:Nikki Haley
“The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union. Every one of those 15 new states faced a profound historical, economic, financial, social and political challenge.” EndsCountryStatesPoliticalSocialChallengesEconomicDramaUnionsHistoricalProfoundFinancialRussiaRuinsSovietSoviet Union Author:Jeffrey Sachs
“So that’s what we want is a secure and sovereign nation and, you know, I don’t know that all of you are Latino. Some of you look a little more Asian to me. I don’t know that. What we know, what we know about ourselves is that we are a melting pot in this country. My grandchildren are evidence of that. I’m evidence of that. I’ve been called the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly.” KnowsWantFirstsLooksLittlesCountryStatesWholeNationsRoomsStudentsEvidenceUnionsNotesSecureTeenagerPotSovereignGrandchildrenAsianLatinoAssemblyMeltingLegislatorsHispanicMy GrandchildrenMelting PotNevada Author:Sharron Angle
“After the fall of the Soviet Union, if you start the clock, then 47 journalists, reporters, cameramen, photographers have been killed in Russia since the fall of communism. That makes it the third most deadly country on Earth to practice journalism. That's not a record to be proud of.” IfsHas BeensCountryEarthFallPracticeRecordsProudThirdsUnionsPhotographerRussiaJournalismCommunismJournalistClockSovietReportersBe ProudSoviet UnionCameraman Author:Daniel Silva
“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
“There are courageous and honest men enough in both sections to fight. There is no question of courage involved. The people of both sections of this Union have illustrated their courage on too many battlefields to be questioned. They have shown their fighting qualities shoulder to shoulder whenever their country has called upon them; but that they may never come in contact with each other in fratricidal war, should be the ardent wish of every true man and honest patriot.” PeopleMenShouldMayWarCountryEnoughFightingWishQualityHonestInvolvedUnionsShouldersContactCourageousPatriotSectionsBattlefieldsHonest ManArdentVery TrueTrue Man Author:Robert Toombs
“I am truly happy that I am able to travel from time to time to the USSR the country I love above all. I always have been, I am now and will always be a loyal friend of the Soviet Union.” Has BeensCountryAbleUnionsSovietLoyalSoviet UnionUssrTruly HappyLoyal Friend Author:Paul Robeson
“We are, if territory and population be looked at together, one of the great countries of the world - a monster country, one might say, along with others such as China, India, the recent Soviet Union, and Brazil. And there is a real question as to whether "bigness" in a body politic is not an evil in itself, quite aside from the policies pursued in its name.” IfsWorldRealCountryBodyMightTogetherEvilNamesPolicyIndiaUnionsPopulationChinaMonstersTerritorySovietSoviet UnionPursuedBrazilGreat CountryReal QuestionsCountries Of The World Author:George F. Kennan
“The Soviet Union's propaganda clearly wishes to use public opinion in this country to get the West to reduce its own arms while doing nothing themselves. In this way they would gain nuclear superiority. This is simply not on.” WayCountryUseWishOpinionArmsGainsUnionsWestNuclearPropagandaSovietSuperioritySoviet UnionPublic OpinionDoing Nothing Author:James Callaghan
“Basically, Herman van Rompuy wants the European Union to become a debt union, which may be acceptable to some of the southern countries who are effectively bust. To the northern countries, it is not.” WantMayCountryUnionsDebtSouthernAcceptableVansEuropean Union Author:Nigel Farage
“The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.” CountryGovernmentUnionsCorruptionEmployeeTelling The TruthGovernment Employees Author:Newt Gingrich
“People must learn more and more that the strength of this country is the democratic power of the trade union movement.” PeopleCountryMovementTradeUnionsDemocraticTrade Unions Author:Michael Foot
“The Soviet Union has long been proposing to outlaw chemical weapons, to remove them from the arsenals of states. We are prepared for resolution of this problem either on a global basis or piece by piece. As one of the first steps the USSR and the other socialist countries proposed in January 1984 that agreement be reached on ridding Europe of all types of chemical weapons.” FirstsLongCountryStatesProblemStepsPiecesTypeWeaponsEuropeBasesUnionsPreparedRemoveAgreementResolutionChemicalsSovietFirst StepsSocialistSoviet UnionJanuaryArsenalOutlawUssrChemical WeaponsSocialist Countries Author:Konstantin Chernenko
“Virtually every war fought since the Act of Union had gone badly at some stage, but before 1783 none had ended in defeat. Nor would any major war in which Britain was involved after this date end in defeat. Those who are curious about this country's peculiar social and political stability probably need look no further than this for essential cause.” NeedsLooksWarEndsCountryPoliticalSocialCausesGoneStageInvolvedEssentialsMajorsUnionsDefeatCuriousBritainStabilityPeculiarBritish History Author:Linda Colley
“It is always a joy to meet an American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believes that the folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes.” WorldYearsBelieveChildrenBookCountryJoyLanguageStarsGoneCitizensOur ChildrenUnionsWideMinistersFollyFlagsMonarchsStripes Book:Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Source: Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
“One of the proven ways of getting workers more involved with their jobs is by dovetailing employee profit-sharing and stock ownership plans with greater responsibility sharing... Trade unions in this country should... consider these arrangements much more carefully than they have up to now... Expanded employee profit participation and stock ownership would provide workers with a greater measure of economic and social independence, thus stimulating increased productivity.” WayShouldCountryWisdomJobsPoliticsSocialResponsibilityEconomyGreaterPlansEconomicInvolvedIndependenceTradeUnionsWorkersProfitProductivityLiberalismEmployeeOwnershipArrangementsProvenParticipationTrade UnionsProfit Sharing Author:Jacob K. Javits
“Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved.” CountryFightingLiteratureDemocracyConsequenceUnionsSavedOur CountryConceptionFollowersNationalityIndividualistic Book:The Promise of American Life Source: The Promise of American Life