“Everyone says Francois Mitterrand had huge charisma. But before he was president they used to call him badly dressed, old, archaic and say he knew nothing about the economy until the day he was elected. It's called universal suffrage. When you're elected, you become the person that embodies France.” PersonsUsedPresidentEconomyHugeUniversalFranceCharismaSuffrageUniversal Suffrage Author:Francois Hollande
“To each, therefore, must be given his own share of goods, and the distribution of created goods, which, as every discerning person knows, is laboring today under the gravest evils due to the huge disparity between the few exceedingly rich and the unnumbered propertyless, must be effectively called back to and brought into conformity with the norms of the common good, that is, social justice.” KnowsPersonsWisdomTodayEvilPoliticsGivenSocialJusticeCommonEconomyRichShareHugeSocial JusticeDuesLiberalismGoodsConformityNormDistributionCommon GoodDisparityDiscerning Book:On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno) Source: On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno)
“Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM.” WritingTechnologyEconomyInformationHugeAmountPhonesSpendingChecksMore MoneyCdsLaptopsDatabases Author:Jay Chiat
“The Chinese economy has huge potential and flexibility.” EconomyHugeChineseFlexibility Author:Li Keqiang
“I never considered myself an Americana artist, but I'm a huge fan of old-time music from the States, the recordings that were made in the '20s and '30s. Trying to chase down the exact stylistic trappings of that stuff always felt like a dead end. That spirit of directness and economy, but also the poetic pungency of the writing and almost ugly, or raw, performance - all that seemed like the real message. I've just tried to somehow stay true to that feeling.” WritingTryingMadeRealEndsStatesFeelingsSpiritArtistFeltStuffEconomyFansHugeMessagesPerformancesUglyPoeticStay TrueDead EndsOld TimeAmericanaOld Time Music Author:Will Sheff
“Right after 9/11 it looked as if the idea of a huge skyscraper might be considered obsolete. It came back, but I think that's more closely connected to the rise of Asian and Middle Eastern cities in the world economy (Dubai, Shanghai, Taipei, etc.) than anything else.” IfsThinkingWorldIdeasMightCitiesEconomyMiddleHugeConnectedEtcEasternAsianObsoleteSkyscraperWorld EconomyCities In The WorldShanghaiDubai Author:Paul Goldberger
“The U.S. couldn't play a military role in different areas like Iraq and Afghanistan without huge quantities of oil. So a shortage or disruption in oil would not only damage the U.S. economy; it would undercut American military supremacy.” DifferentPlayRolesEconomyMilitaryHugeAreasIraqOilDamageAfghanistanQuantityDisruptionShortageSupremacyAmerican MilitaryUndercut Author:Michael Klare