“Bernie Sanders did not wake up last night with this great idea that we should guarantee health care to all people as a right. Actually, it exists in every other major country on earth. You don't know that, because the media has forgotten to tell you that. But it does exist. In Denmark, because of union negotiations, the minimum wage is about $20 an hour. In Germany, you go to college tuition-free. In Finland, they actually pay you to go to college. Now, you don't know that in America because CBS forgot to tell you. But that is the reality.” PeopleKnowsShouldDoeIdeasCountryRealityCareEarthLastsAmericaNightHoursPayMediaCollegeMajorsWake UpUnionsForgottenHealth CareGermanyGuaranteesMinimumNegotiationLast NightGreat IdeaMinimum WageDenmarkTuitionFinlandCollege Tuition Author:Bernie Sanders
“The truth is that political consciousness in this country is pretty low... To the degree that we can help educate and organize people around the most important issues facing their lives and show that there is support for fundamental changes in the way we do business in the United States of America in terms of income inequality, in terms of low wages, in terms of disastrous trade policies, in terms of being the only major country not to have a national healthcare program - that's success.” PeopleWayImportantCountryStatesHelpingShowsAmericaPoliticalTermUnitedConsciousnessUnited StatesSupportIssuesPolicyTruth IsDegreesMajorsLowsProgramFundamentalsTradeIncomeInequalityEducateHealthcareOrganizeUnited States Of AmericaWagesImportant IssuesIncome Inequality Author:Bernie Sanders
“Most of our competitor nations around the world have a national education system and America is the only major nation in the world that operates off of local school boards. They receive very little direction from state boards of education or from the nation. So local school boards direct basically what happens and too often they're not willing to track or to do the supervision of the education system that will make it world competitive.” WorldLittlesStatesHappensSchoolAmericaNationsWillingMajorsDirectTrackLocalsAround The WorldBoardsCompetitorsEducation SystemSupervisionSchool BoardBoard Of Education Author:John Glenn
“America has about three times as many abortions as they have in Norway, or Sweden, or Nordic countries, and they don't have any laws at all about abortion, but they care for women and infant children, which is a major cause for abortion.” ChildrenCountryCareAmericaLawThreeCausesMajorsAbortionInfantThree TimesSwedenNorwayNordic Author:Jimmy Carter
“I'm sure there are people who just assume we can't have hungry people in America because so many people are obese, but once you start to understand that a major cause of obesity is inadequate nutrition, it really changes that conversation.” PeopleAmericaCausesConversationMajorsAssumingHungryNutritionInadequateObesityObese Author:Lori Silverbush
“I am always a little skeptical on the water thing because I have been hearing that for 30 years, but one year it's going to be true. With the rising populations, Yemen could be the first country in the world, or Sana'a the first major city in the world, to run out of water, that's from Yemeni hydrological engineers and the United Nations. Sooner or later, all of these people, from 7 to 9 billion, all of them want to live like America, will be consuming so much more water that some of the societies will hit a wall without more sustainable environmental practices.” PeopleWorldWantYearsFirstsLittlesHas BeensCountryRunningAmericaNationsWaterUnitedCitiesPracticeWallMajorsEnvironmentalPopulationHearingBillionsBeing TrueRisingEngineersSooner Or LaterUnited NationsSkepticalConsumingCities In The WorldYemenSana Author:Thomas Friedman
“From the Million Man March to this day, the crime and murder rates have significantly decreased in the major cities of America, according to police reports. I believe that the Million Man March was a significant part of the reason for the decrease.” MenBelieveReasonAmericaI BelieveCitiesMillionsCrimeMajorsMurderPoliceRateSignificantReportsMarchThis DayDecrease Author:Louis Farrakhan
“It's kind of depressing when you hear the anti-science rhetoric in America, but I think that people are just afraid of change, and I think they're afraid of disruption, and I think they're afraid of the feeling that the rug is being pulled from underneath their feet. People are used to things changing maybe over many generations, but they're not used to seeing things change within their own lifetime. The problem is people are going to college and graduating, and realizing that their major is obsolete.” PeopleThinkingKindFeelingsProblemAmericaUsedRealizingSeeingGenerationsFeetCollegeMajorsLifetimeGraduatesDepressingRhetoricThings ChangeObsoleteDisruptionGoing To CollegeAfraid Of Change Author:Jason Silva
“We live in a country where a small number of people have incredible wealth and power. America has more income and wealth inequality than any other major country.” PeopleCountryAmericaWealthNumbersMajorsIncrediblesIncomeInequalitySmall NumbersWealth Inequality Author:Bernie Sanders
“Today, practically every country outside the West is undergoing an intellectual, political, and cultural churning, from China to Bolivia, Egypt to Indonesia, but we haven't really had, after the 1960s, a major oppositional culture in Western Europe and America. The Occupy movement was so startling and welcome partly because it was the first such eruption of mass protests in decades.” FirstsCountryTodayAmericaPoliticalCultureHavensMovementMajorsMassIntellectualEuropeWestWesternChinaDecadesWelcomeProtestEgypt1960sIndonesiaEruptionWestern EuropeBoliviaChurningOccupy MovementEurope And America Author:Pankaj Mishra
“The rivalry is huge between South Carolina and Clemson. It's major bragging rights; one of the most intense things I've been a part of.” AmericaSportsRightsHugeMajorsSouthUniversityIntenseUsaAmerican FootballCarolinaRivalryBraggingSouth CarolinaBragging RightsClemson Author:William Perry
“The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical for a people whose covert behavior tended to be Rabelaisian; its major religions were all Apollonian in varying degrees---its religious revivals were often hysterical in a fashion almost Dionysian.” PeopleCountryAmericaLawCultureReligiousKnownFashionPersonalityDegreesBehaviorMajorsSplitsRevivalHystericalCovertSplit Personality Author:Robert A. Heinlein