“I should say that being independent in the modern model means independent in a very interdependent world. An independent Scotland is not apart from the rest of the United Kingdom.” WorldShouldMeanUnitedModernModelsIndependentKingdomsScotlandUnited Kingdom Author:Nicola Sturgeon
“The United States has an isolationist and insular culture, combined with a global and interventionist posture. This highly dangerous and febrile mixture, which greatly facilitates the task of the fear-mongers and chauvinists, needs a very exact and nuanced diagnosis. I don't think that analogies from the totalitarian model, however suggestive, are sufficient.” ThinkingNeedsStatesCultureUnitedUnited StatesDangerousModelsTasksSufficientMixturesDiagnosisPostureAnalogiesFacilitate Book:For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports Source: For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports
“We [the United States] are not every other country. And models that work elsewhere may not have the same impact here.” MayCountryStatesUnitedUnited StatesModelsImpactElsewhereOther Countries Author:Joel Klein
“The United States need to be focusing more on creating a more secure, more reliable, more robust, and more trusted internet, not one that's weaker, not one that relies on this systemic model of exploiting every vulnerability, every threat out there.” NeedsStatesUnitedUnited StatesInternetCreatingModelsThreatSecureVulnerabilityRelyTrustedRobust Author:Edward Snowden
“The United States is such a potent political, cultural, and economic model in the evocation of the contemporary world, that to come here, select some elements from the prototype and rearrange them, that's really interesting artistically.” WorldStatesPoliticalInterestingUnitedUnited StatesEconomicElementsModelsContemporarySelectReally InterestingPrototypeEconomic Models Author:Bruno Dumont
“Coal is the moral choice, particularly for the developing world... The model for the world right now should be Australia. Australia gets it. Scientifically they get it, politically they get it and particularly when it comes to the United Nations, they get it. They are pulling out of this, they are repealing their carbon tax and Canada seems to be intrigued by what Australia is doing.” WorldShouldSeemsChoicesNationsUnitedMoralRight NowTaxesModelsDevelopingCanadaAustraliaPullingCarbonCoalUnited NationsIntriguedMoral ChoicesRepealingCarbon Tax Author:Marc Morano
“I want to say something, and it may sound harsh, not to you, but to the American people. In a sense, in my view, the business model of Wall Street is fraud. It's fraud. I believe that corruption is rampant, and the fact that major bank after major bank has reached multi billion dollar settlements with the United States government when we have a weak regulator system tells me that not only did we have to bail them out once, if we don't start breaking them up, we're going to have to bail them out again, and I do not want to see that happen.” PeopleIfsWantBelieveMayStatesFactsGovernmentHappensI BelieveSoundUnitedViewsUnited StatesStreetsWallMajorsModelsWeakDollarsCorruptionBillionsFraudHarshSettlementState GovernmentBusiness ModelsBailUnited States GovernmentRegulators Author:Bernie Sanders
“When I became successful as a model in the United States, I knew that my chance to be heard had come and so I took it.” StatesChanceUnitedUnited StatesSuccessfulHeardModels Author:Waris Dirie
“The relationship between Canada and the United States serves as a model for the world. Our shared values, deep cultural ties, and strong integrated economies will continue to provide the basis for advancing our strong and prosperous partnership.” WorldStatesValuesStrongUnitedUnited StatesEconomyModelsBasesTiesCanadaPartnershipProsperousIntegratedAdvancingShared ValuesCanada And The United States Author:Justin Trudeau
“I think [John Adams's] influence on the federal Constitution was indirect. Many including James Madison mocked the first volume of Adams's Defence of the Constitutions of the United States in 1787. But his Massachusetts constitution was a model for those who thought about stable popular governments, with its separation of powers, its bicameral legislature, its independent judiciary, and its strong executive.” ThinkingFirstsStatesGovernmentStrongUnitedUnited StatesInfluenceModelsConstitutionIndependentIncludingSeparationExecutivesStableVolumeDefenceLegislatureJudiciaryIndirectMassachusettsMadisonConstitution Of The United StatesSeparation Of PowersIndependent Judiciary Author:Gordon S. Wood
“We often confuse or loosely use the ideas of crony capitalism or neoliberalism to actually avoid using the word "capitalism", but once you've actually seen, let's say, what's happening in India and the United States - that this model of US economics packaged in a carton that says "democracy" is being forced on countries all over the world, militarily if necessary, has in the United States itself resulted in 400 of the richest people owning wealth equivalent [to that] of half of the population.” PeopleIfsWorldIdeasCountryStatesUseWealthUnitedHalfUnited StatesDemocracyModelsHappeningsCapitalismEconomicsIndiaPopulationNeoliberalismCroniesCrony Capitalism Author:Arundhati Roy
“The Vietnam War was taking place, which was raising all sorts of questions in the United States, and it was forcing Asian-Americans to stop thinking of themselves as model minorities and to identify themselves more with world revolution, which was very important in my development.” ThinkingWorldImportantWarStatesUnitedUnited StatesRevolutionDevelopmentModelsMinoritiesVietnamAsianVietnam WarAsian American Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“I cheated at the Model United Nations when I was 13 and had to get up and apologise in front of the whole conference.” WholeNationsUnitedFrontsModelsGet UpUnited NationsConferencesCheatedI Cheated Author:Romola Garai
“Here in the United States, we speak with reverence of authentic experience. We write poems about our daddies taking us fishing and breaking our hearts by making us throw the little fish back into the river. We even tell the reader the kind of car we were driving, the year and the model, to give the impression that it’s all true. It’s because we think of ourselves as journalists of a kind. Like them, we’ll go anywhere for a story. Don’t believe a word of it. As any poet can tell you, one often sees better with eyes closed than with eyes wide open.” ThinkingGivingWritingYearsBelieveHeartKindLittlesStatesStoriesEyeSpeakUnitedUnited StatesCarPoetReaderModelsRiversDon't BelieveFishesWideDrivingImpressionJournalistFishingReverenceDaddyEyes Wide Open Author:Charles Simic