“It is a foregone opportunity that we could have a trillion dollars more of income for the United States if we were producing at capacity rather than falling so far short of it.” IfsStatesFallOpportunityUnitedUnited StatesCapacityDollarsIncome Author:Peter R. Orszag
“As the United States chains itself down with greater debt, China is building relationships across the globe to bolster its trade, its access to natural resources, and its energy consumption. In far too many cases, this means lost opportunities for America and our businesses.” MeanStatesAmericaOpportunityEnergyLostNaturalUnitedCasesUnited StatesGreaterBuildingResourcesTradeChinaDebtAccessChainsConsumptionGlobesNatural ResourcesLost OpportunityBuilding RelationshipsEnergy Consumption Author:Reince Priebus
“Take a stand against intolerance and for our American values. Say it with pride: I support democracy in America. I support working people in America. I support opportunity in America. And I support Barack Obama for another four years as president of the United States of America!” PeopleYearsStatesAmericaValuesOpportunityPresidentUnitedUnited StatesSupportDemocracyFourPrideBarackFour YearsIntoleranceUnited States Of AmericaAmerican ValuesDemocracy In AmericaOpportunity In America Author:Richard Trumka
“My parents immigrated to the United States with $10 in their pocket and a belief that the America they had heard about really did exist as the land of opportunity.” StatesAmericaOpportunityBeliefParentUnitedUnited StatesHeardLandPocketsLand Of Opportunity Author:Mia Love
“That someone like Obama could be elected president of the United States - with its unrivaled power and prestige - has begun to restore the country's and the world's faith in America as the land of opportunity.” WorldCountryStatesAmericaOpportunityPresidentUnitedUnited StatesLandPrestigeLand Of Opportunity Author:Dee Dee Myers
“In a free society, every opportunity comes with three obligations. First, you must seize it. You must mold it into a work that brings value to others. Second, you must live it. Opportunity is nurtured only by action. Third, you must defend the freedom to pursue opportunities. You must embrace these three obligations as if the future of the United States depended on it. In fact, it does.” IfsFirstsDoeStatesFactsActionValuesThreeOpportunityWorkUnitedUnited StatesHard WorkThirdsEmbraceObligationPursueMoldFree Society Author:Roberto Goizueta
“Millions upon millions of people came here full of hope and aspiration to this extraordinary land of liberty and opportunity, and helped build the United States. So the Atlantic Ocean was absolutely critical to the story of America.” PeopleStatesStoriesAmericaOpportunityUnitedLibertyMillionsUnited StatesLandOceanExtraordinaryCriticalAspirationAtlantic Ocean Author:Simon Winchester
“If hemp could supply the energy needs of the United States, its value would be inestimable. Now that the drug czar is in final retreat, America has an opportunity to, once and for all, say farewell to the Exxon Valdez, Saddam Hussein and a prohibitively expensive brinkmanship in the desert sands of Saudi Arabia.” IfsNeedsStatesWould BeAmericaValuesOpportunityEnergyUnitedUnited StatesDrugFinalsDesertExpensiveSandRetreatSaddamFarewellHusseinArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisHempCzarsDesert Sand Author:Hugh Downs
“Given lesser opportunities, Kissinger would have done very well as a talk show host. Fortunately for him, although not so fortunately for the United States, he found his patron in Nelson Rockefeller instead of William Paley.” WellsStatesDoneShowsFoundOpportunityGivenUnitedUnited StatesHostNelsonTalk ShowsPatronKissinger Author:Lewis H. Lapham
“So my judgment is that Syria will move; Syria will change, as it embraces a legitimate relationship with the United States and the West and economic opportunity that comes with it and the participation that comes with it.” StatesMovingOpportunityUnitedUnited StatesEconomicJudgmentEmbraceWestSyriaParticipation Author:John F. Kerry
“I think that the opportunity to improve race relations in the United States has been put off temporarily.” ThinkingHas BeensStatesOpportunityUnitedRaceUnited StatesRelationRace Relations Author:Stephen Ambrose
“I believe that the world will be a safer place if there is enough food to go around, that it will be a more stable place if children grow up with opportunities instead of frustrations. Furthermore, I can only assume that if the United States plays a role in helping to create prosperous societies, we will have friends to call on in times of need.” IfsWorldNeedsBelieveChildrenI CanStatesEnoughPlayHelpingOpportunityI BelieveGrowsUnitedPovertyRolesUnited StatesGrowing UpAssumingFrustrationStableProsperousTime Of Need Author:Bill Gates
“If you opened up every single potential drilling opportunity in the United States, it would have the effect of lowering gas prices three cents, maybe. And that's because, of course, oil is traded on a global market.” IfsStatesThreeCoursesOpportunityUnitedUnited StatesEffectsOilGasCentsDrillingGas Prices Author:Jennifer Granholm
“70% of children born into poverty will never make it to the middle class. The uncomfortable truth is that there are now a number of other countries with as much or more opportunity than ours. In fact, more people in Canada go on to surpass the income of their parents than in the United States.” PeopleChildrenCountryStatesFactsOpportunityParentBornUnitedNumbersClassPovertyUnited StatesMiddleGoes OnTruth IsIncomeUncomfortableCanadaMiddle ClassOther Countries Author:Marco Rubio
“If I'm president, some day, young kids will look at the world differently. They will say, I could be president some day. They couldn't have said that before I came along. The world will see the United States in a different context, as a country of true opportunity for all.” IfsWorldLooksSaidDifferentCountryStatesKidsYoungOpportunityPresidentUnitedUnited States Author:Barack Obama
“The United States, which has been called the home of the persecuted and the dispossessed, has been since its founding an asylum for emotional orphans. For over three hundred years, refugees from political oppression, religious persecution, famine, poverty, and a rigid class system which limited educational and economic opportunities have been leaving their native villages and cities and coming to the United States in search of freedom and a better life.” YearsHas BeensStatesHomePoliticalThreeOpportunityReligiousUnitedCitiesClassPovertyUnited StatesEconomicEmotionalHundredLeavingEducationalOppressionNativeVillagePersecutionFoundingRefugeeBetter LifeFamineOrphanAsylumsPersecutedClass SystemReligious PersecutionPolitical Oppression Author:Eileen Simpson
“United States has always been very close to Africa and it's very sad now to see that Africa has a lot more friends - a lot more engagements with the Chinese, with the Indians, with the Brazilians as the United States retreats. Actually, Africa is a wonderful place to do business and American business is missing a big opportunity by really overlooking Africa.” StatesBigsOpportunityUnitedUnited StatesWonderfulMissingChineseEngagementRetreatVery SadOverlookingWonderful PlacesAmerican Business Author:Mo Ibrahim
“The United States has the most sophisticated financial markets in the world, which does not leave much room to maneuver. But it also offers investors the greatest access to information and the ability to execute trades quickly and efficiently. So it is a mixed bag of opportunity.” WorldDoeStatesOpportunityAbilityUnitedRoomsUnited StatesInformationOffersTradeFinancialAccessBagsInvestorsSophisticatedFinancial MarketsAccess To Information Author:Andrew Lo
“During the first World War women in the United States had a chance to try their capacities in wider fields of executive leadershipin industry. Must we always wait for war to give us opportunity? And must the pendulum always swing back in the busy world of work and workers during times of peace?” WorldGivingTryingFirstsWarStatesOpportunityWaitingChanceUnitedUnited StatesFieldsIndustryCapacityWorkersBusyWar Of The WorldsExecutivesSwingsPendulumsFirst World War Author:Mary Barnett Gilson
“The first thing I can remember I ever wanted was to go to the United States. And for reasons that are as conventional as you can imagine: I wanted to know if it was really true that it was the land of opportunity, of democracy, and individual liberty.” IfsKnowsFirstsI CanStatesReasonWantedRememberOpportunityIndividualUnitedLibertyUnited StatesDemocracyImagineLandConventionalIndividual LibertyReally TrueLand Of Opportunity Book:Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations Source: Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
“You know, Arabs are critical of United States foreign policy, but they also associate the U.S. with democratic principles and opportunity.” KnowsStatesOpportunityUnitedPrinciplesUnited StatesPolicyDemocraticCriticalForeign PolicyAssociates Author:Jehane Noujaim
“I come out of the environment of the Deep South, where I had seen the millstone of racial discrimination weighting down my people, both the black people and the white people; and I had seen the enormous progress that we were able to make after we removed the legal restraints of a two-class society, with the whites superior and blacks inferior. So I was very convinced before I became President that basic human rights, equality of opportunity, the end of abuse by governments of their people, was a basic principle on which the United States should be an acknowledged champion.” PeopleShouldHumansTwoEndsStatesGovernmentAbleOpportunityBlackPresidentWhiteUnitedClassPrinciplesUnited StatesEnvironmentRightsProgressAbuseSouthHuman RightsConvincedEnormousDiscriminationSuperiorsChampionBlack PeopleInferiorsRestraintBasic PrinciplesRacial DiscriminationEquality Of OpportunityBasic Human Rights Author:Jimmy Carter
“I always loved science and math growing up. I was born in Iran; I grew up there and then came to the United States when I was about 16 years old. And I thought that this was my opportunity to get involved with something really cool and great.” YearsStatesOpportunityBornUnitedUnited StatesGrowing UpGrowingGrewInvolvedGrew UpMathIranGet InvolvedReally Cool Author:Anousheh Ansari
“Politicians in Europe want change. The United States and China will follow this trend. One could see this is a threat, but it's also an opportunity. We at BMW want to take advantage of this and, through innovations, place ourselves at the forefront.” WantStatesOpportunityUnitedUnited StatesPoliticianEuropeAdvantageInnovationThreatChinaTrendsBmw Author:Norbert Reithofer