“People are constantly applying double standards. Take the United States, for example. Washington wants the whole world to admire the country for its democracy. Then the government sends out its army, in the name of this democracy, and leaves behind the kind of chaos we see in Iraq.” PeopleWorldWantKindCountryStatesWholeGovernmentNamesUnitedBehindsUnited StatesDemocracyExampleStandardsArmyChaosIraqWhole WorldAdmireDouble Standard Author:Jacob Zuma
“It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Virtually everything that government does, of any significance, is conducted behind an extreme wall of secrecy. The very few leaks that we’ve had over the last decade are basically the only ways that we’ve had to learn what our government is doing.” WayDoeHardStatesGovernmentLastsUnitedBehindsUnited StatesImagineWallExtremesDecadesSignificanceSecrecyLeaksSecretive Author:Glenn Greenwald
“Polio has not been eradicated by vaccination, it is lurking behind a redefinition and new diagnostic names like viral or aseptic meningitis.......According to one of the 1997 issues of the MMWR, there are some 30,000 to 50,000 cases of viral meningitis per year in the United States alone. That's where all those 30,000 - 50,000 cases of polio disappeared after the introduction of mass vaccination” YearsStatesNamesUnitedBehindsCasesUnited StatesIssuesMassIntroductionLurkingViralPolioVaccinationsMeningitis Author:Viera Scheibner
“It is embarrassing that the United States is so far behind the rest of the world when it comes to mCommerce.” WorldStatesUnitedBehindsUnited StatesInnovationEmbarrassing Author:Braden Kelley
“It is typical, in America, that a person's hometown is not the place where he is living now but is the place he left behind.” PersonsAmericaLeftBehindsUnited StatesRootsTypicalLeft BehindHometown Book:A Way of Seeing Source: A Way of Seeing
“There is a good deal of evidence that the United States is moving to the right, and that the main force behind the movement is a resurgence, in a new form, of racial prejudice.” StatesMovingFormForceUnitedDealsBehindsUnited StatesMovementRacismEvidencePrejudiceRacial PrejudiceResurgence Author:Shirley Chisholm
“If deliberate distortion of reality by corporate media could be effectively prosecuted in the United States, the entire industry would be behind bars.” IfsStatesRealityWould BeUnitedBehindsUnited StatesMediaIndustryBarsCorporateDeliberateDistortion Author:Cynthia McKinney
“My father was a mailman. His father was a coal miner. My mother's mother could barely speak English. And their son today stands on this podium in the great state of Ohio not only as the governor, but a candidate for president of the United States.I do believe in miracles.I've had a lot of elections. But my elections are really not about campaigns. I tell my people that these are about a movement.A movement to do things like provide economic growth. And a movement not to let anybody be behind.” PeopleBelieveStatesTodayMotherFatherSpeakGrowthPresidentUnitedBehindsUnited StatesEconomicMovementSonMiracleElectionCampaignsCandidatesGovernorsCoalEconomic GrowthOhioMinersSpeak EnglishBelieve In MiraclesCoal MinersMailman Author:John Kasich
“We need to fund No Child Left Behind. We need to start at the beginning and we are not doing the job here in the United States of America.” NeedsChildrenStatesJobsAmericaLeftUnitedBehindsUnited StatesFundUnited States Of AmericaLeft BehindNo Child Left Behind Author:Tim Ryan
“The terms "idiot" and "lunatic" were acceptable diagnostic terms in England up until 1959. "Imbecile" and "feeble-minded person" were, likewise, listed as official categories in the 1913 Mental Deficiency Act. England has always lagged a bit behind in discarding outdated terms for the disadvantaged. When I was there in 1980, it was still possible to shop for used clothing at the local Spastic Shop. That is, compared to the United States, where it takes, oh, about twenty-five minutes for a diagnostic euphemism to become a conversational faux pas.” PersonsStillsStatesUsedBitsTermUnitedBehindsUnited StatesFiveMinutesEnglandTwentiesLocalsIdiotOfficialsShopsCategoriesClothingsAcceptableFive MinutesLunaticTwenty FiveDeficiencyOutdatedImbecilesEuphemismDisadvantagedFauxFaux Pas Book:Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife Source: Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife
“High-speed trains in Japan can now reach 375 mph - twice as fast as any public transit train in the United States. America's railroads were once the envy of the world. Today they are in disrepair and we are falling further and further behind the rest of the world. We need to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, including rail. When we do that we not only make our country more productive and efficient, we create millions of new jobs.” WorldNeedsCountryStatesTodayJobsAmericaFallUnitedBehindsMillionsUnited StatesTrainIncludingSpeedEnvyOur CountryProductiveJapanEfficientInfrastructureWorld TodayRailRailroadsNew JobCrumblingHigh SpeedMphCrumbling Infrastructure Author:Bernie Sanders