“I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.” WorldWantStatesSportsNaturalLevelsUnitedUnited StatesPlayerHeardHighestBaseballBaseball Player Author:Ichiro Suzuki
“Growing up in a very rural and remote area in Colorado's San Luis Valley - one of the poorest counties in the United States - essentially created the framework of values from which I operate. I stand up for the little guy. I fight discrimination at all levels. I fight for an inclusive America.” LittlesStatesAmericaGuyValuesFightingLevelsUnitedUnited StatesGrowing UpGrowingAreasDiscriminationValleysFrameworkCountyPoorestColorado Author:Ken Salazar
“The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our level of prosperity, it is time for them to catch up to our level of openness.” WarCountryStatesLevelsUnitedUnited StatesCaughtProsperityProtectionAcceptedRecoveryPostsOpennessCaught UpPost War Author:Lawrence Summers
“The foundation is being laid for the emergence of both wind and solar cells as cornerstones of the new energy economy. World wind generating capacity grew from 7,600 megawatts in 1997 to 9,600 in 1998, an expansion of 26 percent. At a national level, Germany led the way, adding 790 megawatts of capacity, followed by Spain with 380 megawatts, and the United States with 226 megawatts. In the past, U.S. wind generating capacity was concentrated in California, but in 1998, wind farms began generating electricity in Minnesota, Oregon, and Wyoming, broadening the new industry's geographical base.” WorldWayStatesPastEnergyLevelsUnitedUnited StatesEconomyWindGrewIndustryPercentCapacityFoundationCellsAlternativesCaliforniaGermanyFarmsExpansionElectricitySpainEmergenceCornerstonesMinnesotaOregonWyomingNew EnergyWind FarmsSolar Cells Author:Lester R. Brown
“I was very pleased with the entire selection process. The manner in which it was conducted included all parts of United States' basketball, from the professional level to the colleges and high schools. Everyone was considered.” StatesSchoolProcessLevelsUnitedUnited StatesCollegeBasketballHigh SchoolSelectionParting Author:Mike Krzyzewski
“America washes its dirty linen in public. When scandals such as this one hit, they do sully America's image in the world. But what usually also gets broadcast around the world is the vivid reality that the United States forces accountability and punishes wrongdoing, even at the highest levels.” WorldStatesRealityAmericaForceLevelsUnitedUnited StatesHighestAround The WorldDirtyAccountabilityScandalVividWrongdoingLinen Author:Fareed Zakaria
“Many Europeans, while admiring the strength and power of the American economy, undoubtedly feel that the system of social values which prevails in the United States, manifested in the acute problems evident in the inner cities and the level of violent crime, for example, leaves much to be desired.” FeelsStatesProblemValuesSocialLevelsUnitedCitiesUnited StatesEconomyCrimeExampleViolentEvidentAdmiringInner CityAmerican EconomyViolent CrimesSocial Values Author:Paul Ormerod
“The president of the United States, whoever it is, deserves a certain level of reverence and respect just because of the office he holds.” StatesCertainPresidentLevelsUnitedUnited StatesOfficeDeserveReverence Author:Chris Matthews
“Television has - particularly at the HBO level in the United States - become a completely new genre. Something like Deadwood or The Wire is a whole new thing - there was no equivalent to that medium before. It's like a new way of telling stories.” WayStatesWholeStoriesLevelsUnitedUnited StatesTelevisionMediumsGenreNew ThingsNew WaysWireTelling StoriesHbo Author:William Gibson
“I want the standard of living in Iran in ten years' time to be exactly on a level with that in Europe today. In twenty years' time we shall be ahead of the United States.” WantYearsStatesTodayLevelsUnitedUnited StatesTenStandardsEuropeTwentiesIranStandards Of Living Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
“A lot is being done to bring additional protective measures, particularly the critical infrastructure locations around the United States, ... There is a very active ... program of coordination on this particular period of time with both public and private entities and at the federal, state and local levels.” StatesDoneLevelsUnitedUnited StatesParticularPeriodsProgramCriticalActiveLocalsEntityLocationInfrastructureProtectiveBeing DoneCoordination Author:Condoleezza Rice
“I think there's so much that's not said about sex in the United States. Even from an educational level. And I do a lot of work on human trafficking and I connect a lot with girls that come up and end up in this trade and partially because of a lack of education about sex in the country.” ThinkingHumansSaidEndsCountryStatesGirlSexLevelsUnitedUnited StatesTradeCome UpEducationalHuman TraffickingTraffickingLack Of Education Author:Ashton Kutcher
“When you look at obesity in the United States, clearly it is not a bunch of stupid people. It has nothing to do with intelligence. Sometimes people who are dealing with issues of obesity and compulsive eating know more than I will ever know about nutrition, metabolism, and exercise, because they have studied it. But clearly the real problem, and therefore the real solution, is on another level of consciousness, and that is where the spiritual work comes in.” PeopleKnowsLooksRealSometimesStatesProblemSpiritualLevelsUnitedConsciousnessUnited StatesIssuesStupidExerciseEatingSolutionsBunchNutritionStupid PeopleObesityReal ProblemsMetabolismSpiritual Work Author:Marianne Williamson
“Over time I began to realize that the level of cinema criticism in the last part of XX century in the United States was pretty low. The institution itself is not what it's supposed to be, and I realized that I didn't need to take that seriously.” NeedsStatesLastsRealizingLevelsUnitedUnited StatesCenturyLowsCriticismInstitutionsI RealizedSupposed To BeCinema Author:George Lucas
“The same comparison holds true within the United States itself: Southern and Midwestern states, characterized by the highest levels of religious literalism, are especially plagued by [high rates of homicide, abortion, teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease, and infant mortality], while the comparatively secular states of the Northeast conform to European standards.” StatesReligionReligiousLevelsUnitedUnited StatesDiseaseHighestStandardsRateAbortionComparisonMortalityPregnancySouthernSecularConformInfantSexuallyHomicideTeen PregnancyInfant MortalitySexually Transmitted Diseases Author:Sam Harris
“When 9/11 happened, the world, certainly in the United States of America, there was a unity. There was this sense of unity. And I have to say just from a personal level, it really felt good. We all felt the same way.” WorldWayStatesAmericaFeltLevelsUnitedUnited StatesHappenedUnityUnited States Of America Author:Goldie Hawn
“In the United States, both the upper levels of the Republican and Democratic Parties are in the pay of the corporate media and communication giants.” StatesLevelsUnitedPartyPayUnited StatesMediaCommunicationRepublicanDemocraticCorporateGiantsDemocratic Party Author:Robert Waterman McChesney
“There is a deeper truth expressed in the unity of the United States. Implicate in the union of our country is the union of all people. All people are essentially one. The world is interconnected not only on the material level of economics, trade, communication, and transportation, but innerconnected through human consciousness, through the human heart, through the heart of the world, through the simply expressed impulse and yearning to be and to breathe free.” PeopleWorldHumansHeartCountryStatesLevelsUnitedConsciousnessUnited StatesMaterialsCommunicationEconomicsTradeUnionsUnityDeeperBreatheOur CountryImpulseYearningHuman HeartTransportationInterconnectedHuman Consciousness Author:Dennis Kucinich
“I don't think any sensible person would disagree that the invasion of Iraq led to the massive level of instability that we're seeing right now. I think that was one of the worst foreign policy blunders in the modern history of the United States.” ThinkingPersonsStatesLevelsUnitedUnited StatesSeeingModernWorstPolicyRight NowIraqMassiveDisagreeSensibleForeign PolicyInvasionBlundersInstabilityModern History Author:Bernie Sanders
“Since the advent of the atomic bomb, the United States has always needed two kinds of enemies. On one level, it has needed a tactical enemy that it can go out and fight in the field in a shooting war. Since 1945, these enemies have been created and appeared as North Korea, North Vietnam, Grenada, El Salvador, Panama, Iraq and now Colombia. On another level, however, the US needs a strategic enemy that will justify outrageous expenditures of capital for strategic weapon systems like ICBMs, Trident submarines and "Star Wars" missile defence systems.” NeedsKindHas BeensTwoWarStatesFightingStarsLevelsUnitedEnemyUnited StatesFieldsNeededWeaponsIraqShootingBombsJustifyVietnamKoreaDefenceStrategicNorth KoreaOutrageousMissilesAdventAtomic BombExpendituresColombiaTacticalSubmarinesPanamaEl SalvadorGrenada Author:Michael Ruppert
“The idea that a relatively fixed group of privileged people might shape the economy and government for their own benefit goes against the American grain. Nevertheless, the owners and top-level managers in large income-producing properties are far and away the dominant power figures in the United States. Their corporations, banks, and agribusinesses come together as a corporate community that dominates the federal government in Washington. Their real estate, construction, and land development companies form growth coalitions that dominate most local governments.” PeopleIdeasRealStatesGovernmentMightTogetherFormGrowthCommunityLevelsUnitedCompanyUnited StatesEconomyGroupsLandFiguresDevelopmentShapesBenefitsPropertyIncomeLocalsManagersCorporateCorporationsFixedOwnersConstructionGrainNeverthelessDominantEstatesPrivilegedFederal GovernmentCoalitionsLocal GovernmentAgribusiness Author:G. William Domhoff
“In 1961, the United States began chemical warfare in Vietnam, South Vietnam, chemical warfare to destroy crops and livestock. That went on for seven years. The level of poison - they used the most extreme carcinogen known: dioxin. And this went on for years.” YearsStatesUsedLevelsUnitedKnownUnited StatesSouthSevenExtremesPoisonChemicalsVietnamWarfareSeven YearsCropsLivestockChemical Warfare Author:Noam Chomsky
“Ten years ago, the level was nowhere near what it is today. (on soccer in the United States)” YearsStatesTodayLevelsUnitedUnited StatesTenYears AgoSoccerUsa Author:Landon Donovan
“Today nearly every combat brigade located within the United States would report that they are not ready for duty. They are at the lowest levels of readiness.” StatesTodayLevelsUnitedUnited StatesReadyDutyReportsCombatLowestReadinessNot Ready Author:Ike Skelton
“Even though it's still the United States, I think on many levels they feel separate, especially the true Hawaiians - who are not necessarily thrilled to be a part of the United States. But I just love the whole spirit.” ThinkingFeelsStillsStatesWholeSpiritLevelsUnitedUnited StatesHawaiians Author:Natalie Maines