“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
“Historically, the United States has had a wonderful energy policy. We're blessed with a diversity of resources. We have oil. We have gas. We have coal. We have nuclear. And renewables. And as a result, one of our biggest competitive advantages has been affordable energy. You need a strong economy and you need affordable energy to fuel that economy.” NeedsHas BeensStatesEnergyStrongUnitedResultsUnited StatesEconomyWonderfulPolicyDiversityResourcesAdvantageBlessedOilNuclearFuelGasCoalAffordableCompetitive AdvantageEnergy PolicyStrong Economy Author:John S. Watson
“The money economy thus leaves a large ecological footprint, defined as the amount of land and resources required to meet a typical consumer's needs. For example, with only about 4% of the world's population, the United States, the largest money economy, consumes in excess of one-quarter of the world's energy and materials and generates in excess of 25 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.” WorldNeedsStatesEnergyUnitedUnited StatesEconomyLandExampleMaterialsAmountPercentResourcesPopulationDefinedConsumersGasQuartersExcessConsumerismTypicalEmissionsEcologicalFootprintOverconsumptionGreenhousesGreenhouse GasesEcological Footprints Author:Stuart L. Hart
“Lastly, there is bankruptcy, as the United States pours its economic resources into ever more grandiose military projects and shortchanges the education, health, and safety of its citizens.” StatesAmericaUnitedUnited StatesEconomicMilitaryCitizensProjectsResourcesSafetyBankruptcyGrandioseHealth And SafetyEconomic Resources Author:Chalmers Johnson
“The United States cannot reshape other countries in its own image and that, with a few exceptions, its efforts to police the world are neither in its interests nor within the scope of its resources. This whole tendency to see ourselves as the center of political enlightenment and as teachers to a great part of the rest of the world strikes me as unthought-through, vainglorious and undesirable.” WorldCountryStatesWholeAmericaPoliticalInterestUnitedEffortUnited StatesTeacherEnlightenmentResourcesPoliceStrikesTendenciesExceptionOther CountriesScopeUndesirable Author:George F. Kennan
“The most abundant resources that we possess amongst the 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States are passion and knowledge, yet our most scarce resource is collaboration.” StatesPassionUnitedMillionsUnited StatesResourcesCollaborationScarceNonprofitsScarce Resources Author:Adam Braun
“When a child loses his parent, they are called an orphan. When a spouse loses her or his partner, they are called a widow or widower. When parents lose their child, their isn't a word to describe them. This month recognizes the loss so many parents experience across the United States and around the world. It is also meant to inform and provide resources for parents who have lost children due to miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, molar pregnancy, stillbirths, birth defects, SIDS, and other causes.” WorldChildrenStatesLostCausesParentLosesLossUnitedUnited StatesMonthsBirthResourcesDuesPartnersAround The WorldPregnancySpouseDefectsWidowsOrphanMiscarriageSidsStillbirthBirth DefectsLost ChildWidowers Author:Ronald Reagan
“During a single week of July 1967, 164 Americans were killed and 2100 were wounded in city riots in the United States. We are truly fighting a two-front war and doing badly in both. Each war feeds on the other and, although the President assures us that we have the resources to win both wars, in fact we are not winning either.” TwoWarStatesFactsFightingWinningPresidentUnitedCitiesUnited StatesWeekFrontsResourcesWoundedJulyRiot Author:J. William Fulbright
“The people of the United States will not tolerate another deep depression that arises not from any lack of natural resources, productive capacity or man and brain power, but solely from imperfections in the functioning of the system of finance capitalism.” PeopleMenStatesNaturalUnitedBrainUnited StatesCapitalismResourcesCapacityAriseFinanceProductiveImperfectionTolerateNatural ResourcesBrain PowerDeep Depression Author:Benjamin Graham
“In reality, Kyoto was a huge transfer of resources from the United States to the Third World, under the guise of environmental protection.” WorldStatesRealityUnitedUnited StatesHugeResourcesThirdsEnvironmentalProtectionTransfersThird WorldGuiseEnvironmental ProtectionKyotoKyoto Protocol Author:Charles Krauthammer
“America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity.” PeopleHeartAmericaLawHumanityJusticeUnited StatesMaterialsResourcesJustice For All Book:Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition Source: Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition
“The main implication is a remapping of the world in line with American policy and American interests. Natural resources are limited, and the United States wants to make sure that its own population is kept supplied. The principle effect of this will be for the United States to control large parts of the oil which the world possesses.” WorldWantStatesInterestNaturalLinesUnitedPrinciplesUnited StatesEffectsPolicyResourcesPopulationOilImplicationsNatural Resources Author:Tariq Ali
“Bolivia historically made and still makes a living from natural resources. Before it was tin, but also silver, gold, and other minerals were plundered by many foreign countries. Europe after the United States.” MadeStillsCountryStatesNaturalUnitedUnited StatesResourcesEuropeGoldSilverNatural ResourcesMineralsTinForeign CountriesBolivia Author:Evo Morales
“He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet. The fabled birth of Minerva, from the brain of Jove, was hardly more sudden or more perfect than the financial system of the United States, as it burst forth from the conceptions of Alexander Hamilton.” StatesPerfectUnitedBrainUnited StatesFeetRocksBirthResourcesFinancialCreditStreamsTouchedConceptionRevenueCorpsesSprungHamiltonFinancial SystemMinerva Author:Daniel Webster
“[According to the rigid dogma] we have to believe the United States would have so-called liberated Iraq even if its main products were lettuce and pickles and the main energy resource of the world were in central Africa.” IfsWorldBelieveStatesEnergyUnitedUnited StatesProductsResourcesIraqDogmaLiberatedPicklesLettuce Author:Noam Chomsky
“The under-funded and over-extended United States Patent and Trademark Office does not have the resources to adequately evaluate the burgeoning number of applications, and too many low-quality patents are being issued as a result.” DoeStatesUnitedResultsNumbersQualityUnited StatesOfficeLowsResourcesApplicationEvaluatePatentsTrademarks Author:Viet D. Dinh
“Communism then defines a society in which there are communal forms for dealing with resources. Many communal forms exist where there are not communist governments. The Mondragon cooperatives in Spain and the thousands of worker-owned cooperatives in the United States, are viable alternatives to capitalism.” StatesGovernmentFormUnitedUnited StatesCapitalismResourcesWorkersCommunismAlternativesCommunistSpainCooperatives Author:Cynthia Kauffman