“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
“The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.” StatesCharacterChanceUnitedPayUnited StatesCitizensDrawsForgivenessThirdsCrowdsFavorsFiftyGrants Author:Bill Vaughan
“The people on the streets of Egypt and Tunisia and Libya and Syria and Iran have done more to defeat the ideology of Al Qaeda than anything that the United States has done. They have shown that there is a third way, that with peaceful protest you can have an end to dictatorship and a role for human dignity, a role for your religious faith in society.” PeopleWayHumansEndsStatesDoneReligiousUnitedRolesUnited StatesStreetsDignityThirdsDefeatPeacefulIdeologyProtestIranAlsDictatorshipSyriaEgyptReligious FaithAl QaedaHuman DignityLibyaPeaceful ProtestTunisia Author:Reza Aslan
“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
“There's more private security in the United States than there are publicly funded forces, like police. What you don't want is a meld of government and commerce - you really want to keep those two things separate - because once you have that meld, you've got megacorruption, and you have no third force to whom you can say this stuff is poisoning our kids.” WantTwoStatesGovernmentKidsForceStuffUnitedUnited StatesSecurityThirdsPoliceTwo ThingsCommercePoisoning Author:Margaret Atwood
“Native people - about two-thirds of the uranium in the United States is on indigenous lands. On a worldwide scale, about 70 percent of the uranium is either in Aboriginal lands in Australia or up in the Subarctic of Canada, where native people are still fighting uranium mining.” PeopleStillsTwoStatesFightingUnitedUnited StatesLandPercentThirdsScalesCanadaNativeAustraliaIndigenousMiningAboriginalUraniumUranium Mining Author:Winona LaDuke
“People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back. And given what the United States Government and Western powers have done to the third world, I feel that these countries should fight back.” PeopleWorldFeelsShouldCountryStatesDoneGovernmentFightingGivenUnitedUnited StatesViolenceThirdsWesternRebelThird WorldState GovernmentUnited States Government Author:Yuri Kochiyama
“The United States is dangerously close to being a plutocracy. A third of the private wealth is owned by less than 5 percent of the population.” StatesWealthUnitedUnited StatesPercentThirdsPopulationPlutocracy Book:The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America Source: The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America
“I think that by the time I start writing the third book, of course, I will be President Of The United States, and that also will have something to do with it. I'll probably have to acknowledge that somehow.” ThinkingWritingBookStatesCoursesPresidentUnitedUnited StatesThirdsAcknowledge Author:John Hodgman
“Eighty-two percent of prisoners in the United States are high-school dropouts. A high-school dropout between the ages of 30 and 34 is two-thirds more likely to be in jail, or to have been in jail, or to be dead.” Has BeensTwoStatesAgeSchoolUnitedUnited StatesPercentHigh SchoolThirdsJailPrisonerEightyDropoutsSchool DropoutHigh School Dropout Author:Kamala Harris
“The United States ranks 14th in the world in education. Even if we subtract Sarah Palin's test scores, it only bumps us to third. Damn you, Finland!” IfsWorldStatesUnitedUnited StatesTestsThirdsDamnScoreBumpsPalinFinlandTest ScoresDamn You Author:Christopher Titus
“The number one killer of children in Rwanda is malaria. Since the United States of America stood up and working with Rwandans, we have been able to cut those deaths by two-thirds.” ChildrenHas BeensTwoStatesAbleAmericaUnitedNumbersUnited StatesCuttingThirdsKillersUnited States Of AmericaStood UpMalariaRwanda Author:Bill Frist