#lion

I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#globalization #hard #hundred #i #like

When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to lie to the Grand Jury, We have to pay burglars a million dollars, it's all too clear the horror of what went on. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#clear #dollars #grand #grand jury #hear

The politicians in Washington are spending trillions of dollars of our money. When are Americans going to stand up and say enough is enough? ↗

— Joe Wurzelbacher

#enough #enough is enough #going #money #our

Even Silicon Valley investors have put well over a $1 billion in new energy technologies. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#energy #even #investors #new #over

The other are the strategic, so-called strategic stocks that the United States and the other Western industrial countries have, which could put in as much as four million barrels a day of oil into the market pretty quickly. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#could #countries #day #four #industrial

Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, we're going to lose millions of people. And the politicians knew how to solve it, they just didn't have the courage to solve it; they were going to put coal dust on the Arctic. ↗

— Don Young

#arctic #chatter #coal #coming #courage

Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#benefit #borrowers #brought #changed #family

Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#around #bank #billion #financial #financial systems

Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#away #billions #could #development #dollars

Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot be sanctioned and pressed down forever. It is the last great civilization to sit outside the global order. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#cannot #civilization #country #crucial #down