We're bankrupting our country and we have an empire that we're trying to defend which costs us $1 trillion a year. And… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Italy is the fourth-largest economy in Europe and the eighth-largest economy in the world, and its banking system is collapsing. And Germany… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
I want the standard of living in Iran in ten years' time to be exactly on a level with that in Europe… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
CO2 is a minor player in the total system, and human CO2 emissions are insignificant compared to total natural greenhouse gas emissions.… — Jonathan Duhamel Copy Share Image
If we look at everybody's darling, China, there is an analogue called Taiwan that is inhabited by the Chinese as well. But… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
That's the one thing a politician mustn't have - political opinions or principles. He can have prejudices - indeed he must have… — Helen McCloy Copy Share Image
I find that the standard of living does not go up in proportion with the cost of living. The trick in life… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I quickly convinced myself that the true key to material happiness lay in a modest standard of living which could be achieved… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Poor people in America today (people who are officially in poverty) have a higher standard of living - in terms of medical… — Michael Medved Copy Share Image
Government intervention in the economy - through taxes, regulation and, most importantly, currency inflation - causes distortions and misallocations of capital that… — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
The psychological pain--and the ethical shame--of American poverty are made greater by the fact that this country possesses the wealth and the… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for avoiding muscular energy, for increasing sensual pleasure… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Make the wrong choices now and future generations will live with a changed climate, depleted resources and without the green space and… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
If you believe that the developing world deserves the same standards of living that we do in the developed world, then to… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
The capabilities (intellectual and material) of contemporary society are immeasurably greater than ever before - which means that the scope of society's… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
What's going on in this country? Unions stand against those trends. We've got to somehow insulate the robust American economy from this… — James P. Hoffa Copy Share Image
Too much of the world's happiness depends on taking from one to satisfy another. To increase my standard of living, someone in… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
The system is not intended as a substitute for private savings, pension plans, and insurance protection. It is, rather, intended as the… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A revolution in humanity's use of fossil fuel-based energy would be necessary sooner or later to sustain and to extend modern standards… — Ross Garnaut Copy Share Image
I believe in an America that is on the march - an America respected by all nations, friends and foes alike -… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
America has the highest standard of living of any major country in the entire world. To maintain and enhance that standard of… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
When culture changes around us, God's standard of living does not. Even when we're engulfed by evil, the eyes of the Lord… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
You know, I think of the global economy as an inverted triangle, resting on the shoulders of the American consumer. And if… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
