Per Capita Quotes

36 quotes by 35 authors

Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people. — Tony Campolo
How can we vote for a bill [S.744] that our own CBO says will reduce average wages in America for 12 years, increase unemployment for… — Jeff Sessions
America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest number of… — Billy Graham
Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts. — Anna Funder
WHEAT, n. A cereal from which a tolerably good whisky can be made; . . . also for bread. The French are said to eat… — Ambrose Bierce
In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that when… — P.J. O'Rourke
As we move towards 8 or 10 billion people on the planet, there's a little less gold per capita. Each one of us will continue… — Dean Kamen
The Holy Grail of universal coverage in the United States may remain out of reach unless, through rational collective action overriding some individual self-interest, we… — Donald Berwick
Increase in the wealth per capita fosters democracy; but the latter, at least according to what we have been able to observe up to now,… — Vilfredo Pareto
American critics of welfare statism are often surprised to learn that countries like West Germany, with a much more comprehensive welfare state and a statistically… — Robert Kuttner
Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent. — George Ayittey
Where do people earn the Per Capita Income? More than one poor starving soul would like to know. In our countries, numbers live better than… — Eduardo Galeano
The vast majority of those of Scots lineage living in the Ulster counties in the 18th century had come across, or their people had come… — Tom Devine
The standard growth theory tells us that economic growth in per capita basis comes from mainly two sources: capital deepening and total factor productivity growth,… — Toshihiko Fukui
If you look at casualties, you find countries that had much higher loss rates per capita than the US. Denmark comes to mind, the United… — David Petraeus
Only one rational path is open to us - simultaneous de-development of the [overdeveloped countries] and semi-development of the underdeveloped countries (UDCs), in order to… — John Holdren
We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western civilization; we were… — John Lahr
If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance… — William Greider
Today, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy. — Abdul Kalam
The United States remains the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all of our people. And yet we are spending… — Hillary Clinton

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