Account Quote by John Hutton

Europe has, to put it mildly, been in a poor state since the transition to the 21st century. This is down to national issues,…

— Helmut Kohl

“US inequality in 2010 is quantitatively as extreme as in old Europe in the first decade of the twentieth century, but the structure of…

— Thomas Piketty

Our gross domestic product, or GDP, is barely above 1 percent. And going down.

— Donald Trump

Less and less is the question being asked as to whether developments are taking place in a democratic and free way. Europe is in…

— Sigmar Gabriel

So Europe's a big driver. And at one point, if the euro hadn't devalued, they would have been making as much money as the…

— Jim Cantalupo

The U.S. has some of the most significant income inequality in the developed world, yet people seem routinely to underestimate that fact.

— Maria Konnikova

“A 2011 OECD report showed that, over the past three decades, in Sweden, Finland, Germany, Israel, and New Zealand--all countries that have chosen a…

— Chrystia Freeland

The U.S. is different from Europe and other industrial countries.

— Noam Chomsky

“The United States, with the greatest ability and the weakest desire to finance a welfare state, winds up in the middle of the pack…

— William Voegeli

Europeans are greater than they have been since any time since the end of the Cold War.

— John McCain

In its best prewar year, Europe with almost 300 million people had a gross national product of 150 billion dollars. In that same year,…

— Paul Hoffman

We have a high standard of living. ... In Norway, we've tripled our income since 1970. In the rest of western Europe, income has merely doubled.

— Jens Stoltenberg