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  • Eugene is located in western Oregon, approximately 278 billion miles from anything. -- Dave Barry
  • My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada. -- Preston Manning
  • Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves. -- Lawrence Kasdan
  • The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China. -- Chen Ning Yang
  • What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985. -- J. Philippe Rushton
  • In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world. -- Omar Bongo
  • India needs to be liberated both from the 'high GDP growth hedgehogs' and the 'conservation at all costs hedgehogs.' -- Jairam Ramesh
  • The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization. -- Stephen Gardiner
  • The aristocracy of Western Europe has absolutely tabooed silver in those countries and driven it away from there. Here it finds its only resting place. -- Richard P. Bland
  • I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one. -- Katharine Whitehorn
  • Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns. -- Terry Riley
  • Our estimates suggest that a tax increase of 1 percent of GDP reduces output over the next three years by nearly 3 percent. The effect is highly significant. -- Christina Romer
  • You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes. -- Ornette Coleman
  • In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period. -- Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song. -- Dave Van Ronk
  • Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures. -- Michael Novak
  • Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns. -- Sergio Aragones
  • Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP. -- Polly Toynbee
  • I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it. -- Warren Buffett
  • We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II. -- Warren Buffett
  • I've got a chart here that shows our debt-to-GDP ratio. And while we did run deficits in the past, we now number our debt in trillions rather than in billions. And I think that represents a long-term danger, especially to the, the American dream. -- Mark Kirk
  • But clearly an economy that's growing and expanding like this one - and it certainly is doing that with high GDP output, employment numbers strong, capacity utilization strong - that's an environment in which the Fed needs to continually be alert to early signs of inflation. -- John W. Snow
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  • Government is taking 40 percent of the GDP. And that's at the state, local and federal level. President Obama has taken government spending at the federal level from 20 percent to 25 percent. Look, at some point, you cease being a free economy, and you become a government economy. And we've got to stop that. -- Mitt Romney
  • America is dying at 1 percent GDP. -- Donald Trump
  • GDP tells you nothing about sustainability -- Joseph Stiglitz
  • Charitable giving in the United States has remained at 2% of GDP since 1970. -- Jeff Henderson
  • When gross public debt exceeds 90 percent of GDP, economic growth tends to decline considerably. -- Kevin McCarthy
  • Equity, dignity, happiness, sustainability - these are all fundamental to our lives but absent in the GDP. -- Helen Clark
  • We've actually been pretty good on exports. I mean we are exporting 12% of our GDP now roughly. -- Warren Buffett
  • While I was at Microsoft, the annual revenues grew larger than the GDP of the Republic of Ghana. -- Patrick Awuah, Jr.
  • We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP. -- Henry Rollins
  • Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it. -- Ken Livingstone
  • Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP. -- Bill Gross
  • With this latest largesse, public expenditures have tripled since 2004, while the private sector's contribution to non-oil GDP has stagnated. -- Karen Elliott House
  • Only five NATO countries, including the United States, are currently meeting their minimum requirement to spend 2% of GDP on defense. -- Donald Trump
  • GDP does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play -- Robert Kennedy
  • Yes. We do think that the stimulus package is raising GDP and raising employment relative to what would have happened otherwise. -- Doug Elmendorf
  • If there is one number to which the rights of millions will be happily sacrificed, it is the national GDP growth rate. -- William Easterly
  • While our energy efficiency is improving, there is a very high correlation, almost near perfect correlation, between GDP growth, and energy usage. -- Malcolm Turnbull
  • Our GDP growth rates are creating - our high GDP growth rates, the success of our economy means we're creating lots of disposable income. -- John W. Snow
  • World talks GDP but in Bhutan its about National Happiness. Am sure having India as a neighbour would be 1 of the reasons for the happiness. -- Narendra Modi
  • It's time we admitted that there's more to life than money, and it's time we focused not just on GDP, but on GWB - general well-being -- David Cameron
  • You have these crops of poppies that supply something like 90% of the heroin sold in Europe and actually represents more than half of the Afghanistan's GDP. -- Khaled Hosseini
  • Six percent, 5 percent of our GDP for him [Vladimir Putin] to match us, he has to spend 25 percent of his GDP and it will bankrupt his country. -- Rudy Giuliani
  • It costs governments money to keep fuel prices low. Oil-rich Yemen, for instance, devotes 9 percent of its GDP to making sure its people don't riot when oil prices rise. -- Robert Kiyosaki
  • Entitlements seem to grow with prosperity; not only because they are indexed to inflation or GDP, but also because a prosperous country tells itself it can afford more benefits. -- Amity Shlaes
  • The issue of universal coverage is not a matter of economics. Little more than 1 percent of GDP assigned to health could cover all. It is a matter of soul. -- Uwe Reinhardt
  • What are these so-called austerity measures? What do they really bring? Oh, they bring a lot more poverty. Oh, they bring a worse GDP. Oh, they bring more unemployment. -- Gerald Celente
  • I think, my generation, it's hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP. -- Shia LaBeouf
  • Western Europe GDP per capita - not taking into account the new accession counties - was lower in 2001 relative to that of the US than any time since the 1960's. -- John Hutton
  • What Donald Trump is focused on is a policy of trade that looks after the interests of the American worker, not just the overall GDP numbers. And that is what is resonating. -- Rick Santorum
  • Apart from their work and production, households perform other important economic functions. Most CONSUMPTION occurs within the household. ... In developed capitalist economies, private consumption spending accounts for half or more of GDP. -- Jim Stanford
  • Is it in the UK's interests to leave the EU? It depends on your values. The answer can't be read off of GDP statistics under various scenarios or some measures of global influence. -- Dale Jamieson
  • I have always said that I want Malawi to attain growth that should not just be seen in GDP, but in the growth of opportunities for all, protection for all, and equality for all. -- Joyce Banda
  • If your credit is going to grow at 10-15 percent per year in order to get your 5 percent GDP growth per year, eventually you're going to have a problem. This isn't a stable system. -- Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell
  • I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection. -- Warren Buffett
  • I'm not worried they're all about the investments we make. I mean, listen, this country - we've got $46,000 or $47,000 of GDP per capita. Now, we've done pretty darn well. We'll do better in the future. -- Warren Buffett
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