Population Quotes - Page 28

• Job growth well in excess of population increase would be a very good thing if it were only that easy.

  Bob Beauprez

  Jobs, Growth, Would Be

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• Just to keep up with population growth, on average our economy needs to be adding about 125,000 jobs per month.

  Bob Beauprez

  Jobs, Average, Growth

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• Two new workers are being added to the population for every one job that is created.

  Bob Beauprez

  Jobs, Two, Workers

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• President Obama has tried to spin the paltry new job creation numbers as 'a step in the right direction.' But, clearly, the small growth in jobs isn't even keeping up with population growth, much less returning the workforce to a healthy level.

  Bob Beauprez

  Jobs, Numbers, Healthy

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• Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as from the consequences of humanitarian crises, whether natural or man-made.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Men, Rights, Humanitarian

  Statement to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 18 April 2008, New York, NY

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• In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking.

  Joe Biden

  Moving, Growth, India

  "Political Gaffes to Spark Any Party". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with John Ydstie, www.npr.org. November 5, 2006.

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• We've shown the world that New York can never be defeated, because of its dynamic and diverse population and because it embodies the spirit of enterprise and the love of liberty. And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Dream, New York, Business

  Michael Bloomberg's Speech at the Republican National Convention in New York City, New York, www.washingtonpost.com. August 30, 2004.

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• Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level.

  Norman Borlaug

  Country, Agriculture, India

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• Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.

  Pierre Bourdieu

  Thinking, Television, Significant

  Pierre Bourdieu, Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson (1999). “On Television”, p.18, The New Press

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• Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Illinois, Black, Vote

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• Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population.

  John O. Brennan

  War, Casualties, Civilians

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• Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Poultry, Incubation, Manifestation

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• The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population.

  Bill Bryson

  Two, World, Economy

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• The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a free press, where European styles and forms are distrusted and where the female half of the population became literate only in this generation.

  James Buchan

  Country, Dog, Men

  "Lifting the veil" by James Buchan, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2004.

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• The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds of millions more a life of ease and plenty, and, by allowing great cities to feed themselves from every corner of the world, multiplied the population of the earth fivefold.

  James Buchan

  Cities, People, Toil

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• There is a hugely underserved population out there... those who are the least capable of paying pay the highest.

  James Cameron

  Pay, Highest, Capable

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• I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population and gave birth to the whole world. Without them the rest [of the world] are not getting to know the whole story.

  Jane Campion

  Women, Writing, Feminist

  "Wanted: female film-makers" by Viv Groskop, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2009.

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• Because you want to have competition to drive down the price. You want innovation. You have the ability to get people to agree that it's worth having a public plan. You could get private insurers to cover this population, but you couldn't without giving the population leverage in the marketplace.

  Maria Cantwell

  People, Giving, Competition

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• A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.

  John le Carre

  Spy, Literature, Stealing

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• I will not accept a new wave of fiscal retrenchment, of belt-tightening, without asking people at the top to make their contribution, to make an additional contribution. I don't think you can ask people on middle and low incomes, who, after all, are the vast majority of the British population, to bear the brunt of this adjustment.

  Nick Clegg

  Thinking, People, Majority

  "Nick Clegg: parents can use pension pots to help young people buy property" by Hélène Mulholland, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2012.

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• For a border state, I would argue that Texas is less lunatic on the subject of immigration issues than other places around it, like Arizona. They're much more comfortable with their long-term identity as a place with a very large Hispanic population.

  Gail Collins

  Texas, Issues, Long

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• Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it's hardly tax-free. The property taxes are high for a Southern state. The sales taxes are high. One study found that the bottom 20 percent of the Texas population pays 12 percent of its income in state and local taxes.

  Gail Collins

  Texas, Southern, Income

  "Border Raids". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. June 19, 2013.

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• Art can help a town by attracting a certain Bohemian population that adds life to the bars, character to the streets and a buzz to the name. Employers may then follow. But art can't do much if every town does it. There aren't enough Bohemians.

  Evan Davis

  Art, Character, Names

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• There is a strong link between the following three things: exporting, manufacturing and the degree of saving by the population. It's complicated, but if the population doesn't save, the economy will not tend to export as much, and if it doesn't export as much, it won't manufacture enough.

  Evan Davis

  Strong, Degrees, Three

  "Evan Davis: 'I'm a presenter who is gay rather than a gay presenter'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. May 07, 2011.

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• When a population saves a lot, the funds are invested outside the country as well as inside. If the Japanese invest in the United States, it pushes their exchange rate down and makes their manufacturing more competitive.

  Evan Davis

  Country, United States, Down And

  "Evan Davis: 'I'm a presenter who is gay rather than a gay presenter'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. May 07, 2011.

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