Global Comparison Quotes

I want the standard of living in Iran in ten years' time to be exactly on a level with that in Europe today. In twenty years' time we shall be ahead of the United States.

People say it’s a radical proposal. Well, I think to have the current situation is what is radical. No other country has anything like it.

There is no better system in the world than the U.K. education system that offers better value for money.

What we're doing here in America is we're making women choose between the family they love and the job that they need. No other nation on the planet is making these choices. In other countries, they've put politics aside and looked at the facts. When women succeed, the world succeeds. We're losing sight of that here in the USA.

In Iran I think nobody loses their job because of making a statement that reflects their opinion. From this point of view, conditions in Iran are far better than in many other places in the world.

Kiwis must not fall behind the standards of other countries. We pride ourselves on our quality of life. Thus we must pave the road in the right way for the future generations.

We are going to have the best educated American people in the world.

A dead man in Spain is more alive than a dead man anywhere in the world.

I don't think there's a public in the world who respond like the British to a call for charity.

In the early stages of Internet in Japan, many said that Japanese and Americans are different. There are 10 reasons why Japanese Internet is not taking off. I said none of them are right; it's just a time lag. And, of course, Japanese Internet took off.

Barack Obama wants to change America. Barack Obama wants America to be more like the rest of the world. We don't want to be like the rest of the world. We want to be the United States of America.

The United States already has the highest corporate tax rate in the world.

If the traditional British elite had made a great success of running my country, as successful, say, as the elites of Germany, Japan and America, then maybe it would be a club worth joining.

And yet, there are still people in American politics who, for some reason, cling to this belief that America is better off adopting the economic policies of nations whose people who immigrate here from there.

The U.S. is still in a pretty good spot, especially relative to other advanced countries. The aging of our population is not as pronounced as almost anyone else's.

Even today with the problems that we face, who would you rather be? Which country would you trade places with?

Germany, Italy and France appear to possess less dynamism than do the U.S. and the others.

We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.

Being an American is life-threatening. For various reasons, men and women here don't live as long as men and women in about two dozen other countries, including the ones we defeated in World War II - Japan, Germany and Italy.

I think that there are more opportunities for young women in America than there are in Tanzania. But I also think there are many of the same problems.

Even in these difficult times we face, there is not one nation on Earth that would not want to trade places with us.

We are, if territory and population be looked at together, one of the great countries of the world - a monster country, one might say, along with others such as China, India, the recent Soviet Union, and Brazil. And there is a real question as to whether "bigness" in a body politic is not an evil in itself, quite aside from the policies pursued in its name.

Food: We have more of it and pay less for it than any other country in the world.

Is the U.S. better or is the world better? Is the U.S. better off today than we were four years ago? Obviously not, economically not. I think our stature in the world is not the same.

We really don’t have a gun problem here as they do in Africa, Asia or South America. There people actually go to work with an AK47 slung over their shoulder…. In Iraq for example, every family is allowed to have one weapon and they almost always choose and AK47…. The United States, in contrast, has a very transparent arms system.