A Quote by Christopher Flavin
Within a few decades...the United States might get 30% of its electricity from sunshine.
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While there are few problems in today's world that the United States can solve alone, there are even fewer that can be solved without the United States.
But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there.
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Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself.
[People] have seen the credit market seize up. They're worried about money market funds, although the latest proposition from government should take care of that. They've seen eight percent of the bank deposits in the United States get moved very skillfully, I might say, within the last couple of weeks from institutions that they thought were fine a few months ago to other institutions. They are not wrong to be worried.
I have lived in the United States and I know the might of their industrial complex. The United States is a sleeping giant and I am afraid that our attack has awakened it.
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