A Quote by Melvyn Bragg

If you look at the creative economy in this country, it's per capita way bigger than any other in the world.

Melvyn Bragg

Quote Topics

Any Bigger Country Creative Economy Look Other Per Than Way World

Quote Author

Melvyn Bragg
English - Journalist
Born: October 6, 1939

We are incarcerating more people on a per capita basis in California than any country in the world other than South Africa or the Soviet Union.

Rose Bird

We have one of the highest interest rates in the world, and we owe more money per capita than any other country. All we need is a nail hole in the bottom of the boat and we're sunk.

Pauline Hanson

Britain has always had more art schools per capita than any other country.

Mary Quant

Between 2001 and 2011, Brazil lifted 20 million people out of poverty and into its growing middle class, and in the last quarter of the twentieth century Botswana's gross domestic product per capita grew faster than that of any other country on the planet. The once-labeled 'Third World' is edging its way into the 'First World.'

Peter Blair Henry

If you look at the economy, the U.S. economy, in terms of per-capita terms, in terms of other considerations, has been on the descent, ever since the beginning of the war in Indo-China. And it started really as a result of John F. Kennedy being assassinated.

Lyndon LaRouche

All that I can say is that we are spending far more per capita than people in any other country, and our health care outcomes are in many cases worse in terms of life expectancy, infant mortality and so forth.

Bernie Sanders

Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent.

George Ayittey

The U.S. has more guns per capita and supplies more guns to the world than any other country. What would be a fistfight without guns turns into dead bodies with them. Families with guns in the house are more likely to shoot themselves accidentally than to shoot any intruder. Women abused by their partners have a five-fold increased risk of being killed when their partner owns a gun. Every three hours, at least one child is wounded or killed by gunfire.

Gloria Steinem

I once read that more millionaires per capita were created during the Great Depression than at any other time in history.

Harry S. Dent

Even though the crime rate has dropped in recent years, the United States has more police per capita then any other nation in the world.

Michael Parenti

The bigger the city is, the less infrastructure you need per capita.

Geoffrey West

On a per capita basis, Britain is responsible for more of the carbon dioxide now in the atmosphere than any other nation on Earth because it has been burning it from the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.

James Hansen

Frivolous lawsuits are booming in this county. The U.S. has more costs of litigation per person than any other industrialized nation in the world, and it is crippling our economy.

Jack Kingston

A third of our kids, after we spend more per student than any country in the world other than a couple rounding errors, 30 percent are college- and/or career-ready.

Jeb Bush

Per capita, I would say that Australia has more biomimetic projects going than many other countries I've been to.

Janine Benyus

Switzerland has one of the highest per capita incomes in the world, the strongest currency and the largest financial center for foreign assets. And we're a small country with no natural resources. Switzerland is the world capital of dealing in stolen goods.

Jean Ziegler

A Quote by Melvyn Bragg

Quote Topics

Quote Author

Related Quotes

Related Authors