Quotes by West Germany The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here. Brian Mulroney west-germany japan united-states There are also people who lived in either side of Germany, but who never had or have any relationship with the other side whether it was former East or former West Germany. Christian Schwochow west-germany east people We have the heaviest concentration of lawyers on Earth -- one for every five-hundred Americans; three times as many as are in England, four times as many as are in West Germany, twenty-one times as many as there are in Japan. We have more litigation, but I am not sure that we have more justice. No resources of talent and training in our own society, even including the medical care, is more wastefully or unfairly distributed than legal skills. Ninety percent of our lawyers serve 10 percent of our people. We are over-lawyered and under-represented. Jimmy Carter west-germany japan skills You know, North Korea situation is far worse than East Germany, and South Korea is weaker than West Germany. Kim Dae-jung west-germany east-germany aunt I grew up spending time at my grandmother's farm in Germany and she lived a few kilometers away from the border between east and west Germany. It was so strange that roads which used to connect two towns now ended in the middle. Matthea Harvey west-germany grandmother two Traveling to Russia and Germany and being able to see the world at a young age was really cool for me, and I really liked that. Mia Wasikowska west-germany russia age American critics of welfare statism are often surprised to learn that countries like West Germany, with a much more comprehensive welfare state and a statistically larger public sector, have fewer government employees per capita than the United States does. Robert Kuttner west-germany government country If we had had time and the occasion to develop a new socialism in the GDR, socialism with a human face, with democracy, this might have been an example also to West Germany. The development would have run the other way. Stefan Heym west-germany democracy running A foreman in the East wouldn't know how many workers he would have the next day, because part of his working force had left the system to go to West Germany. Stefan Heym west-germany next-day east Even in West Germany in the beginning, people wanted a kind of socialism. Stefan Heym west-germany kind people When I come to a new city is I combine: I say, well, it's like Barcelona and Edinburgh, though I can't imagine what that would be. But Toronto, the last few times I've been here, what always comes up is Chicago and West Berlin. It's a big, sprawling city beside a lake, of a certain age and a certain architectural complexity. But the high-end retail core looks more like West Germany than the Magnificent Mile. Yonge Street is like K-Damm. There's an excess of surface marble and bronze: it's Germanic and as pretentious as pretentious can be. William Gibson west-germany cities lakes