I would not vote for the mayor. It’s not just because he didn’t invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.
Fidel CastroCountries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it’s aid-neutral.
Bill GatesCommunism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.
Frank ZappaImmaturity is the incapacity to use one’s intelligence without the guidance of another.
Immanuel KantIf there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
Nelson MandelaI have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.
Jurgen KloppThe Recovery Act is working, but it’s going to continue to work. It’s not over. A lot’s going to happen this summer. And even after the summer, there’s more to come with the act.
Joe BidenFrom the late 1940s, into and through the ’50s, there developed a complex interaction between federal government, state and local government, real-estate interests, commercial interests and court decisions, which had the effect of undermining the mass transit system across the country.
Noam ChomskyGod, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamI fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.
Russell M. NelsonWith the amount of fixed expense that goes into developing something like the BE-4 engine, you want it to be used as much as possible.
Jeff BezosThe highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.
Jordan PetersonThe welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
Thomas SowellAviation, this young modern giant, exemplifies the possible relationship of women and the creations of science. Although women have not taken full advantage of its use and benefits, air travel is as available to them as to men.
Amelia EarhartWe think that life develops spontaneously on Earth, so it must be possible for life to develop on suitable planets elsewhere in the universe. But we don’t know the probability that a planet develops life.
Stephen HawkingWhat charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.
Stephen KingAnyone that’s involved in development has discovered that all the good work that’s been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.
BonoAmerica makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.
E. E. CummingsI learned to walk as a baby, and I haven’t had a lesson since.
Marilyn MonroeFor my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.
Abraham LincolnBuilding new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.
Barack ObamaWe don’t seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
Will RogersIn Hollywood, a lot of times when something is in development, it just takes a lot of time.
Dwayne JohnsonIf you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?
Richard M. NixonIn order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.
Dalai LamaNo greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
EpictetusAn economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamAlthough modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Jean-Jacques RousseauLiberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
George WashingtonSocialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.
George Bernard ShawLike any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.
Bill GatesMuch of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us: housing, power, water and sanitation for all; bank accounts and insurance for every citizen; connected and prosperous villages; and, smart and sustainable cities.
Narendra ModiThe bottom line on the Hyde Amendment is that it is directly, in effect, targeting poor women and women who don’t have money.
Kamala HarrisWell, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you’re just going to keep buying and selling things until there’s nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.
Alice WalkerOf all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
James MadisonThe foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
DiogenesCapitalism has proven to be the only system that works, but the problem with capitalism is that extreme wealth ends up in the hands of a few people.
Richard BransonI don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.
Conor McGregorI took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.
Theodore RooseveltDevelopment of outlook naturally begins with a respect for God… Reverence to God and reverence for one’s neighbor and reverence for oneself as a servant of God.
Robert Baden-PowellYou know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerChildhood is the sleep of reason.
Jean-Jacques RousseauThe main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.
Vivienne WestwoodThe first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
George Bernard ShawI aspire my country eventually has a league where all players play 50 games.
Sunil ChhetriIt’s silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.
Ronald ReaganAnd the cornerstone of my economic policies, when I first got elected, was cutting taxes on everybody on who paid taxes.
George W. BushIt’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.
Frank OceanWhen schools flourish, all flourishes.
Martin LutherThe world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.
Florence NightingaleNature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheNothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.
Lou HoltzThe objective I propose is quite simple to state: to foster the infrastructure of democracy – the system of a free press, unions, political parties, universities – which allows a people to choose their own way to develop their own culture, to reconcile their own differences through peaceful means.
Ronald ReaganWhat does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?
George CarlinSwimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.
Robert Baden-PowellThe community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
William JamesEducation forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.
Alexander PopeI do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.
Franklin D. RooseveltThe press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
Friedrich NietzscheOur economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth’s treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.
Vivienne Westwood