Victor Ponta Quotes

Africa is the future.

If Dubai could be built over mere sand and is one of the richest countries in the world today - why not make the most of the country we've been blessed with?

Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of natural resources but lacks human resources.

You are a large country, you have many resources, and you have people who are highly capable.

I believe Mexico should dedicate 100% of its oil revenues to developing human capital and technological development. None of us politicians should be able to touch that money.

Your future is still before you. Your land is a vast storehouse of mineral and agricultural wealth awaiting further development for the benefit of mankind. It potentialities are magnificent.

Except for a few oil-rich countries, no developing country has successfully modernized without slowing population growth.

Every country has her own way of development.

Indonesia is rich in natural resources. Indonesia is rich in manpower with its 103 million inhabitants - not like Malaysia with its 10 million.

Our diversity as a people united is also our potential to transform our large deposits of mineral resources and use same for national development.

I have often said China is not lacking in material resources. The question is whether we can make full and good use of them.

The federal government's role is to establish a process whereby industry can pitch a project, and Canadians can be reassured that this project is worth the risk. That's at the heart of governments granting permits and communities granting permission. People understand we do need economic growth. We do need natural resource projects.

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

The Chinese economy has huge potential and flexibility.

Egypt has great potential because of the latent power of its human capital.

Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.

Openness has been vital to Asia's fast growth in the past and it will continue to be crucial for the area's further development.

We need to use all the resources at our disposal in order to prosper. We need more employment, and we need employment to be spread more fairly across society.

Canada has great natural resources, and its people have the spirit and ability to develop them.

I'm extremely positive about investment in Africa. Africa has a wonderful climate, wonderful people, and amazing possibilities. Africa has been called dark and hopeless, but today it is neither of these. Africa is awakening. It's a huge market of almost a billion people with huge resources and a young population. It's the best place to invest.

A nation’s success in the global economy is not determined by the quantity of its natural resources, but by the quality of its human resources.

As we double our numbers ... we must double our houses.

One problem in Africa has been a small population. And the natural resources were large. So you could be as foolish as possible. But you didn’t die. You just remained there eating mangoes and bananas. Now the population in Africa is growing. So the idea that you can go on with idiotic policies is not sustainable. Because a big population needs answers.

Energy is one of the worst bottlenecks in the development of industry and the national economy

Education is the foundation of social progress and economic development.