David Blunkett Quotes

Smart, sustainable, inclusive growth is the key to job-creation and the future prosperity of Europe.

People want development. Not everyone knows what it means. Same as jobs. Not everyone knows what a job is, but people want jobs.

Most people recognize that to create jobs is really the essential element in their drive against poverty.

Jobs are the main channel through which people share in - or are left out of - economic growth.

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.

To create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments.

It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.

That is now my mission: to provide a European vision of growth, employment, prosperity - in one word, our future.

And as we work together, we will build a better America! As we work together, we will bring the middle class to thrive again! As we work together, we will make sure that everybody has the ladder of opportunity to climb!

We provide our citizens upward mobility through economic opportunity.

Working together, we will continue to lay the foundation for a new generation of inclusive economic growth, expand economic opportunity for middle-class families, and ensure that innovative businesses have the support they need to thrive and grow in the years to come.

We need economic growth, yes, but growth can be jobless, so a sustainable development framework for employment must include a job creation strategy.

A job is the best cure for poverty, and that's why economic development and job creation has been my principle focus.

Infrastructure is the backbone of economic growth. It improves access to basic services such as clean water and electricity, creates jobs and boosts business.

Africa's vibrancy and entrepreneurial spirit is un-matched. There's huge potential here to grow business, create jobs, and to improve living standards.

We want to make Uttar Pradesh the most developed state in the country.

We've got enormous potential, phenomenal potential on our doorstep, which requires politics that makes that work, and that's what we try to show here in Ireland: that while there's a lot of pain, the reward at the end of this is career opportunities, prosperity, and brighter days for everybody.

Our Vision 2030 remains the blueprint for inclusive growth, social cohesion, and prosperity for all. Under this plan, we will continue to develop skills that can help our country realise its developmental goals and address labour market issues.

If you're going to grow the economy, if people are going to have more income, you have to have stability in the marketplace.

The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries.

To have a stable economy, to have a stable democracy, and to have a modern government is not enough. We have to build new pillars of development. Education, science and technology, innovation and entrepreneurship, and more equality.

It wasn't simply that Clinton created the greatest prosperity in the country's history. Or that we created 22 million new jobs, more than ever before. Under Clinton, poverty was reduced 25%.

If you want a more productive economy, you need to invest in the skills of our workforce.

People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is that India's economy continues to grow at clipping pace, 8% and above, that itself brings host of benefits to the people. It brings better roads, it brings better schools, brings more money to the communities, it brings more jobs.

We choose forward. We choose inclusion. We choose growing together. We choose American economic might and muscle, standing strong on the bedrock of the American ideal: a strong, empowered and ever-growing middle class.