Country Development Quotes

When you introduce something new to a country, you want to do it right. Generally, that means you have to do it yourself.

To criticize one's country is to do it a service and to pay it a compliment. It is a service because it may spur the country to do better than it is doing; it is a compliment because it evidences a belief that the country can do better than it is doing.

We will work hard to ensure New Zealand is once again a world leader, a country we can all be proud of. We said we could do this; we will do this.

Construction is an important front for solidifying the foundations of a thriving country and creating bases for the people's happy life.

Today, being the biggest developing countries in the world, China and India are both committed to developing their economy and raising their people's living standards.

The way to help this country is to limit Republican power.

The economic development of the country must come first. Education and the raising of the standards of the people will follow. Afterwards political development may be possible.

If people are coming into the country to add an extra dimension, to bring skills and expertise with them, we have always been open to that.

In a progressive country change is constant;… change … is inevitable

I think the Netherlands will become one big city at a point. It is inevitable when you live in a country with so many people. You cannot afford to leave nature as it is. Some people believe that the dunes should be left in their original state, but I think it's strange to let things become how they were 500 years ago.

Any country is either becoming more democratic or less democratic. I think the United States hasn't tended to its journey toward democracy in a long time.

The reason I'm an American is for all the people in this country and recognizing that if business is thriving and growing, it will create more jobs, raise wages of our people, allow us to care for our seniors, get a better education for our kids, and allow us to have the kind of military that can defend American interests around the world.

It was a slow understanding that the lack of education in a country like Somalia creates these huge social problems.

Science and technology are a propellant for building a thriving country, and the happiness of the people and the future of the country hinge on their development.

If we're going to see sustainable results from all the other investments we're making in education, we need to build leadership capacity in each and every country.

We will learn together how to solve the problems of the country.

Take this question of the payment of taxes which seems uppermost in many people's minds. It is true that you may work twice as hard and that when your income is above a certain amount, you may retain for yourself a much smaller percentage of the fruits of your labor. Perhaps the day will come when the man who is paying a high income tax will say to himself: "This is proof of my patriotism. The measures which are supported by this money are what make my country a better place to live in. They insure to me and to my children a greater security under the form of government which I have chosen”.

Making these changes is a matter of life and death for our country, and it will give our people a chance to lead a better life.

Often, we take stability - peace in terms of security and economic activity - to mean a country is doing well. We forget the third and important pillar of rule of law and respect for human rights, because no country can long remain prosperous without that third pillar.

If our country is to advance, let it be upon the legs of lessons well-learned.

I have seen the face of this country change in 25 years or 30 years. I have seen a equalization begin to develop - in inheritance laws, tax laws, laws for favoring trade unions, protecting them, and so forth. All these are social changes.

If we want to be the leader of the world we have a unique responsibility to understand the problems of countries who cannot solve their own problems.

I'll bring the country - you know, we have the expression, "Make America Great Again". It's time to rebuild our country.

The presidency is not an office job. If I only sit in the office in Dar es Salaam, I’m not running the country. I visit the country to inspect development programs, to inspect activities, to see how things are going, how the government agenda is being implemented, what are the teething issues. And some of these problems simply need my simple word. My simple word of do it, then it is done.

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.