It takes time to develop a system of law and order …. In 1960, when the Congo got its independence, we had less than ten college graduates.
Not all countries are ready for it [democracy].
One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.
We in Congress have the money but we don’t have the expertise.
If you put too much aid too quickly into weak institutions, you have corruption and failure.
France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions.
We have to build the capacity of our institutions, employees and workers. Our regulatory environment has not been encouraging to research, innovation and enterprise.
The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.
You need to look at Congress as having a certain capacity. Now, the capacity varies from year to year and from body to body, but there is a finite amount of things that Congress can attentively do.
We both got caught on making a bureaucracy work on things that were much bigger than that which they had ever worked on.
As we go on with our lives we tend to forget that the jails and the hospitals and the madhouses and the graveyards are packed.
And judging what is appropriate or not appropriate for a country, I think it is important in particular in judging what is the appropriate economic policy framework, one should take into account the overall political environment and the institutional framework within which economic policy operates.
Liberia just needs to go through this one political transition and it can really take off. Everything's in place now. We cannot afford to put the country in the hands of someone that lacks the experience.
There is a clear business case for building the resilience and capacity of local communities, businesses, and institutions because a peaceful, educated, and productive population will stimulate economic growth in the long term.
The Pakistani government and its allies must overhaul their policies in Pakistan.
We have to build the capacity of our institutions, employees and workers.
Two days later, two days before Christmas, I am judged fat and sane enough to be kicked out of the hospital. The plan to send me straight back to New Seasons won't work. There is no room at the inn for a leather Lia-skin plumped full of messy things. Not yet. The director promises Dr. Marrigan he'll have a bed for me next week. I'm stable enough to go home until then. They all say I'm stable.
