National Goals Quotes

Strengthening the system and spirit of cooperative federalism, my government is taking the states along to achieve national goals.

Our national aims can be realized only by military means. The matter needs no further elaboration or interpretation.

Only by a process of peaceful evolution can China accomplish its own goals of being a free, prosperous, and strong country.

We have no intention of downsizing the American Dream.

I ask myself where Germany stands today and where it wants to go.

Citizen statesmanship recognizes legitimate local or special needs, but it places the national interest first.

I think that all countries that participate in multilateral institutions see the institutions as a way of advancing what they view as their national interests and they see in many cases multi-lateral institution as the best way to do that.

I can tell you what I'm driven by. I'm driven by what's in Israel's interest.

A nation has to look ahead.

Luxembourg's aims is to be in the top 10 space-faring nations in the world.

Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.

Like myself, all Americans have a deep concern for the well-being of Iran. With them I have watched closely your courageous efforts, your steadfastness over the past difficult years, and with them I too have hoped that you might achieve the goals you so earnestly desire. The attainment of an oil settlement along the lines which have been announced should be a significant step in the direction of the realization of your aspirations for your people.

Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.

Conquest or superiority among other powers is not or ought not ever to be the object of republican systems.

Nations are not truly great solely because the individuals composing them are numerous, free, and active; but they are great when these numbers, this freedom, and this activity are employed in the service of an ideal higher than that of an ordinary man, taken by himself.

The function of government is to direct the physical and moral powers of the nation toward the end for which the commonwealth has come into being.

We shouldn't be thinking about individuals or departments. We should be thinking about national interest. Lifting the standard of Pakistan squash is like working towards national interest.

There's a lack of ambition in politics in terms of what we expect from the government, what it means to have a state.

The American people want their presidents to articulate big ideas and leave the details to the eggheads.

The national interest is not simply the sum of our special interests and attachments.

The entire purpose of the State of the Union Address is for the president to outline where we stand as a nation.

Every nation has a vision it lives for and is prepared to make all sacrifices. One may call it National purpose, … It is something which does not change. If it changes, a nation dies. It is supreme and therefore the nation acts and reacts with the limits laid down by it. It is the vision which allows a nation to build its future.

We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.

Essential to the attainment of these national goals is the moral imperative of ensuring social justice and respect for human dignity. The great biblical tradition enjoins on all peoples the duty to hear the voice of the poor. It bids us to break the bonds of injustice and oppression which give rise to glaring, and indeed, scandalous social inequalities. Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart.

You must lay out of vision of what you want for the country. There is no more important thing.