21st Century Quotes - Page 12

• The Europe we are in the process of building is the Europe of the 21st century; it's not the Europe of the 20th century.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  Europe, Building, Century

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• The Government's mission is to build a strong and fair Australia capable of meeting the new challenges of the 21st century.

  Kevin Rudd

  Strong, Government, Australia

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• China has lunged into the 21st century, while India is still lurching toward it.

  Steven Rattner

  India, China, Century

  "India Is Losing the Race" by Steven Rattner, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. January 19, 2013.

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• Nearly every problem has been solved by someone, somewhere. The challenge of the 21st century is to find out what works and scale it up.

  William J. Clinton

  Challenges, Problem, Century

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• We must now, in the 21st century, protect democracy, one which rests on fundamental rights for all, regardless of skin color, gender, race or religion. Nothing less than that is at stake.

  Martin Schulz

  Color, Rights, Race

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even more wrong to let him shape the landscape of the 21st century

  Lawrence Summers

  Europe, Would Be, Shapes

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• The 21st Century should be India's century but from 2004 to 2014 bad ideas and bad actions have affected the country adversely. Every day was a new bad day and there were new scandals. People were furious.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Bad Day, Ideas

  Source: www.deccanchronicle.com

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• I`ve said this when I pass the trade promotion authority law, which allows us to get trade agreements. If we write the rules of the global economy, we will succeed in the 21st century. But we have to write those rules, we have to engage, and I think the president [Donald Trump] said Trans-Pacific Partnership is not the way to do it.

  Paul Ryan

  Writing, Thinking, Agreement

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I offer a better way for America with ideas that actually work, a reformed tax code that rewards free enterprise instead of just enterprising lobbyists. A reformed health care system that operates by free choice instead of by force and doesn't leave you answering to cold, clueless bureaucrats. A commitment to a renewed commitment to building a 21st Century military and giving our veterans the care that they were promised and the care that they earned.

  Paul Ryan

  Military, Clueless, Commitment

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Malcolm X represents the cutting edge of a kind of critique of globalization in the 21st century. In fact, Malcolm, if anything, was far ahead of the curve in so many ways.

  Manning Marable

  Cutting, Curves, Facts

  Source: historynewsnetwork.org

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• On a transparency front, I would say that I certainly dream of a world in which our local, state, and national and international governments and other organizations have a 21st century, digital-era transparency built into them by default.

  Chelsea Manning

  Dream, Organization, Government

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We have to rethink how to teach financial education in the 21st century.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Financial Education, Century, Teach

  Source: www.bethkobliner.com

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• I actually haven't even found a curriculum in America that is really preparing people for this 21st century world.

  Alexis Ohanian

  America, People, World

  Source: www.fool.com

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• What the Japanese are, are the Americans of the 21st century. Essentially what is objectionable about them is what was objectionable about Americans when we had the ball. However, they are committed in a way that American technology is not.

  Howard Rheingold

  Technology, Balls, Way

  Source: medium.com

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• The way humanity manages or mismanages its nature-based assets, including pollinators, will in part define our collective future in the 21st century.

  Achim Steiner

  Humanity, Way, Century

  "Globalisation and agriculture industry exacerbating bee decline, says UN" by Fiona Harvey, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2011.

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• You just don't in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Fashion, Century

  "Kerry condemns Russia's 'incredible act of aggression' in Ukraine" by Will Dunham, www.reuters.com. March 2, 2014.

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• That's a chapter - the last chapter - of the 20th ... 20th ... the 21st century that most of us would rather forget. The last chapter of the 20th century. This is the first chapter of the 21st century.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Political, Lasts

  "Bush takes off the gloves as polls slide" by Toby Harnden, www.independent.ie. October 26, 2000.

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• Leadership has to be focused on some very radical ideas that only we as 21st Century people can talk about: making sure people have a livelihood, making sure people receive a living wage, making sure the environment, the Mother Earth, is embraced and cherished and not destroyed. Making sure people are healthy in what they eat, making sure we hold people and corporations accountable for the damage they do not only to our environment but to our institutions.

  Danny Glover

  Mother, Health, Ideas

  Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. March 31, 2001.

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• One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors speaking so many different languages and ferociously presenting all these different views. I thought, this is the 21st century and I want to be here!

  June Jordan

  Views, Color, Different

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• I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Death, Thinking, Museums

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• Let's not forget what the origin of the problem is. There is no place in modern Europe for ethnically pure states. That's a 19th century idea and we are trying to transition into the 21st century, and we are going to do it with multi-ethnic states.

  Wesley Clark

  War, Europe, Ideas

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• Minds are the real estate of the 21st century.

  Chuck D

  Real, Mind, Century

  Twitter post from Mar 13, 2016

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• I think that every individual is a microcosm of the culture that they're born into. They reflect the anxieties, insecurities, and strengths of that culture. I'm also American and I reflect on what it's like to be an American in the 21st century.

  Haroon Moghul

  Thinking, Anxiety, Insecurity

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The Republicans want to take us forward to the dark ages again ... when women were property that you could easily control, even trade if you wanted to. It's appalling we are having this debate in the 21st century.

  Frank Lautenberg

  Dark, Age, Want

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• As we think of power in the 21st century, we want to get away from the idea that power’s always zero sum — my gain is your loss and vice versa. Power can also be positive sum, where your gain can be my gain.

  Joseph Nye

  Zero, Motivation, Inspiration

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