Challenges We Face Quotes - Page 2

• I believe our legacy will be defined by the accomplishments and fearless nature by which our daughters and sons take on the global challenges we face. I also wonder if perhaps the most lasting expression of one's humility lies in our ability to foster and mentor our children.

  Naveen Jain

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• I am convinced that whenever we exaggerate or demonize, oversimplify or overstate our case, we lose. Whenever we dumb down the political debate, we lose. For it's precisely the pursuit of ideological purity, the rigid orthodoxy and the sheer predictability of our current political debate, that keeps us from finding new ways to meet the challenges we face.

  Barack Obama

  Political, Dumb, Challenges

  Barack Obama (2006). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.31, Crown

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• Climate change...is, simply, the greatest collective challenge we face as a human family.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Challenges, Climate, Faces

  Ban Ki-moon's Remarks at 39th Plenary Assembly of the World Federation of United Nations Associations, www.un.org. August 10, 2009.

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• Our province needs united leadership and shared purpose in tackling the challenges we face.

  Jim Prentice

  Leadership, Challenges, Needs

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• What I know for sure is that all the sacrifice and challenges we face are worth it if we're creating a better future for our kids. I just think if the adults are always thinking about the world we want to leave for our kids, we're going to make the right choices every single time.

  Michelle Obama

  Kids, Sacrifice, Thinking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• An idea is only an idea if it causes unease, debate and reflection. By that standard, Thomas Homer-Dixon's concept of an 'ingenuity gap' is truly a new idea. I can think of no other new concept that so fully condenses all of the challenges we face as a human civilization than the 'ingenuity gap'. Homer-Dixon has found a way to unite all of our concerns about economics, war, population growth, complexity, etc. under a single heading. He is one of an elite group of academics who can write for a mass audience.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  War, Writing, Reflection

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• Education affects every major challenge we face in society. It creates economic growth, paves the way for peace and stability and helps erase the legacy of marginalization.

  Shakira

  Challenges, Growth, Legacy

  Source: www.americasquarterly.org

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• We've become so used to the concept as a measuring and sorting tool, that it and its correlates - below-average, above-average - are everyday speech. We don't even question the language, although the challenges we face require a different mindset.

  L. Todd Rose

  Average, Challenges, Everyday

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The ecological challenges we face are the result of billions of ecologically ignorant decisions made by billions of people over centuries. To address the climate crisis, we now need billions of people to make ecologically intelligent decisions.

  Allen Hershkowitz

  Intelligent, People, Decision

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• We need a great president who can lead us through the great challenges we face.

  James Robison

  Challenges, President, Needs

  Source: stream.org

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• Every time someone reads a story about the politics poisoning the global warming stuff it makes it feel like a political story, meaning it's Us and Them, instead of what it is: this profound challenge we face given our energy norms right now, the fuels of convenience toward something new. No matter what the politics are, it's still an enormous transformation that has to take place.

  Andrew Revkin

  Profound, Political, Challenges

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Difficulties are not interruptions to our journey; they are part of it, as if they're part of the weave of the cloth of our lives. They weave in and become an essential part of the whole. Because the more challenges we face, the more capable we realize we are and the less there is to fear.

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  Journey, Challenges, Essentials

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• People divide into groups where they talk to each other, but don't talk across the divide. And yet most of the challenges we face in the world today are challenges that are to do with trade, with technology, with how you make sure that people are properly educated, reform your health care system.

  Tony Blair

  Technology, People, Challenges

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I've met dedicated people from all sectors of society who are committed to giving children the tools they need for a better future. I'm always impressed by the passionate young leaders I meet. As the pace of change accelerates, so do the challenges we face. However, the chances to solve them increase too.

  Shakira

  Children, Giving, People

  Source: www.americasquarterly.org

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• I'm very realistic about the challenges we face. OK? I have seen it up close in 2010. It's why I ran for the Senate five years ago. I have only been there five years, but it's been enough time to know the damage Barack Obama has done to this country.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Years, Challenges

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The right way to proceed when we face the kind of challenges we face is to pursue the strategy which Ronald Reagan pursued when we faced the challenges of the last century.

  Mitt Romney

  Challenges, Way, Lasts

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• [Several candidates talked of problems with the federal Medicare system, particularly concerns about whether it would cover prescription drug costs in the future.] We're asking senior citizens to make a choice between their health and their income, ... Medicare is probably the most difficult challenge we face in the next century, because it has a lot to do with other things besides money.

  John McCain

  Senior, Choices, Challenges

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• The United States is at a critical juncture in time. Our government is riddled with historic debt, and the limited resources of philanthropic and non-profit efforts cannot meet the scale of social challenges we face with necessary force.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Government, Effort, Challenges

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• Perhaps because the challenges we face in our country are so daunting, we are also tempted by shortcuts. We tell ourselves that if we invent a new acronym, or write a new empowerment charter, we can avoid some of the back-breaking work that sustained progress requires

  Helen Zille

  Country, Writing, Challenges

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• When my parents were growing up the world's population was under three billion. During my children's lifetime, it is likely to exceed nine billion. You don't need to be an expert to realise that sustainable development is going to become the greatest challenge we face this century

  Tony Blair

  Children, Growing Up, Parent

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• Global warming is not only the number one environmental challenge we face today, but one of the most important issues facing all of humanity... We all have to do our part to raise awareness about global warming and the problems we as a people face in promoting a sustainable environmental future for our planet.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Numbers, Issues, People

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• Climate change is the biggest governing challenge we face. It's the biggest governing challenge I think we've ever faced.

  Chris Hayes

  Thinking, Challenges, Climate

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• We still have a great amount of work to do in social development, including resolving one of the biggest challenges we face in this area, namely, reducing the gap between high-income earners and people, citizens of our country, who are still living on very modest means indeed. But we cannot, of course, adopt the solution used 80 years ago and simply confiscate the riches of some to redistribute among others. We will use completely different means to resolve this problem, namely, we will ensure good economic growth.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Mean, Years

  Transcript of Press Conference with the Russian and Foreign Media, en.kremlin.ru. February 01, 2007.

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• If we are going to solve the challenges we face, you need a President who will pursue genuine solutions day in and day out. And that is my commitment to you. We need immigration reform that will secure our borders, and punish employers who exploit immigrant labor; reform that finally brings the 12 million people who are here illegally out of the shadows by requiring them to take steps to become legal citizens. We must assert our values and reconcile our principles as a nation of immigrants and a nation of laws. That is a priority I will pursue from my very first day.

  Barack Obama

  Commitment, Law, People

  Barack Obama's Remarks to NALEO, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 28, 2008.

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• China has really succeeded because of its stability.
  So my feeling is, how they are going to maintain this fantastic stability in a very fast changing economic situation.
  I think this is a challenge we face, how the global region will evolve in stability with such a fast growth.
  If they succeed to do that, no doubt, in the next generation it will be the major area of the world, economically.

  Bernard Arnault

  Inspirational, Change, Success

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