Infrastructure Quotes - Page 4

• If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.

  Bart Gordon

  Country, Oil, Next

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• Dubai's world class physical infrastructure has already established it as a major player in terms of trade tourism and as the leading conference and exhibition venue in this part of the world.

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

  Player, Class, Dubai

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• Do we really think that the United States will have the protection of innocent Afghans in mind if it rains terror down on the Afghan infrastructure? We are supposedly fighting them because they immorally killed innocent civilians. That made them evil. If we do the same, are we any less immoral?

  George Lakoff

  Rain, Fighting, Thinking

  "Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate - The Essential Guide for Progressives". Book by George Lakoff, 2004.

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• I do believe that India needs a lot more foreign direct investment than we've got, and we should have the ambition to move in the same league many other countries in our neighborhood are moving. We may not be able to reach where the Chinese are today, but there is no reason why we should not think big about the role of foreign direct investment, particularly in the areas relating to infrastructure, where our needs for investment are very large. We need new initiatives, management skills, and I do believe that direct foreign investment can play a very important role.

  Manmohan Singh

  Country, Moving, Believe

  "PM's McKinsey Quarterly Interview". Interview with Rajat K. Gupta, archivepmo.nic.in. 2005.

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• China and Russia play very different roles. They both are getting involved across the world in all different pockets. Their tentacles are everywhere. Russia is doing it through elections and through military actions and through trying to get involved in conversations. China is doing it economically. If you look at their infrastructure, they are everywhere in the world now and they want to continue to do that so that they have a stronghold.

  Nikki Haley

  Military, Russia, Play

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• India is a huge democracy. Prime Minister [Narendra] Modi has ambitions to try to fix the infrastructure, the rules, taxes, education, and to lift up the Indian people. And we're hopeful that that's going to create positive momentum.

  Jamie Dimon

  Ambition, People, Hopeful

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• I want us to invest in your future. That means jobs in infrastructure, in advanced manufacturing, innovation and technology, clean, renewable energy, and small business, because most of the new jobs will come from small business.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Mean, Technology

  Transcript: First presidential debate at Hofstra University, www.cbsnews.com. September 27, 2016.

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• In New York, the impact of these concentrated superskyscrapers on street scale and sunlight, on the city's aniquated support systems, circulation, and infrastructure, on its already tenuous livability, overrides any aesthetic. ... Art becomes worthless in a city brutalized by overdevelopment.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Art, New York, Cities

  Ada Louise Huxtable (1984). “The tall building artistically reconsidered: the search for a skyscraper style”, Pantheon

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• We have very substantial weaknesses, including all vital infrastructures.

  Donald Trump

  Weakness, Including

  Donald Trump's remarks to a veterans group during a panel by the Retired American Warriors PAC in Herndon, Virginia, www.yahoo.com. October 4, 2016.

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• To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.

  Hans Rosling

  School, Opportunity, Rights

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• We have been getting ready to recycle more e-waste by investing in infrastructure, providing grants to local government and working with industry.

  Jay Weatherill

  Government, Investing, Waste

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• There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Believe, Technology, Opportunity

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

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• ...if we want to meet the obligations of our civilization and our culture which are to create communities for our children that provide them with the same opportunities for dignity and enrichment as the communities that our parents gave us, we've got to start by protecting that infrastructure; the air that we breathe, the water that we drink, the landscapes that enrich us.

  Robert Kennedy

  Children, Opportunity, Air

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• In every Indigenous community I've been in, they absolutely do want community infrastructure and they do want development, but they want it on their own terms. They want to be able to use their national resources and their assets in a way that protects and sustains them. Our territories are our wealth, the major assets we have. And Indigenous people use and steward this property so that they can achieve and maintain a livelihood, and achieve and maintain that same livelihood for future generations.

  Rebecca Adamson

  People, Community, Generations

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• My solutions are to include Africa in the global economy, and not African charity, AIDS research, but African infrastructure development. And I think that Africa can import and needs everything the whole world can manufacture. And they have got enough money to pay for it. It's just that the money is in the ground.

  Andrew Young

  Thinking, Needs, Research

  "Civil Rights Leader Andrew Young Shares Life Lessons With New Generation". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. December 14, 2010.

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• Cutting taxes is not bad. But if you cut taxes on the wealthy, which is what they wanted to do, you're not helping people who need better schools and better infrastructure and healthcare. You're basically robbing the middle class and the poor to provide tax cuts to the rich.

  Robert Reich

  School, Cutting, Class

  "American Experience", www.pbs.org.

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• A permanent and sustainable solution to all the problems facing working people is possible by taking the biggest companies into democratic ownership, and reorganizing the economy on a democratically planned basis. Under such a system we could democratically decide how to allocate resources. We could rapidly transition away from fossil fuels, develop massive jobs programs to rebuild the country's rotting infrastructure, and begin to build a whole new world based on meeting the needs of the majority, not the profits of a few.

  Kshama Sawant

  Country, Jobs, People

  Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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• Many communities throughout the nation still do not have the communications infrastructure in place for first responders to communicate with one another during an emergency.

  Susan Collins

  Communication, Community, Emergencies

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• Donald Trump is going to work on infrastructure, building the wall. He's going to farm leaders.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Wall, Leader, Building

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Important, Architecture

  "The NS Interview: Rem Koolhaas, architect". Interview with Samira Shackle, www.newstatesman.com. May 16, 2012.

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• Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Technology, Engineering, People

  Robert A. Heinlein (1985). “Job, a Comedy of Justice”, Del Rey

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• Letting the perfect be the enemy of the good is one of the reasons we have a coal-dependent infrastructure, with the resulting environmental impact that all of us can see. I suspect environmentalists, through their opposition of nuclear power, have caused more coal plants to be built than anybody. And those coal plants have emitted more radioactive material from the coal than any nuclear accident would have.

  Vinod Khosla

  Impact, Perfect, Enemy

  "Power Q&A: Vinod Khosla". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. April 21, 2008.

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• There are certain things that Americans expect their government to do. Our infrastructure is vitally important. Putting people back to work with construction is important. Our roads, our bridges, our sewers, our waterways, our dams - this is what makes our country so special.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Country, Government, Bridges

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• The distinction between the world of commerce and that of "culture" quickly became the distinction between infrastructure and superstructure, with the former clearly determining the latter.

  Allan Bloom

  Culture, World, Latter

  "Giants and Dwarfs". Book by Allan Bloom. Chapter: "Commerce and Culture," p. 281, 1990.

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• The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.

  Akbar Ganji

  Rights, Democracy, World

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