Nation Building Quotes - Page 2

• As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.

  Ron Paul

  Country, Years, World

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• I have seen people wanting to devote their time & energy to nation building. All they need is an opportunity. 'MyGov' is that opportunity!

  Narendra Modi

  Opportunity, People, Needs

  Twitter post from Jul 26, 2014

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• Part of American leadership is making sure that we're doing nation building here at home. That will help us maintain the kind of American leadership that we need.

  Barack Obama

  Home, Needs, Helping

  Source: genius.com

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• One of the challenges over the last decade is America has done experiments in nation building in places like Iraq and Afghanistan and we've neglected, for example, developing our own economy, our own energy sectors, our own education system. And it's very hard for us to project leadership around the world when we're not doing what we need to do.

  Barack Obama

  Iraq, America, Challenges

  Source: genius.com

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• I think the American people recognize is after a decade of war it's time to do some nation building here at home. And what we can now do is free up some resources, to, for example, put Americans back to work, especially our veterans, rebuilding our roads, our bridges, our schools, making sure that, you know, our veterans are getting the care that they need when it comes to post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, making sure that the certifications that they need for good jobs of the future are in place.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, War, Stress

  Source: genius.com

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• When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.

  Al Franken

  President, Campaigns, Comedy

  "If Clark is Schwarzenegger, who is Huffington?" by John Mercurio, www.cnn.com. September 25, 2003.

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• I think the problem with John Bolton is he disagrees with President Trump's foreign policy. He would be closer to John McCain's foreign policy. John Bolton still believes the Iraq war was a good idea. He still believes that regime change is a good idea. He still believes that nation-building is a good idea.

  Rand Paul

  War, Believe, Thinking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• We should be building a nation and it should be called the United States of America. We are spending all our money nation-building in other places and they don't even want us.

  Donald Trump

  America, Want, United States

  Source: www.economist.com

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• Afghanistan would have been difficult enough without Iraq. Iraq made it impossible. The argument that had we just focused on Afghanistan we'd now be okay is persuasive, but it omits the fact that we weren't supposed to get involved in nation-building in Afghanistan.

  Michael Hastings

  Iraq, Facts, Impossible

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution.

  Ron Paul

  Father, Humble, Winning

  The Republicans' First Presidential Candidates Debate, www.nytimes.com. May 3, 2007.

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• In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself.

  Ron Paul

  War, Support, Hussein

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• President Obama and Democrats won a mandate to move us forward with jobs, healthcare reform, equality, and nation building here at home.

  Christine Pelosi

  Jobs, Moving, Home

  "President Obama and Democrats Won Embracing Demography as Destiny" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

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• Bush humble foreign policy was hijacked into nation-building.

  Ron Paul

  Humble, Building, Foreign Policy

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• I don't think our troops ought to be used for what's called nation building.

  George W. Bush

  War, Thinking, Troops

  Presidential Debate in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, October 11, 2000.

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• America does not need to continue to have regime change throughout the world, nation-building.

  Rand Paul

  America, Doe, Needs

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters are of that.

  Lamar Alexander

  War, Iraq, Numbers

  "News From CNN" with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. November 16, 2004.

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