Rebuilding Quotes - Page 5

• Donald Trump has made it clear, he wants to make a priority of national security, rebuilding our military, but he wants to do it in a fiscally responsible way.

  Mike Pence

  Military, Priorities, Want

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• Detroit right now is virtually abandoned at its core to the degree that a lot of what had been slums thirty years ago are now wildflower meadows. The rebuilding of Detroit will occur a much smaller scale. It remains to be seen what will become of Detroit's vast suburbs.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Years, Degrees, Wildflowers

  Source: www.treehugger.com

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• A great deal remains to be done in Afghanistan and the jury is out as to whether the international community has the commitment and the patience to see the rebuilding process through.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Commitment, Community, Done

  Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November, 2003.

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• As Commander in Chief, I will maintain the strongest military in the world, keep faith with our troops and go after those who would do us harm. But after a decade of war, I think we all recognize we've got to do some nation building here at home, rebuilding our roads, our bridges and especially caring for our Veterans who sacrificed so much for our freedom.

  Barack Obama

  Military, War, Home

  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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• In Afghanistan you are not rebuilding, you are building. There is very limited infrastructure and extreme terrain, with deserts in the south and mountains so high in some areas that helicopters don't even fly well at a certain altitude because the air becomes so thin. The country has a serious problem of illiteracy, especially after so many years of war and Taliban rule.

  David Petraeus

  Country, War, Years

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• After pregnancy, the important thing is rebuilding your back muscles.

  Natalia Vodianova

  Pregnancy, Important, Muscles

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I wish that after the war against Saddam Hussein we had been more effective at rebuilding Iraq quickly. I think had we done it from the provinces, in, rather than from Baghdad, out, we might have been more successful.

  Condoleezza Rice

  War, Successful, Thinking

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• There is plenty of work to do, but big business isn't investing in rebuilding a green economy for the 21st century. Instead, they put their money into a gigantic financial casino, and when that led to catastrophe in 2008-9, they made us pay for it.

  Kshama Sawant

  Investing, Green, Casinos

  Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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• We will have a peace dividend to spend on rebuilding America, beginning with our American inner cities. We're going to rebuild them, for once and for all.

  Donald Trump

  Cities, America, Dividends

  "Transcript of Donald Trump’s Immigration Speech". www.nytimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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• Accomplishing this missile rebuild and our military retooling will be a 50-state effort. Every state in the union will be able to take part in rebuilding our military and developing technologies of tomorrow. In other words, the workers and the jobs will take place throughout the United States.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Military, Technology

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The American people want to see our nation standing tall on the world stage again. They want to see us supporting our military, rebuilding our military, commanding the respect of the world, and they want to see the American economy off to the races again.

  Mike Pence

  Military, Race, People

  Source: www.politico.com

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• We've got to get back to rebuilding the middle class, the families of America. That's where growth will come from.

  Hillary Clinton

  Class, America, Growth

  The third presidential debate between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• She knew he was angry, but she couldn't stop laughing. "Forgive me, Po. I was only trying to get your attention." "And I suppose it never occurs to you to start small. If I told you my roof needed rebuilding, you'd start by knocking down the house.

  Kristin Cashore

  Laughing, Forgive Me, House

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.187, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Iraq at one time was actually a functioning government. It's a real state. Afghanistan is not Iraq. It's tribal. It's got a different - a number of different sects, never really had a solid government there running the country on any kind of a continuing basis. Well, to rebuild the nation of Afghanistan is going to be more difficult than rebuilding the nation of Iraq.

  Dan Quayle

  Running, Country, Real

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• We invest in early childhood education. We invest additional job training dollars. We make sure that we've got a strong research and development strategy so that we continue to innovate. Rebuilding our infrastructure, which we know will attract businesses.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Jobs, Research And Development

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• ... most Southerners of my parents' era were raised to feel that it wasn't respectable to be rich. We felt that all patriotic Southerners had lost everything in defense of the South, and sufficient time hadn't elapsed for respectable rebuilding of financial security in a war- impoverished region.

  Sarah-Patton Boyle

  War, Patriotic, Parent

  Sarah-Patton Boyle, Jennifer Lynn Ritterhouse (1962). “The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian's Stand in Time of Transition”, p.6, University of Virginia Press

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• We need to spend a trillion dollars rebuilding our schools, our roads, our basic science and research here in the United States.

  Barack Obama

  School, Science, Research

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• Let us bequeath our children more than the gadgets that surround us. If bicycling can be restored to the daily life of all Americans, it can be a vital step toward rebuilding health and vigor in all of us.

  Paul Dudley White

  Children, Vigor, Gadgets

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• The Black public sector middle class teachers, policeman, firemen, and post office workers, those jobs have been on the decline but there hasn't been a corresponding increase in the private sector. What is especially painful is government policy bailed out the banks without making them make reinvestments for rebuilding. The result is 53-million Americans are food insecure, 50-million Americans are in poverty, 44 million are on food stamps, 26 million are looking for a job.

  Jesse Jackson

  Teacher, Jobs, Insecure

  Source: praisecharlotte.hellobeautiful.com

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• I think all of our guys work hard and want to improve. They want answers, and the film will be the answer. The coaches will collect it and get better. I do not think anybody wants a rebuilding year. That's not something that I have ever said.

  Les Miles

  Hard Work, Thinking, Lsu

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• We suggest that in the next decades fisheries management will have to emphasize the rebuilding of fish populations embedded within functional food webs, within large 'no-take' marine protected areas.

  Daniel Pauly

  Marine, Lakes, Sea

  Daniel Pauly (2010). “5 Easy Pieces: The Impact of Fisheries on Marine Ecosystems”, p.45, Island Press

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• I've ordered plans to begin for the massive rebuilding of the United States military. Had great support from the Senate. I've had great support from congress, generally. We've pursued this rebuilding in the hopes that we will never have to use this military.

  Donald Trump

  Military, Support, United States

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Making the future and the road to the future wealth lies in the youth of the present and future, and rebuilding the nation's institutions based on knowledgeable scientific foundations that require promising human capacities derived from college graduates. Universities are the makers of men, we are proud of their role and of the efforts of their administrators.

  Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

  Lying, Men, College

  Speech at the First Scientific Conference of the Faculty of Commerce - Islamic University of Gaza, May 08, 2005.

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• Under extremely difficult circumstances (Iraq) pursues the inherently complicated task of rebuilding the country. Yet Iraq continues, courageously, to reach for the promise of a democratic, federal and pluralistic state, where generations of oppressed Iraqis will regain their dignity, freedom and the right to join the civilized and progressive nations of the world.

  Jalal Talabani

  Country, Iraq, Promise

  "Keep U.S., British forces in Iraq, says Talabani". The Toronto Star, September 23, 2006.

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