Bill Gates Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world.

  Bill Gates

  Country, World, Poor

  "Against Excellence" by Jack Stilgoe, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2014.

• If you rely too much on the people in other countries and other companies, in a sense that's your brain and you are outsourcing your brain.

  Bill Gates

  Country, People, Brain

• Making sure all our students get a great education, find a career that's fulfilling and rewarding, and have a chance to live out their dreams ... wouldn't just make us a more successful country - it would also make us a more fair and just one.

  Bill Gates

  Education, Dream, Country

• If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Peace, Children

• In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?

  Bill Gates

  Country, Government, Vaccines

• With the states release today of a set of clear and consistent academic standards, our nation is one step closer to supporting effective teaching in every classroom, charting a path to college and careers for all students, and developing the tools to help all children stay motivated and engaged in their own education. The more states that adopt these college and career based standards, the closer we will be to sharing innovation across state borders and becoming more competitive as a country.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Children, Educational

• I do think this next century, hopefully, will be about a more global view. Where you don't just think, 'Yes, my country is doing well,' but you think about the world at large.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Leadership, Country

• The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Believe, Fighting

  "Why the Global Fund Is a Terrific Investment" by Bill Gates, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2013.

• In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Income, Disease

  "Bill Gates: ‘Death is something we really understand extremely well’". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. May 17, 2013.

• Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Zero, Average

  "Innovating to zero!". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2010.

• Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Rich Countries, Rich

  "Q&A: Bill Gates on the World's Energy Crisis". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. June 20, 2011.

• Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Growing Up, Talking

• This is not about trade, no one is a stronger supporter of capitalism and trade than I am. This is about sovereignty and whether a country has the right to set its own public health policies.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Health, Stronger

• Over time, yes, countries will need to look at specific GMO products like they look at drugs today, where they don't approve them all. They look hard at the safety and the testing. And they make sure that the benefits far outweigh any of the downsides.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Gmos, Safety

• The US spends more on energy R&D than all other countries put together, and I personally consider it quite inadequate. In fact, I would have said we should more than double it, if I thought the absorptive capacity could scale up and if it was actually possible to get to that level.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Together, Energy

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

• If we think long term, the younger generation here is better about embracing the world. Not seeing countries boundaries kind of an "us versus them" thing.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

• Thanks to quality education, Israel is one of the most advanced countries in the world .. Israel is advancing in high-tech even more than other developed countries.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Israel, Quality

  "Technology's Promise Land". www.foxnews.com. November 14, 2003.

• In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Low Income, Lows

  "Wonkblog Bill Gates: ‘Death is something we really understand extremely well’". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. May 17, 2013.

• Anyway, the US, as in most issues, is the best, has the best capability to lead, and really needs to lead. It doesn't [mean] that other countries won't pick different tacks and emphasize different things. In aggregate, they're almost half of the energy R&D. Europe, China, Japan - it's very important that they come along and contribute to these things.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Mean, Japan

  "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.

• I am surprised that in various countries, whether it's the U.K. or the U.S., you see isolationist tendencies that would tend to work against the co-operation, whether it's climate change, immigration, innovation, helping the very poorest. Those are things where you want to think across country boundaries and see a win-win-type solution.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Winning, Thinking

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

• Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it's aid-neutral.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Korea, Generations

• We [US] are the biggest per person, by a substantial amount, greenhouse emitters, and we give the most foreign aid, not per person but in absolute. This is another issue where hopefully we will take a long-term approach which, even though we sometimes have a hard time doing that, it's easier for us, as a rich country with this kind of scientific depth, than it is for the poor countries who will suffer the problems.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Hard Times, Rich Countries

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• Hopefully, whether it's energy or child vaccines, the case of the many benefits helping countries so that they are stable, so these refugee problems that have been troubling for Europe - a little less so for the U.S. but, even so, a lot of controversy there - these things are why the future's going to be better than the past. People really do look to the United States, so we'll be there making the case.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Children, Past

  Source: www.geekwire.com

• Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs.

  Bill Gates

  Running, Country, Poor

  "Bill Gates: ‘Death is something we really understand extremely well’". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. May 17, 2013.

• I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I'm not an expert on how you get out of those things.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Children, War

  "Bill Gates Reveals Family Goes to Catholic Church: 'It Makes Sense to Believe in God'" by Stoyan Zaimov, www.christianpost.com. March 14, 2014.

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