21st Century Quotes - Page 4

• The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.

  Gavin Newsom

  Safety, Focus, Eras

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• In the 19th century, we devoted our best minds to exploring nature. In the 20th century, we devoted ourselves to controlling and harnessing it. In the 21st century, we must devote ourselves to restoring it.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Rivers, Mind, Environmental

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• It's about how to bring together the seemingly contradictory aspects of the memorial, which is about a tragedy and how it changed the world, but also about creating a vital and beautiful city of the 21st century.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Beautiful, Cities, Creating

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• I would far rather over-estimate the threat [imposed by the Patriot Act] and be proven wrong than to underestimate the threat and wake up one morning in a world where the 21st century's J Edgar Hoover has the power to blackmail anyone in America.

  Tim Lee

  Morning, America, Wake Up

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• Tonight, I propose a 21st Century Crime Bill to deploy the latest technologies and tactics to make our communities even safer. Our balanced budget will help put up to 50,000 more police on the street in the areas hardest hit by crime, and then to equip them with new tools from crime-mapping computers to digital mug shots. We must break the deadly cycle of drugs and crime.

  William J. Clinton

  Technology, Community, Police

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• My goal in the new administration is to engage all of the stakeholders, everyone who can help us meet the challenges of the 21st century, and ensure that we work together.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Goal, Challenges, Working Together

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• The most valuable assets of a 20th-century company were its production equipment. The most valuable assets of a 21st-century institution, whether business or nonbusiness, will be its knowledge, workers, and their productivity.

  Peter Drucker

  Knowledge Workers, Century, Assets

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management Challenges for the 21st Century”, p.116, Routledge

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• In the 21st Century, the community of nations may see more and more of this very kind of threat that Iraq poses now - a rogue state with biological and chemical weapons. If we fail to respond, Saddam and all those who follow will believe that they can threaten the security of a vital region with impunity. But if we act now as one, we will send a clear message to would-be tyrants and terrorists that we will do what it takes to protect our security and our freedom in this new era.

  Sandy Berger

  Believe, Iraq, Tyrants

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• Jane Kindred’s THE HOUSE OF ARKHANGEL'SK dazzles with its surreal blending of worlds. Lost angel Anazakia, last survivor of her murdered family, finds herself in the hands of demons with suspect motives, betrayed by her own kind, stranded in the world of Man—21st century St. Petersburg, Russia, to be exact. Weaving startling visuals with compelling characters, Kindred reveals parallels in the two worlds that are ‘neither haphazard chance nor calculated design.’ It’s a dizzying, vibrant read.

  Lynn Flewelling

  Character, Angel, Men

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• I was not only the first woman to become secretary of state, I was the first [U.S.] secretary of state of the 21st century. I was the first secretary of state to own a Web site, to visit Internet cafes, and to make Internet access a part of policy.

  Madeleine Albright

  Internet Access, Cafes, Politics

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• And, granted, for a long time, the European has been dominant in certain parts of this Western Hemisphere, but by the end of the 21st century, it's over.

  Edward James Olmos

  Europe, Long, Hemisphere

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• Our campaign is powered by college students who are not about to let the first genocide of the 21st century happen on their watch.

  Ross Martin

  College, Firsts, Watches

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• The 19th century belonged to England, the 20th century belonged to the U.S., and the 21st century belongs to China. Invest accordingly.

  Warren Buffett

  England, Century, China

  "US will regain supremacy over next 40 years". www.abc.net.au. March 10, 2010.

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• For me, it's always very beautiful that you can do something today in the 21st century which is not an imitation but which has a connection to art which is 4,000 years old.

  Wolfgang Laib

  Beautiful, Art, Years

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• All-around 21st-century artist the great Kanye West at Design Miami/ Basel

  Simon de Pury

  Artist, Design, West

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• My mother has often said that the issue of women is the unfinished business of the 21st century. That is certainly true. But so, too, are the issues of LGBT rights the unfinished business of the 21st century.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Mother, Unfinished Business, Rights

  "Clinton: Gay marriage not the end" by Jose Delreal, www.politico.com. February 17, 2014.

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• Water is the sleeping giant issue of the 21st century and we all need to wake up about it.

  Robert Redford

  Sleep, Issues, Water

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• I was just like a 21st century person waiting to be born, and this is the medium that I thrive in. And I feel stronger now than I did any time since I've been a teenager - I mean, musically, creatively.

  Daryl Hall

  Teenager, Mean, Waiting

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• The Information Age is, first and foremost, an education age, in which education must start at birth and continue throughout a lifetime. Last year, from this podium, I said that education has to be our highest priority. I have something to say to every family listening to us tonight: Your children can go on to college.... Because of the things that have been done, we can make college as universal in the 21st century as high school is today. And, my friends, that will change the face and future of America.

  William J. Clinton

  Children, School, College

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• Thanks to the leadership of Vice President Gore, we have a government for the Information Age, once again a government that is a progressive instrument of the common good, rooted in our oldest values of opportunity, responsibility and community, devoted to fiscal responsibility, determined to give our people the tools they need to make the most of their own lives in the 21st century, a 21st century government for 21st century America.

  William J. Clinton

  Responsibility, Opportunity, America

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.62, Best Books on

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• What does it really mean to be a leftist in the early part of the 21st century? What are we really talking about? And I can just be very candid with you. It means to have a certain kind of temperament, to make certain kinds of political and ethical choices, and to exercise certain analytical focuses in targeting on the catastrophic and the monstrous, the scandalous, the traumatic, that are often hidden and concealed in the deodorized and manicured discourses of the mainstream. That's what it means to be a leftist. So let's just be clear about it.

  Cornel West

  Mean, Exercise, Talking

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• In terms of the class structure that you see so much in European portraiture, I don't think one feels that in America in the 21st century. But we have these other kinds of social structures now, like celebrity, who establish new hierarchies.

  Will Cotton

  Thinking, Class, America

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• It keeps startling me that at the beginning of this 21st century, at a time when we can . . . explore the depths of the seas and build an international space station, we have not been able to make childbirth safe for all women around the world. ... This is one of the greatest social causes of our time.

  Thoraya Obaid

  Sea, Space, Depth

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• In the 21st century, I think the heroes will be the people who will improve the quality of life, fight poverty and introduce more sustainability.

  Bertrand Piccard

  Hero, Fighting, Thinking

  "Adventurer sets sights on the sun for an 'impossible' dream". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. January 19, 2010.

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• We believe in the power of 21st-century international norms. Russian President Vladimir Putin believes in the power of lies and brute force, and implicitly asks, in the spirit of Josef Stalin, 'How many divisions do international norms have?'

  Rich Lowry

  Lying, Believe, President

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