Economic Development Quotes - Page 2

• But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Nature, Men, Law

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• I was criticized at some level within the Republican Party by those who say government should not be in the economic development business at all. My response is that the only country I know that doesn't have an economic development plan is Papa New Guinea.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Country, Party, Government

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• Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.

  Barry Commoner

  Technology, Development, Prevention

  Interview with Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs.

  Stephen Harper

  Country, Government, Trying

  Debates (Hansard) No. 68 - House of Commons of Canada, www.ourcommons.ca. June 4, 2009.

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• Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars people needed right away.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Talking, People, Dollars

  "Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World’s Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case". Interview with Linda O’Bryon, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. March 9, 2005.

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• While I believe our Constitution allows for State and local governments to execute the power of eminent domain for those purposes that specifically serve the public good, condemning property solely to implement economic development plans is not serving the public good.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Believe, Government, Eminent Domain

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• We were also able to do a great deal of work to improve highways, airports and airways, waterways, and railways, all of which are important and have provided a better quality of life and economic development opportunities for my constituents.

  Nick Lampson

  Opportunity, Airports, Important

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• The WTO has one of the most impressive records in global economic governance, by promoting trade liberalisation and economic development.

  Anna Lindh

  Records, Development, Economic

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• I think you'd change Alabama fundamentally if in six years someone said, 'If you want the best education in America, you've got to live in Alabama.' you'd change economic development, change the image of this state, you'd offer these kids an opportunity they otherwise would never have had.

  Bob Riley

  Change, Kids, Opportunity

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• We have new developing ties with Japan whom always supports our democratic process and economic development.

  Ali Abdullah Saleh

  Japan, Ties, Support

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• The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development.

  William C. Kirby

  Successful, Government, Political

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• Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Islam, Development, Dry

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• I want to be remembered as someone who put India on the scientific map of the world in terms of large innovation. I want to be remembered for making a difference to global healthcare. And I want to be remembered as someone who did make a difference to social economic development in India.

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

  Differences, Entrepreneur, Innovation

  "$800 million biotech business started in a garage" by Becky Anderson, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2012.

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• This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history.

  Christiana Figueres

  Firsts, Tasks, Development

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• Enterprise Washington is economic development in areas of high unemployment around the state of Washington.

  Mike Lowry

  Unemployment, Development, Economic

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• In a society of little economic development, universal inactivity accompanies universal poverty. You survive not by struggling against nature, or by increasing production, or by relentless labor; instead you survive by expending as little energy as possible, by striving constantly to achieve a state of immobility.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Struggle, Energy, Development

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• Production functions involving only land, labor and capital... never work and never explain economic development.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Land, Development, Economic

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• I am here because libraries and museums are singular and important institutions with unique contributions to make to our nation. But more importantly, I am here as an advocate for children and families, for healthy communities, for economic development, for scholars and researchers, for individuals who seek educational and informational resources throughout their lives.

  Robert Cecil Martin

  Children, Educational, Unique

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• In a perfect world what poor countries at the lowest rungs of economic development need is not a multi-party democracy, but in fact a decisive benevolent dictator to push through the reforms required to get the economy moving

  Dambisa Moyo

  Country, Party, Moving

  Dambisa Moyo (2009). “Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa”, p.43, Macmillan

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• The surest path to safe streets and peaceful communities is not more police and prisons, but ecologically sounds economic development. And that same path can lift us to a new, green economy - one with the power to lift people out of poverty while respecting and repairing the environment.

  Van Jones

  People, Community, Police

  Van Jones (2008). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, HarperOne

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• As a conservative, I maintain a healthy skepticism of the theory of man-made global warming. I also believe that more people enjoying the fruits of modernity and economic development is a good thing - as long as those people arrived legally and obey the law.

  Gary Bauer

  Believe, Men, Law

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• The solution is to first create an integrated economic development and recreation plan that addresses the needs of the people who live and recreate in central Idaho.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Idaho, People, Needs

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• The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent.

  Mahnaz Afkhami

  Equality, Rights, Connections

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• Economic development is what's going to make mountaintop removal palatable.

  Joe Manchin

  Development, Economic, Removal

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• We have lots of studies about what's wrong with our education system. We need to accept responsibility, be bold, find solutions and move forward to make education a centerpiece of our economic development.

  Christine Gregoire

  Moving, Responsibility, Needs

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