Rebuilding Quotes - Page 3

• I will spend the next four years rebuilding the foundation of a opportunity society led by free people and free enterprises.

  Mitt Romney

  Opportunity, Years, People

  Interview with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. April 8, 2012.

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• All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

  Abdul Kalam

  War, Needs, Conflict

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• They asked him for help rebuilding the farm, but e only shook his head with a pang of longing in his heart. I'm tracking your killers",he whispered to his uncle.-Eragon

  Christopher Paolini

  Uncles, Heart, Killers

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• We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Jobs, Community, Development

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• I'm interested in taking a form, breaking it apart, and then rebuilding it. It is about transformation for me...it is a very core notion that stabilizes my practice.

  Shahzia Sikander

  Practice, Transformation, Notion

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• And if citizens of New Orleans who are really contemplating coming back heard that we're really intent upon making the place secure again - regardless of whether the levees held or not - then I think a rebuilding process would really take shape.

  Billy Tauzin

  Thinking, New Orleans, Citizens

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• I explained we lost the porch to the flood. Father hasn't gotten around to rebuilding it, although he's quite a good carpenter. He says if Jesus was a carpenter, its good enough for a clergyman. But I don't remember that Jesus let his house fall down.

  Franny Billingsley

  Jesus, Father, Fall

  Franny Billingsley (2011). “Chime”, p.20, Penguin

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• Protecting dozens of major coastal cities from future flooding will be challenging enough-rebuilding major coastal cities destroyed by super-hurricanes will be an almost impossible task.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Cities, Weather, Challenges

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• If Washington continues to fumble issues like taking care of the debt, getting the troops home, and rebuilding our economy, my wife and I may sit down and say, 'These are critical things and maybe we need to get back in the ball.

  Joe Scarborough

  Home, Issues, Wife

  "Joe Scarborough: I Might Run For Office Again", www.huffingtonpost.com. December 30, 2010.

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• This - the leadership of the mayor is crucial, because it is to the mayor that people will look to provide the vision, the energy, and the sense of confidence in the rebuilding and the recovery.

  Marc Morial

  Confidence, Recovery, People

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• STAR WARS is really three trilogies, nine films. The first trilogy covers the fall of the Republic and the rise of the Empire, the middle trilogy the fall of the Empire, and the last trilogy involves the rebuilding of the Republic. It won't be finished for probably another 20 years.

  George Lucas

  Stars, War, Fall

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• For next several years PSU can focus on rebuilding its athletic culture, not worrying about whether it's going to a bowl game.

  Mark Emmert

  Years, Games, Worry

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• We didn't start this war - the right wing did. We're tired of seeing good-paying jobs shipped overseas. This fight is about the economy, it's about jobs and it's about rebuilding America.

  James P. Hoffa

  Jobs, War, Tired

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• The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

  Richard Whately

  Abuse, Revolution, Improvement

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.71

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• I believe that our message of rebuilding America is one that will resonate with the American people.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Believe, America, People

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• We urgently need a paradigm shift in our concept of the purposes and practices of education. We need to leave behind the concept of education as a passport to more money and higher status in the future and replace it with a concept of education as an ongoing process that enlists the tremendous energies and creativity of schoolchildren in rebuilding and respiriting our communities and our cities now, in the present.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Creativity, Practice, Cities

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• Overall, the work of rebuilding and transforming government for the digital age is only just beginning. Governments remain organized according to political and bureaucratic imperatives, not according to what makes the most sense to citizens.

  Andrew Leigh

  Government, Political, Age

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• New Orleans has to learn to live with water rather than in fear of water, and we need a master plan that shows us how to do this. It's so critical that we send a signal to everyone in the country that we're serious about rebuilding New Orleans.

  Billy Tauzin

  Country, New Orleans, Water

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• I think the truth is that the Labour Party isn't believed any more because people suspect it will say anything to get votes. The rebuilding of some radical alternatives to Thatcherism - and by that I mean all-party Thatcherism - will require us to do some very difficult things

  Tony Benn

  Party, Mean, Thinking

  Tony Benn (1990). “The end of an era: diaries, 1980-90”, Vintage

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• The pubic bones (seen on x ray) are now well defined and represent a remarkable rebuilding of bone and halting of the cancer process. The ischium are also reforming and the illi (hip bones) likewise show diminution of bone lysis. No sane, honest physician could call this a "spontaneous remission."

  Robert Willner

  Cancer, Hips, Rays

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• Despite the negativity coming from the President's opponents, the United States remains fully committed to assisting the Iraqis in restoring security and rebuilding their nation.

  Craig L. Thomas

  Hype, Negativity, President

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• Trust me, I'm going to find out where the money has gone and how it has been spent, and see if we can't get it down there quicker to let that rebuilding start.

  Lynn Westmoreland

  Money, Gone, Trust Me

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• Iraq has stockpiled biological and chemical weapons, and is rebuilding the facilities used to make more of those weapons.

  George W. Bush

  Iraq, Fields, Doe

  "President: Iraqi Regime Danger to America is 'Grave and Growing'". Radio Address, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. October 5, 2002.

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• I've never said that troops should be withdrawn. What I've said is, is that we've got to make sure that we secure and execute the rebuilding and reconstruction process effectively and properly, and I don't think we should have an artificial deadline when to do that.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Should Have, Iraq

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• I support a very active programme on disarmament and arms control for Iraq, and of course every other country in the world... That does not require economic sanctions...I think we've got to take the risk and give up economic sanctions while hanging on to the disarmament programme and allow the Iraqis to get on with rebuilding their country.

  Denis Halliday

  Country, Giving Up, Thinking

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