Quotes About National

We need to think about what Silicon Valley can contribute to the country - not just that somehow government bureaucrats should listen to our way.

The National Flood Insurance Program is a valuable tool in addressing the losses incurred throughout this country due to floods. It assures that businesses and families have access to affordable flood insurance that would not be available on the open market.

The concept of national treatment is a core component of investment and trade agreements. It promotes valuable competition on a level playing field. Investment treaties should not turn this idea on its head, giving privileges to foreign companies that are not available to domestic companies.

It has been a dream to play for India and above that when you are rewarded for being the most valuable player, you feel even more blessed.

The Pledge of Allegiance was founded on ideals of religious freedom, and has been a valuable part of our national life for generations.

Over the course of two years, we arrived at a point where we began to look at the value added by making information more easily accessible across the intelligence community, both defense and national.

It is hard to speak the truth about valued national institutions. But when they are not fit for purpose, we must speak out.

In effect, the Kutubu oil field functions as by far the largest and most rigorously controlled national park in Papua New Guinea.

Table 1.2. Factors related to the outcomes of national crises 1. National consensus that one's nation is in crisis 2. Acceptance of national responsibility to do something 3. Building a fence, to delineate the national problems needing to be solved 4. Getting material and financial help from other nations 5. Using other nations as models of how to solve the problems 6. National identity

7. Honest national self-appraisal 8. Historical experience of previous national crises 9. Dealing with national failure 10. Situation-specific national flexibility 11. National core values 12. Freedom from geopolitical constraints

It turned out that successful attempts were more likely than unsuccessful attempts to be followed by a change in national political institutions.

I would enjoy the fact that I had a team that won a national title, but I would be disappointed that none of the kids got drafted because that's not how it's supposed to work.

It's the Afghan national army that went into Najaf and did the work there.

I am not going to wait and have us plunge back into a contentious national debate that has very little chance of succeeding. Let's make the Affordable Care Act work for everybody.

National diplomacy strategies are usually focused on promoting one's interests against others' interests. By emphasizing the global 'we' rather than the national 'I' in the climate change debate, COP 21 proved to be a case in point for a change of lenses.

My investment strategy, which is to focus on sectors that are a national priority for India, hasn't changed.

Luck is not scalable. Luck is not a national strategy.

We need a better strategy to achieve the national goal of a stable population, healthier and better educated.

Meth production and use is a serious problem in Kentucky and across the country. Clearly, there is a growing need for a national strategy to combat this crisis. Increasing public awareness is a significant means for prevention.

I am deeply concerned for the safety of our people brought by a lack of a comprehensive strategy to defeat ISIL.

Discrimination is not a national defense strategy!

A robust economy is a source of national strength for Japan.

If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'

Civic participation over a lifetime, working in neighborhoods and communities and service of all kinds - military and civilian, full-time and part-time, national and international - will strengthen America's civic purpose.