Quotes About Challenges

Families in Logan, West Virginia, were going through the same struggles as families in the Bronx, San Francisco, and Houston. This was not a West Virginia problem. This is an American problem, and it has to change.

Autism has touched many families in West Virginia, including mine.

The last thing we need to do is drive more people out of West Virginia.

West Virginia has consistently been ranked at or near the bottom amongst all states for our regulatory environment by publications such as Forbes and CNBC. This is an area where we need to improve.

I am baffled by many Western politicians who continually blame low-cost imported goods for their own economic challenges.

China is attempting the death-defying feat, which no one has attempted in the history of the world, which is to move a billion people out of poverty. When I speak to Chinese policy-makers, the thing that annoys them the most about Western policy-makers is that they're not given any credit for anything.

The difficulty in a number of Western democracies is that the playing field is being tilted. For many in the middle class, prosperity seems unattainable because a good education - today's passport to riches - is unaffordable.

South Vietnam had to be built from scratch and, from the very beginning, depended far too much on the Western superpowers. As in the case of a person on public welfare, this dependency, which became greater with each day, was quite difficult to shake.

It's a mistake to assume that Islamists always come from the slums. Indeed, many come from affluent families but for some reason just couldn't manage to integrate into Western society, even though they had good opportunities for advancement.

Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done.

We should not be surprised that democracy is imperfect even in Western countries.

I've done a little bit of everything now, but I would like to do a Western because I've never done that.

Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere; some say the poorest in the world.

Western Europeans are not having any babies.

I was raised on a family farm in western Minnesota. So I didn't have the background to prepare me for this business life.

I know there are some powerful people in the industry who don't want me to do well.

When you are an actor, you are in the most powerless position in this business.

No one has it easy, and to some degree, everyone feels lonely and powerless, which may cause them to make hurtful decisions.

Not to brag, but I do think I've gotten pretty adept on PowerPoint... except that I can't figure out how to use Excel!

I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.

My battles have been against federal actions that exceed the powers our Founders granted to the federal government in the constitution.

Roads are not practical in Africa.

Every movie goes through that U-shape where you start with 'Oh that's a great idea. I love it.' Everything's possible and then you face 'Oh, we can't do that, and that's impossible, and that's a bad choice.' You go the practicality of it. And then you come up to 'Great.' But that middle part is when you don't have results yet.

We had a good relationship - sometimes there were some controversies, disagreements, things that happen in a normal relationship. I am very grateful to the UFC for all these years; I made my career practically in the UFC.