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Quotes About Population

Our country and state have a special obligation to work toward the stabilization of our own population so as to credibly lead other parts of the world toward population stabilization.
~ Ronald Reagan
Rich countries don't need as many children. We used to need kids to work in the fields as farm hands, to crawl on their bellies into coal mines. Well, kids are more like luxury objects now.
~ Todd G. Buchholz
In some markets, we don't have a lot of room to expand. We've done studies of store density and essentially found our more dense markets have more than one store per 15,000 people.
~ Fred DeLuca
The most stupid mistake a counter-insurgency operation can make is alienating the population. If you alienate the population, you're finished.
~ Meles Zenawi
In India there are more poor people in three states... than there are in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa.
~ Andrew Mitchell
One in four sub-Saharan Africans is Nigerian, and it has 140 million dynamic people - chaotic people - but very interesting people.
~ Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
It was a civilian ship, and the Lusitania could outrun any submarine. So this population of people was very confident that Cunard and the Royal Navy would be looking after them. Why weren't they under convoy? That's the real question.
~ Erik Larson
The divergence of songs in the new population away from those in the progenitor population would only be prevented if these processes were balanced by repeated immigration and subsequent breeding: song flow.
~ Peter R. Grant
Everybody says they want to have private providers and we're saying fine. Let the states negotiate on behalf of a population in your state to drive down your costs. Don't just give subsidies to insurance companies for expensive insurance.
~ Maria Cantwell
With a population of 1.4 billion, China is a lucrative market. But getting into that market isn't cheap. At best, the price of doing business in China is silence; at worst, it's reading talking points straight from the Chinese Communist Party. Beijing is not subtle about it.
~ Ben Sasse
There's a lot of cities in Florida, there are many areas that are suburban, many areas that are rural, you know, many areas that are dense cities like ours.
~ Francis X. Suarez
The National Endowment for the Arts distributes money to all 50 states, and they try to do their best to distribute to rural and suburban areas. It's one of the great things about the program. It raises the awareness of culture throughout the population.
~ Bill Foster
The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs.
~ Jane Byrne
If your city's being populated by highly educated twentysomethings with choices, you're probably going to succeed.
~ Mick Cornett
The sum of intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.
~ Unknown
None of us knows all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.
~ Vaclav Havel
None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.
~ Vaclav Havel
Could such a shift be accomplished without eventually converting to a no-growth economy and reducing the current global population? For individuals, this would mean a no less revolutionary delinking of social status from material consumption.
~ Vaclav Smil
Die Vermessung der Intelligenz verschiedener Menschen, mit hausbackenen oder statistisch geschliffenen Methoden, irritiert naturgemäß breite Bevölkerungsschichten.
~ Unknown
showed earlier, politicians have been persuaded (by entirely spurious and Statist arguments) that vaccinating the population at large helps save money and benefits the many at the expense of the few.
~ Unknown
modern states realized that success did not come from having the largest armies or the most favorable tariffs or the most natural resources—or even the most advanced industries. In the modern world, success came from having the largest possible educated population and providing those hundreds of millions of creative people with credible freedom.
~ Vernor Vinge
The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.
~ Tom Hanks
What business could be mature when you have economies with more than 2 billion people in India, China and Southeast Asia?
~ Jack Welch
In the first quarter of 2015, it is necessary to explain to the population and business what fields will be supported by the state
~ Unknown