Quotes About Nation-building

We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.

We have been partners in nation-building and take our role in building the nation very proudly.

The one sure way of participating in the process of nation-building is to vote on the election day.

We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.

Together with this Brazilian people, we will build a new nation.

If Jawaharlal Nehru was the Maker of Modern India, then perhaps Potti Sriramulu should be named its Mercator.

When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.

I see only one hope for our country, and that is when white men and black men, desiring neither power nor money, but desiring only the good for their country, come together to work for it. I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find we are turned to hating.

The people of Kashmir are our people, and we will do everything to ensure they are a part of the process of making India an economic superpower.

The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.

If you say merit does not matter but miracles or favor matters, you are equally destroying yourself and nation.

Real Fathers make a positive impact on their generation, and so give the next generation the advantage of a better nation to live in

If we don't stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, we're going to have a serious problem coming down the road.

It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.

And thus he mused: "From here, indeedShall we strike terror in the Swede;And here a city, by our laborFounded, shall gall our haughty neighbor;'Here cut'—so Nature gives command—'Your window through on Europe: standFirm-footed by the sea, unchanging!' "

We are very anxious to bring the Jews of Morocco over and we are doing all we can to achieve this. But we cannot count on the Jews of Morocco alone to build the country, because they have not been educated for this.

I watched the Bush administration overreact to the Clinton administration, who believed they did too much nation building, sustaining other countries, and that's why we never put the commitment on Afghanistan and Iraq that should have been in there under their policy leadership.

Nor were there many nation-builders like him in his day: Bismarck, Giuseppe Garibaldi and Simón Bolívar. His achievement may have been the more demanding because none of the others had to create a country out of a crazy quilt.

Dans un pays où les décideurs s'évertuent à construire une villa à leurs rejetons là où il est question de leur bâtir une nation, il n'est pas rare de rencontrer des talents chevronnés trimer au fond des gargotes afin de joindre les deux bouts...

whatever happens in Pakistan, quite clearly our task in India is clear; we must pursue with even greater determination than in the past our efforts at forming a secular State in which men of all communities can walk with their heads high.

if George Washington founded the nation, John Marshall defined it.

I have a very clear, genuine vision about what political work should be, what politics and politicians should contribute to the nation.

After 9/11, a few hundred CIA and Special Operations personnel, backed by airpower and Afghan militias, devastated Taliban and al-Qaeda forces. That effort has since turned into a conventional Pentagon nation-building exercise and gone backward.

How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution.