Quotes About Progress

If, in our haste to 'progress,' the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be an ugly America. We cannot afford an America where expedience tramples upon esthetics and development decisions are made with an eye only on the present.

There's no reason why we cannot become smarter, more perfect, and maybe even live longer.

We cannot meet the needs of a growing country and a growing economy by simply maintaining our current level of effort. We must do more.

If we cannot accurately measure poverty, we surely cannot accurately measure our efforts to tackle it.

We cannot run a democracy without a strong middle class.

We cannot rely on imported fuels forever, and we aim to replace traditional oil and gas boiler systems with products which are much more efficient.

We must make the government accept that at a time when we are expected to look ahead, we cannot afford to start discriminating against our own people in the name of 'ethos.'

We cannot keep on carrying burdens of the past and keep ruining our future.

Regardless of our political stance, we cannot afford to perpetuate the Western car-centric model.

We cannot solve the STEM gender gap without solving it for millennials. They're our first digital natives, and they're willing to learn quickly.

Every state aspiring to be part of the free world, able to decide its own destiny, deserves its chance. They may, in a not too distant future, contribute to all of us in ways we cannot imagine today.

We cannot turn back the clock. We cannot undo the impact of technology. Nor would we want to.

We cannot afford a dead stop on all of the progress we have made under President Obama in saving our planet from the devastating consequences of climate change.

If the countries of Europe and of North America can be almost uniformly prosperous, we don't see why we cannot be allowed to be a little prosperous.

We cannot wait for the next Kennedy to set us on our path to the stars.

We cannot pick a lifestyle and tell two generations after us to live like that. It is impossible.

As much as I reiterate my affection for Elon, there is nothing Elon does that we cannot do.

As we look to the future, we cannot improve our living standards while simultaneously degrading the natural environment around us.

I think we have to be positive and think about what we can do now because the past is the past - we cannot change it.

We cannot ever accept a government that thinks they can get away with tiny targets on climate which they then don't achieve.

We cannot blindly pursue the goal of machine intelligence without pondering its consequences.

We cannot give up on working toward that more perfect union.

Coloradans want to take the long view and invest in our state's future. We know that to do this, we cannot neglect our schools.

We dream of nation-building. We cannot achieve this by fomenting social divisions.