Modernizing Quotes

#1. Modernizing the postal service was particularly important for the soldiers, who relied on letters, newspapers, and magazines from home to sustain morale.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#2. Today what we are doing is modernizing the financial services industry, tearing down those antiquated laws and granting banks significant new authority.

William J. Clinton

#3. The driving motivation of a new American endeavor in Iraq and in neighboring Arab lands should be modernizing the Arab world.

Fouad Ajami

#4. What can convince modern man is not a historical or a psychological or a continually ever modernizing Christianity but only the unrestricted and uninterrupted message of Revelation.

Romano Guardini

#5. We call upon the nuclear-weapon states to immediately cease their plans to further invest in modernizing and extending the life span of their nuclear weapons and related facilities.

Mohammad Javad Zarif

#6. Take Obama's challenge, in January 2010, to the assembled CEOs at the Forum on Modernizing Government: "If you can book dinner on OpenTable, or a flight on Southwest or United online, then why shouldn't you be able to make an appointment at your local Social Security office the same way?

Aneesh Chopra

#7. People really criticize professional athletes going into the Olympics. People don't like change. A bunch of people don't like the Olympics now because we've added skateboarding ... We're modernizing the sport.

Larry Ellison

#8. Belgium is modernizing itself and it gives me joy.

King Albert II

#9. The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy.

Carlos Mesa

#10. Look, the whole world wants to modernize, and when you look to what they mean by modernizing, they mean Americanize. Would a modern Greek prefer to live in Orange County than Piraeus? Yes. Absolutely.

Rupert Murdoch

#11. For my children, it makes sense to talk about modernizing Social Security, letting them create stronger personal accounts, letting them get a higher rate of return over the long run.

John Sununu

#12. We're [Iran] not dismantling anything. We are uninstalling some centrifuges and reconstructing the Arak reactor, modernizing it ... The remaining activities that we need undertake will not take more than several days, less than two weeks.

Mohammad Javad Zarif

#13. Russia's only real geostrategic option - the option that would give Russia a realistic international role and also maximize the opportunity of transforming and socially modernizing itself - is Europe.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#14. My father decided that he was such a admirer of Ibn Rushd's philosophy, thinking that he changed the family name to Rushdie. I realized why my father was so interested in him, because he was really an incredibly modernizing voice inside our Islamic culture.

Salman Rushdie

#15. There was no question of generation change or saying goodbye to the past or modernizing sloganising.

Geoffrey Howe

#16. This modernizing experiment seems to have something diabolic about it. Everything that was becomes rejected in the name of a modernity that assumes the nature of a fiction, an illusion, a devilish apparition. To a greater or lesser extent this applies to all the postcommunist countries.

Andrzej Stasiuk

#17. For me, writing is a solitary thing and a personal thing. And it's weird, because when you make something that requires money and collaborators, you have to talk about them. I don't enjoy that part of it. I still want to keep it to myself.

Mike White

#18. You could say singing is in our genes. Both our parents sang and made up songs constantly.

Isaac Hanson

#19. Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.

Patrick Ness

#20. There weren't any villains though. The world was just complicated in various ways, and there weren't any obvious villains to be found. It was excruciating.

Tatsuhiko Takimoto

#21. Beauty made you love, and love made you beautiful.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#22. Sometimes we forget about our own advantages because we focus on what we don't have. Just because you have to work a little harder at something that seems easier to others doesn't mean you're without your own talents.

Chris Colfer

#23. In a culture in which interpersonal relationships are generally considered to provide the answer to every form of distress, it is sometimes difficult to persuade well-meaning helpers that solitude can be as therapeutic as emotional support.

Anthony Storr

#24. If I could repeat my childhood, I would repeat it exactly as it was, with the poverty, the cold, little food, with the flies and pigs, all that.

Jose Saramago

#25. What are movies for if not to have the good guys triumph over the bad ones?

Margaret Carlson

#26. It is U.S. workers who lose out when employers cannot get the high-tech graduates they need to compete with foreign companies in the 21st century economy.

Kit Bond