Quotes About Nation Building

#1. We want to make nation-building a people's movement.

Narendra Modi

#2. If a nation reads what is good with a good understanding, it gets a good understanding for a good nation building!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#3. By the time the war was over, Bangladesh was a devastated country. The economy was shattered. Millions of people needed to be rehabilitated. I knew that I had to return home and participate in the work of nation building. I thought I owed it to myself.

Muhammad Yunus

#4. Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in the sense that it was the United States' initial or baptismal experience in nation-building.

Miguel Syjuco

#5. In general, Americans are not very good at nation-building and not very good colonialists.

Francis Fukuyama

#6. And this is an administration - we're not into nation-building, we're focused on justice. And we're going to get justice. It's going to take a while, probably. But I'm a patient man. Nothing will diminish my will and my determination - nothing.

George W. Bush

#7. I don't think our troops ought to be used for what's called nation building.

George W. Bush

#8. As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.

Ron Paul

#9. The first and most important component in nation building is LAW. Law is the source of national Cohesion.

Myles Munroe

#10. President Obama and Democrats won a mandate to move us forward with jobs, healthcare reform, equality, and nation building here at home.

Christine Pelosi

#11. Bush humble foreign policy was hijacked into nation-building.

Ron Paul

#12. Infrastructure sector is all about building assets for the country. It is part of nation building.

Gautam Adani

#13. Let the professionals like doctors & engineers teach in schools once a week. Let's make teaching a national movement necessary for Nation building.

Narendra Modi

#14. 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.

Ron Paul

#15. Thanks to the heroic sons and daughters of this country, who have paid sacrifices, we have been able to score a number of victories which are encouraging the nation-building process we are engaged in.

Girma Woldegiorgis

#16. The message of reconciliation, of nation-building, of granting amnesty, indemnity, has struck a powerful, favorable chord. And people can understand that we're here not for purposes of retribution but to forget the past and to build our country.

Nelson Mandela

#17. We're not into nation-building. We're into justice.

George W. Bush

#18. Before Newfoundland joined Canada in 1949, there was the same sort of talk of young men sacrificing their lives so that a country might grow - that somehow it had been a great nation-building success for Newfoundland.

Michael Winter

#19. In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself.

Ron Paul

#20. India is more than a sum of its contradictions, any truism about India can be contradicted with another truism. There is no fixed stereotype. But even thinking about India makes clear the immensity of the nation-building challenge.

Shashi Tharoor

#21. I think that before you take on nation building in your mind's eye as to how it should be, you'd better have a clear understanding if this is doable and will work.

Anthony Zinni

#22. Food is about agriculture, about ecology, about man's relationship with nature, about the climate, about nation-building, cultural struggles, friends and enemies, alliances, wars, religion. It is about memory and tradition and, at times, even about sex.

Mark Kurlansky

#23. Afghanistan would have been difficult enough without Iraq. Iraq made it impossible. The argument that had we just focused on Afghanistan we'd now be okay is persuasive, but it omits the fact that we weren't supposed to get involved in nation-building in Afghanistan.

Michael Hastings

#24. WOMEN must be at the forefront of nation-building to bring the South African citizenry together and, therefore, develop a whole new ethos of human co-existence

Steven Biko

#25. 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.

George W. Bush

#26. There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq, wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters of that are.

Lamar Alexander

#27. We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building.

Marcus Garvey

#28. I have seen people wanting to devote their time & energy to nation building. All they need is an opportunity. 'MyGov' is that opportunity!

Narendra Modi

#29. It's not the job of the U.S. military to do nation-building or produce democratic utopias.

Ted Cruz

#30. I saw the president make the tough calls in the Situation Room - and today, our troops in Iraq have finally come home so America can do some nation building here at home. That was the change that we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.

Rahm Emanuel

#31. We are all equal children before our mother; and India asks each one of us, in whatsoever role we play in the complex drama of nation-building, to do our duty with integrity, commitment and unflinching loyalty to the values enshrined in our Constitution.

Pranab Mukherjee

#32. Nation-building is never a 'done deal' confined to history already established.

Aberjhani

#33. We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building.

Sherrod Brown

#34. I don't think we should be engaged in nation-building. It's not our job to turn foreign nations into democratic utopias, to try to turn Iraq into Switzerland. It is the military's job to hunt down and kill our enemies, to kill ISIS before they murder American citizens and they wage jihad.

Ted Cruz

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

Al Franken

#36. When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.

Zaha Hadid

#37. We can't build a nation by keeping the teachers hungry.

M.F. Moonzajer

#38. There's a place for talking and criticism. But there's also a place to let our ACTIONS do the talking!

Fela Durotoye

#39. Humankind is the greatest resources. Don't lose faith in the people.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#40. We are limited only by our lack of creativity. Our buildings should symbolize the exuberance of a free nation that encourages individual effort and creativity.

Douglas Cardinal

#41. I envy those Hindus and Buddhists who have in their religion philosophy and ancestor worship which build in the believer a continuity with the past, and that most important ingredient in the building of a nation - memory.

F. Sionil Jose

#42. The nation-state is becoming less and less competent to perform its international political tasks ... These are some of the reasons pressing us to lead vigorously toward the true building of a new world order.

Nelson Rockefeller

#43. For us to progress, we must be community in liberty, equality and fraternity.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#44. A nation can be mighty, when the citizens put away their political differences, work together for a common vision, a common goal and a common good.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#45. In America, about the only thing censored today is Christianity, the same Christianity that was the driving force behind the building of this great nation.

Rick Scarborough

#46. Hollow slogans like "Making your country great again" only lead to one result, collapse.

Paul Levitz

#47. The people gave me the responsibility of building the future of this nation. And I did it with honor.

Hosni Mubarak

#48. [The United States and Israel] share many common objectives ... chief of which is the building of a better world in which every nation can develop its resources and develop them in freedom and peace.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#49. He's a family man and a businessman. He spent his career building successful companies. Then, he saved the 2002 Olympics and brought pride to our nation. As governor, he balanced the budget, cut taxes, and created jobs. The president America needs is Mitt Romney!

Reince Priebus

#50. If every citizen can get rid of indiscipline syndrome, we have immense potential to build more productive, conflict-free, harmonious and peaceful communities, societies, cities, nations and world.

Vishwas Chavan

#51. We are bound by ideals that teach us what it means to be citizens. Every child must be taught these ideals. Every citizen must uphold them ... I ask you to be citizens. Citizens, not spectators. Citizens, not subjects. Responsible citizens building communities of service and a nation of character.

George W. Bush

#52. As I grew up, I knew that as a building it was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid of Giza, the nation's capital, the czar's winter palace, and the Louvre - except, of course, that it was better than all of those inconsequential places.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

#53. The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.

Robert E.Lee

#54. Why then seek to complete in a few decades what took the other nations of the world thousands of years? Why, in your hurry to subdue and utilize nature, squander her splendid gifts? You have opportunities such as mankind has never had before, and may never have again.

James Bryce

#55. A nation is not defined by its borders or the boundaries of its land mass Rather, a nation is defined by adverse people who have been unified by a cause and a value system and who are committed to a vision for the type of society they wish to live in and give to the future generations to come.

Fela Durotoye

#56. One of the secrets a nation can unlock to have material wealth is, having a leader who will take an uncompromising stand to establish truth and honesty as a rule of building the nation

Sunday Adelaja

#57. There are many countries but few nations. We are committed to building Nigeria into a most desirable nation to live

Fela Durotoye

#58. Teachers have the hardest and most important jobs in America. They're building our nation. And we should appreciate them, respect them, and pay them well.

Jim Hunt

#59. It has often been our best instincts, not our worst, that have led us to do harm in the world

Rosa Brooks

#60. I don't know any nation on Earth that succeeded in creating a strong middle class with rising wages based on building a stronger and bigger government.

Mitt Romney

#61. Show me the heroes that the youth of your country look up to, and I will tell you the future of your country.

Idowu Koyenikan

#62. As I grew up, I knew that as a building (Fenway Park) was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid at Giza, the nation's capitol, the czar's Winter Palace, and the Louvre - except, of course, that is better than all those inconsequential places

Bart Giamatti

#63. The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend.

George W. Bush

#64. The nation that would to-day disarm its soldiers and turn its people to the paths of peace would accomplish more to its building up than by all the war taxes wrong from its hostile and
unwilling serfs

Clarence Darrow

#65. Funny, there had been a time when building things was what America did. From massive dams to towering skyscrapers, from mechanized factories to moon rockets, the nation had created, had viewed that as part of the national identity.

Marcus Sakey

#66. The oil is a gift bestowed by God on the Arab nation, to use after centuries of poverty, backwardness and servitude - in raising its living standards, developing its economic, social and cultural conditions, and building up its own power to meet the challenges and conspiracies besetting it.

Saddam Hussein

#67. Play is under attack in our nation's schools - and shrinking recess periods are only part of the problem. Homework is increasing. Cities are building new schools without playgrounds. Safety concerns are prompting bans of tag, soccer, and even running on the schoolyard.

Darell Hammond

#68. This is the real task before us: to reassert our commitment as a nation to a law higher than our own, to renew our spiritual strength. Only by building a wall of such spiritual resolve can we, as a free people, hope to protect our own heritage and make it someday the birthright of all men.

Ronald Reagan

#69. Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.

Jim DeMint

#70. We will be a mighty nation, if we build each other.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#71. It does not much matter that an individual loses two or three hundred pounds in buying a bad picture, but it is to be regretted that a nation should lose two or three hundred thousand in raising a ridiculous building.

John Ruskin

#72. No nation can truly develop unless fanaticism, primitive superstitions and metaphysical non-sense are eradicated.

Abhijit Naskar

#73. How can you contribute towards building the Indian society and the Indian nation? No better way than to upgrade the quality of young people in school, particularly the schools which are run by the state government in the villages.

Azim Premji

#74. What we get from building a space station, the economic return, the science return, is very, very important to our nation, to our economy.

Scott Kelly

#75. It is time we accept there's no Cronkite moment for Afghanistan. Perhaps it's time we value the hearts and minds of our own over distant Afghan tribes.

Tiffany Madison

#76. Part of building a new nation means building a spirit of tolerance, love and respect amongst the people of this country.

Nelson Mandela

#77. From the street below, the SYLK Institute building resembled a perfectly faceted aquamarine obelisk, rising from the cracked concrete and asphalt of the nation's capital city.

Jonathan Marker

#78. Ten responsible and rational young citizens are sufficient to clean up the mess of a thousand old superstitious citizens.

Abhijit Naskar

#79. I believe in employment, not in money.

Bharath Mamidoju

#80. The idea is to change the nature and value system of the nation as whole

Sunday Adelaja

#81. Our nation is ripe with a multitude of successful people, who have achieved much for themselves with little impact on anyone else

Fela Durotoye

#82. One bee cannot build a hive; one ant cannot build a colony.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#83. What we need now is a nation of great people who live to positively impact others and build enduring legacies

Fela Durotoye

#84. Some of history's cleverest business minds understood the power of share platforms, from the aggressive titans who made fortunes building the nation's railroads, to Conrad Hilton, who created the first premier brand of international hotels.

Lisa Gansky

#85. Our nation will succeed or fail to the degree that all of us - citizens and businesses alike - are active participanats in building strong, sustainable and enriching communities.

Arnold Hiatt

#86. To achieve this incredible feat of building Nigeria, we must all truly desire to see it happen

Fela Durotoye

#87. It comes to me every day of my life that a home spirit is being awakened amongst us, that as a nation we are beginning to realize how important it is to have homes of our own, homes that we like, that we have been instrumental in building, that we will want to have belong to our children.

Gustav Stickley

#88. The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.

Gary Oldman

#89. Your pride for your country should not come after your country becomes great; your country becomes great because of your pride in it.

Idowu Koyenikan

#90. Despite the turbulence our nation has experienced, we WILL arrive safely and without incident!

Fela Durotoye

#91. The history of the building of the American nation may justly be described as a laboratory experiment in understanding and in solving the problems that will confront the world tomorrow.

Nicholas Murray Butler