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“In the 21st Century, the community of nations may see more and more of this very kind of threat that Iraq poses now - a rogue state with biological and chemical weapons. If we fail to respond, Saddam and all those who follow will believe that they can threaten the security of a vital region with impunity. But if we act now as one, we will send a clear message to would-be tyrants and terrorists that we will do what it takes to protect our security and our freedom in this new era.”

“When President Jiang Zemin visited India in 1996, the two sides decided that they would jointly build a constructive partnership of cooperation oriented towards the 21st century.”

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Author:Li Peng

“The 19th century belonged to England, the 20th century belonged to the U.S., and the 21st century belongs to China. Invest accordingly.”

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Author:Warren Buffett

“For me, it's always very beautiful that you can do something today in the 21st century which is not an imitation but which has a connection to art which is 4,000 years old.”

Years Art Today Beautiful Can Do Century Connections Imitation 21st Century Very Beautiful Can Do Something

Author:Wolfgang Laib

“You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.”

Ifs World Firsts Opportunity Economy Century Havens 21st Century World Economy Groundwork

Author:Wayne Swan

“The future will be in the hands of those of you who belong to the 21st century. You have the opportunity and responsibility to build a better humanity. This means developing warm-heartednes s in this very life, here and now. So, do whatever work you do, but ask yourselves now and then, 'How can I contribute to human beings being happier and more peaceful?'”

“All-around 21st-century artist the great Kanye West at Design Miami/ Basel”

Artist Century Design West 21st Century Miami

Author:Simon de Pury

“My mother has often said that the issue of women is the unfinished business of the 21st century. That is certainly true. But so, too, are the issues of LGBT rights the unfinished business of the 21st century.”

Said Mother Issues Rights Century 21st Century Unfinished Unfinished Business

Author:Chelsea Clinton

“Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future.”

Jobs Technology Century Industry Investing 21st Century

Author:Jay Inslee

“If I had to model clothes in a time period other than the 21st century, I think I'd like to model way back when they just wore skin loincloths. That would be best suited for me - better than corsets. I'm quite claustrophobic.”

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Author:Lara Stone

“Water is the sleeping giant issue of the 21st century and we all need to wake up about it.”

Needs Water Sleep Issues Century Wake Up Giants 21st Century

Author:Robert Redford

“I was just like a 21st century person waiting to be born, and this is the medium that I thrive in. And I feel stronger now than I did any time since I've been a teenager - I mean, musically, creatively.”

Feels Mean Persons Waiting Born Century Stronger Mediums Teenager Thrive 21st Century

Author:Daryl Hall

“The most important issue of the 21st century will be the condition of the global environment.”

Important Issues Environment Conditions Century 21st Century Important Issues

Author:Ian McHarg

“The Information Age is, first and foremost, an education age, in which education must start at birth and continue throughout a lifetime. Last year, from this podium, I said that education has to be our highest priority. I have something to say to every family listening to us tonight: Your children can go on to college.... Because of the things that have been done, we can make college as universal in the 21st century as high school is today. And, my friends, that will change the face and future of America.”

“Thanks to the leadership of Vice President Gore, we have a government for the Information Age, once again a government that is a progressive instrument of the common good, rooted in our oldest values of opportunity, responsibility and community, devoted to fiscal responsibility, determined to give our people the tools they need to make the most of their own lives in the 21st century, a 21st century government for 21st century America.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999

“Tonight, I propose a 21st Century Crime Bill to deploy the latest technologies and tactics to make our communities even safer. Our balanced budget will help put up to 50,000 more police on the street in the areas hardest hit by crime, and then to equip them with new tools from crime-mapping computers to digital mug shots. We must break the deadly cycle of drugs and crime.”

“What does it really mean to be a leftist in the early part of the 21st century? What are we really talking about? And I can just be very candid with you. It means to have a certain kind of temperament, to make certain kinds of political and ethical choices, and to exercise certain analytical focuses in targeting on the catastrophic and the monstrous, the scandalous, the traumatic, that are often hidden and concealed in the deodorized and manicured discourses of the mainstream. That's what it means to be a leftist. So let's just be clear about it.”

“In terms of the class structure that you see so much in European portraiture, I don't think one feels that in America in the 21st century. But we have these other kinds of social structures now, like celebrity, who establish new hierarchies.”

Thinking Feels Kind America Social Term Class Century Structure 21st Century Hierarchy Portraiture Social Structure

Author:Will Cotton

“No band on 21st-century radio has mined pre-grunge hair-metal's sleaze like L.A.'s Buckcherry. So it makes poetic sense that they'd spend their sixth album tallying all seven deadly sins.”

Sin Century Hair Band Seven Radio Albums Poetic Metals 21st Century Deadly Sins Grunge Seven Deadly Sins Seven Sins Sleazes Hair Metal

Author:Chuck Eddy

“In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry.”

Has Beens Brain Century Industry Taste Kitchen Chemistry 21st Century Bud Hormones Biochemistry Food Industry Taste Buds

Author:Mark Hyman, M.D.

“Intellectual Property is the oil of the 21st century.”

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Author:Mark Getty

“The most important question of the 21st century is not what or how much, it is 'How?' How do you propose to turn your good ideas into positive changes in other people's lives? You must be the 'how generation.'”

People Important Ideas Turns Generations Century Good Ideas 21st Century Propose Positive Change Important Questions

Author:William J. Clinton

“But the fact is, Mr. Chairman, for all the challenges the Postal Service of the 21st century faces, it still retains its traditional place as a key cog in how American businesses conduct their affairs and how Americans all across this land communicate.”

Stills Facts Faces Challenges Land Century Keys Affair Communicate Traditional 21st Century Chairman Cogs American Business Postal Service

Author:John M. McHugh

“I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.”

Century Horror Glad 21st Century Seventies

Author:Anne Stevenson

“Beginning in 1973 and then acts in '77, '78, 1980, 1994 and then into the 21st century in the international arena, governments have steadily gotten out of the transportation business.”

Government Century International 21st Century Arena Transportation

Author:Frederick W. Smith

“Ten percent of the American population thinks that Barack Obama is a Muslim. Those are the people that have not learned the skill of filtering information from the vast barrage of inaccurate information that we're all faced with everyday. I think that's a very 21st century skill.”

People Thinking Century Information Ten Skills Percent Everyday Population Barack 21st Century

Author:Michael Azerrad

“Another goal is to look to the resources we have and to see how we could do better to plan, in a sense, for the faculty and infrastructure that we will need to study Asia well into the 21st century.”

Needs Wells Looks Goal Study Plans Century Resources Faculty 21st Century Asia Infrastructure

Author:William C. Kirby

“I think it is something that is so important, to be very aware of the direction in which the 21st century is going with all this blind faith in democracy. And by the way, I am not against democracy - I am against the blind faith that is being put in democracy.”

Thinking Way Important Democracy Century Blind 21st Century Blind Faith

Author:Alfonso Cuaron

“I stand before you tonight as a young American, a proud American, of a generation born as the Cold War receded, shaped by the tragedy of 9/11, connected by the digital revolution and determined to re-elect the man who will make the 21st century another American century - President Barack Obama.”

“The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.”

Knows Sin Century Socialism Construction Founders 21st Century Adopting Under Construction

Author:Rafael Correa

“I love stories that give me a perspective on how easy American life has become in the 21st century.”

Giving Stories Easy Century Perspective Give Me Love Story 21st Century American Life

Author:Hope Davis

“I believe it is important that we Japanese write a constitution for ourselves that would reflect the shape of the country we consider desirable in the 21st century.”

Writing Believe Important Country I Believe Century Shapes Constitution 21st Century Desirable

Author:Shinzo Abe

“I'm a 21st century guy, secure in who I am.”

Guy Century Who I Am Secure 21st Century

Author:Eric Holder

“Since the beginning of the 21st century, thanks to the concerted efforts of both sides, China-U.S. relationship has on the whole enjoyed steady growth. Since President Obama took office, we have maintained close contact through exchange of visits, meetings, telephone conversations and letters.”

Whole Sides Growth President Effort Century Conversation Office Letters Meetings China Contact Thanks Enjoyed President Obama Steady 21st Century Both Sides Telephones

Author:Hu Jintao

“I firmly believe that we who are alive and can think today-in the closing years of the 20th century-have a commitment to our species to make sure that the flicker of movement we have thus managed in space stays sufficiently kindled so that the people of the 21st century can build upon and extend the human abode from Earth to the cosmos beyond.”

People Thinking Years Believe Humans Today Earth Space Alive Century Movement Commitment Species Cosmos 21st Century 20th Century Closing Flicker Abode

Author:Paul Levinson

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