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“We are on the right track to the 21st century. We are on the right track, but our work is not finished. What should we do? First, let us consider how to proceed. I say the question is no longer, "Who's to blame?" but "What to do?"”

Should Firsts Century Blame Track Finished 21st Century Right Track

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995

“I want to build a bridge to the 21st century in which we create a strong and growing economy to preserve the legacy of opportunity for the next generation by balancing our budget in a way that protects our values and ensuring that every family will be able to own and protect the value of their most important asset, their home.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995

“We should stay on the right track to the 21st century. Opportunity alone is not enough. I want to build an America in the 21st century in which all Americans take personal responsibility for themselves, their families, their communities and their country.”

Want Should Country Enough America Opportunity Community Responsibility Century Track 21st Century Personal Responsibility Right Track

Author:William J. Clinton

“I want to build a bridge to the 21st century that ends the permanent underclass, that lifts up the poor and ends their isolation, their exile, and they are not forgotten anymore.”

Want Ends Poor Century Forgotten Lifts Bridges Permanent Isolation 21st Century Exile

Author:William J. Clinton

“We're going to build the bridge to the 21st century, we have to make our children free - free of the vise grip of guns and gangs and drugs; free to build lives of hope.”

Children Century Drug Gun Our Children Bridges 21st Century Gang Drug Free

Author:William J. Clinton

“My fellow Americans, we can only build our bridge to the 21st century if we build it together, and if we're willing to walk arm-in-arm across that bridge together.”

Ifs Together Walks Century Willing Arms Fellows Bridges 21st Century

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995

“India is the Saudi Arabia of human resources for the 21st century. The power that we used to get from oil in 20th century, we will get it from people like you in 21st century.”

People Humans Used Century Like You Resources India Oil 21st Century 20th Century Human Resources Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis

Author:Rahul Gandhi

“As information technology becomes millions of times more powerful, any particular use of it becomes correspondingly cheaper. Thus, it has become commonplace to expect online services (not just news, but 21st century treats like search or social networking) to be given for free, or rather, in exchange for acquiescence to being spied on.”

Source: Who Owns the Future?

“At the turn of the [21st] century it was really Sergey Brin at Google who just had the thought of, well, if we give away all the information services, but we make money from advertising, we can make information free and still have capitalism. But the problem with that is it reneges on the social contract where people still participate in the formal economy. And it's a kind of capitalism that's totally self-defeating because it's so narrow. It's a winner-take-all capitalism that's not sustaining.”

“I believe that the 21st century economy is an economy of people, not of factories. The intellectual factor has become increasingly important in the economy, which is why we are planning to focus on providing additional opportunities for people to realise their potential.”

“It was a real revolution. But with one missing feature. That is the feeling in a people that "We have done it once, and if the new lot let us down, we can do it again!" It was that proud, menacing confidence which made the French revolution special. But it's not around in 21st-century Europe. After 1989, the people handed over liberty to the experts. Will they ever want it back?”

People Ifs Want Made Real Done Feelings Can Do Liberty Special Century Missing Revolution Proud Europe Features Experts 21st Century French Revolution

Author:Neal Ascherson

“Monolingualism is the illiteracy of the 21st century!”

Century 21st Century Illiteracy

Author:Greg Roberts

“Unquenchable is a worthy successor to Cadillac Desert that ably demonstrates how our most valuable resource is being squandered, ignored, and flushed away. Although it reminds us that water is indeed finite, Unquenchable clearly shows us the solutions to the greatest threat of the 21st century are limited only by politics and greed.”

Shows Water Century Solutions Resources Threat Greed Valuable Worthy Desert Ignored 21st Century Finite Successors Cadillacs

Author:Terry Tamminen

“The morality of the 21st century will depend on how we respond to this simple but profound question: Does every human life have equal moral value simply and merely because it is human?”

Humans Doe Values Simple Moral Century Depends Morality Equal Profound Human Life 21st Century Moral Values

Author:Wesley J. Smith

“Time for a new business model for the 21st century. For starters, retire that outdated and creepy clown. You can be a true leader by stop exploiting children. I guarantee the millennials market you’re after will reward you for it. I know the public health world will applaud you, starting with myself.”

“In the early 21st century, it is easy to condemn the Bond books for being racist and imperialist, sexist and misogynist, elitist and sadistic. But this is merely another way of saying that we cannot understand the Bond books without reference to the personality, the outlook and the 'Tory imagination' of the man who wrote them, and to the time in which he wrote them; and that we cannot understand the 1950s and 1960s without some reference to them, and to him.”

Men Way Book Easy Imagination Century He Man Personality Racist 21st Century Outlook Another Way 1960s Sexist British History Elitist Sadistic

Author:David Cannadine

“As we move into the 21st century, there's what the Bible calls a 'quickening of the spirit.'”

Moving Spirit Literature Century 21st Century Quickening

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“An all-volunteer army is best suited to fight the new wars of the 21st century.”

War Fighting Century Army Volunteer 21st Century

Author:George W. Bush

“Our law enforcement must have every tool necessary to find and disrupt terrorists at home and abroad. That's the task of the 21st century.”

Home Law Century Tools Tasks Terrorist 21st Century Law Enforcement Enforcement

Author:George W. Bush

“When you have schools that are operating in the 20th century, and we're trying to prepare our children for the 21st century, even those children know they are not educated in the right way.”

Knows Way Trying Children School Century Our Children Educated 21st Century Right Way 20th Century

Author:Donna Edwards

“The Democratic Party is the - was the largest and most powerful institution supporting slavery in the English-speaking world. And it is the only one that has survived to the 21st century!”

World Powerful Party Century Institutions Slavery Democratic Most Powerful Survived 21st Century Democratic Party English Speaking

Author:Sean Hannity

“I think that the Bible as a system of moral guidance in the 21st century is insufficient, to put it mildly. I feel quite strongly that we need a new moral lodestone if we can't rely on what is inside our own selves. Which I think, actually, is pretty reliable.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Feels Self Moral Century Guidance Rely 21st Century Insufficient

Author:Emma Thompson

“The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives, and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.”

People Knows Firsts Heart War Dies Numbers Century Security Died Decades Aids Agendas 21st Century 20th Century Rivals Hiv Hiv Aids

Author:Al Gore

“Misha's importance and distinctiveness are beginning to be noticed, there's beginning to be some kind of rip-tide here that will soon become a wave of recognition for a book that the world is beginning to catch up to... We weren't ready before. We'd better be ready now. Because it's the 21st century, any minute now, and that means that Misha's time has come. In more ways than one.”

World Way Kind Mean Book Minutes Century Ready Importance Wave Recognition Tides 21st Century Rip

Author:John Shirley

“Technology and computers are very much at the core of our economy going forward. To be prepared for the demands of the 21st century-and to take advantage of its opportunities-it is essential that more of our students today learn basic computer programming skills, no matter what field of work they want to pursue.”

“I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life.”

Believe Humans Art Form I Believe Natural Space Cities Environment Streets Century Performances I Believe In Diverse 21st Century Art Dance Street Life

Author:Antony Gormley

“We need to invest in peoples lives so that they can do the jobs of the 21st century.”

Needs Jobs Can Do Century 21st Century

Author:Ann McLane Kuster

“President Bush has shown great leadership. He has said that the 21st century will not be ruled or dictated by terrorists, dictators, and murderers. He is absolutely right. God bless him for his resolve.”

Said President Leadership Century Terrorist Resolve Bless Dictator 21st Century Murderer President Bush God Bless Great Leadership

Author:Lindsey Graham

“The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy, no state alone has the ability to compete against China.”

Ifs Made States Hands Government President Ability Economy Century Policy China 21st Century Romney Global Economy Bathtubs

Author:Jennifer Granholm

“I see climate change as one of the driving forces in the 21st century. With modern technology and globalization, we are much more connected than ever before. The world's warehouses are now container ships.”

World Force Technology Modern Century Climate Climate Change Connected Driving Ships 21st Century Globalization Driving Force Containers Warehouse Modern Technology

Author:David Titley

“I'm lucky enough to have a kid with me who is actually really intellectually up with what's going on in the world and actually puts his money where his mouth is and goes and does something about it; he goes and talks about it. It livens you up a bit and it brings you into the 21st Century.”

World Doe Enough Kids Bits Century Lucky Mouths 21st Century

Author:Ray Winstone

“We cannot meet 21st Century challenges with a 20th Century bureaucracy.”

Challenges Century 21st Century Bureaucracy 20th Century

Author:Barack Obama

“I am the conscience of the 21st Century.”

Century Conscience 21st Century

Author:Martin Firrell

“The factory model of education is the wrong model for the 21st century. Today, our schools must prepare all students for college and careers-and do far more to personalize instruction and employ the smart use of technology.”

Use Today School Careers Technology Century Students College Models Smart Instruction Factories 21st Century Use Of Technology

Author:Arne Duncan

“Paradigm shifts aren't always obvious when you're in the middle of one. Danny Kennedy makes a compelling case for why solar power is the crucial energy technology of the 21st century.”

Energy Cases Technology Middle Century Obvious Crucial Compelling 21st Century Paradigm Paradigm Shift Solar Power

Author:Michael Brune

“In the previous days and times, we've been involved, not exclusively, but largely, in the process of individual survival: How do I get through the day, how do I get through the week, how do I get through the month? In the 21st century, we're learning that we can no longer concentrate on individual survival strategies, that unless we begin to coalesce those strategies and learn how we can survive collectively, that no individual is going to survive in the long run.”

Long Running Individual Process Week Century Months Involved Survival Strategy Long Runs 21st Century

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“The new markets that arise from ecological constraints will dominate the 21st century economy, and so will markets for knowledge.”

Growth Economy Century Arise Consumption 21st Century Constraints Ecological

Author:Graciela Chichilnisky

“Our early 21st century civilization is in trouble. We need not go beyond the world food economy to see this. Over the last few decades we have created a food production bubble-one based on environmental trends that cannot be sustained, including overpumping aquifers, overplowing land, and overloading the atmosphere with carbon dioxide.”

“Climate change poses a direct threat to the infrastructure of America that we need to stay competitive in this 21st-century economy.”

Needs America Politics Economy Century Direct Threat Climate Climate Change 21st Century Infrastructure

Author:Barack Obama

“21st century is the century of knowledge and the world has always looked at India whenever knowledge finds prominence. Emergence of knowledge society is no more a slogan but has become a reality. Knowledge will be the fountainhead of all the activities that happen in human development.”

World Humans Reality Happens Education Century Development Activity India 21st Century Slogans Human Development Emergence Fountainhead Prominence

Author:Narendra Modi

“The 21st century is the century of knowledge. Knowledge, science and education will have the power and strength to embrace the entire universe.”

Universe Education Century India Embrace 21st Century Power And Strength

Author:Narendra Modi

“If the 21st Century is the era of knowledge and of knowledgeable human-force, then, to extol this force, Gujarat must form a strong bond with books.”

Ifs Humans Book Form Strong Force Century Empowerment India Eras 21st Century Knowledgeable Strong Bond Gujarat

Author:Narendra Modi

“The speeding toy cars produce in the viewer the stress of living in a dynamic, active and bustling 21st-century city.”

Cities Century Car Produce Stress Active Toys 21st Century Viewers Speeding

Author:Chris Burden

“The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.”

Creative Century Possibility Cameras Fantastic Pens 21st Century Creative Life

Author:Carlos Fuentes

“If you young people who today belong to the first generation of the 21st century make an effort now, you may be able to create a happier, more peaceful world. But you can't take for granted that it will happen by itself, you'll need to take action.”

People Ifs World Needs Firsts May Happens Today Able Action Young Effort Generations Century Peaceful Granted 21st Century Peaceful World

Author:Dalai Lama

“The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is ... to increase the productivity of knowledge work and the knowledge worker”

Needs Important Century Increase Management Workers Productivity Contribution 21st Century Important Contributions Knowledge Workers

Author:Peter Drucker

“Cooperation will save the future. And America should lead it. Every time humanity has been in danger of extinguishing itself, our consciousness and our conscience have led us to come together. That's the big issue of the 21st century.”

Should Has Beens Bigs Together America Humanity Consciousness Issues Century Danger Conscience Cooperation 21st Century

Author:William J. Clinton

“I am a 21st century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future.”

Persons Century Nostalgia 21st Century

Author:FM-2030

“Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically. The system suppresses individual initiative, and the 21st century is all about individualism and freedom. The development of technology supported these directions.”

Individual Technology Century Development Communism Individualism Initiative 21st Century Development Of Technology

Author:Lech Walesa

“Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction.”

Fiction Century Stronger 21st Century Cumulative

Book:Notes from the Trail: Presidential Politics from the Inside Out

Source: Notes from the Trail: Presidential Politics from the Inside Out

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