“We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs.” JobsCommunityDevelopmentInfrastructureRebuilding Author:Carol Moseley Braun
“We invest in early childhood education. We invest additional job training dollars. We make sure that we've got a strong research and development strategy so that we continue to innovate. Rebuilding our infrastructure, which we know will attract businesses.” KnowsJobsStrongChildhoodDevelopmentTrainingResearchStrategyDollarsInfrastructureRebuildingEarly ChildhoodResearch And DevelopmentEarly Childhood EducationJob Training Author:Barack Obama
“The political controversy surrounding this Boston's Big Dig could have the effect of throwing cold water on any plans for farsighted infrastructure development around the country.” CountryBigsPoliticalWaterPlansEffectsColdDevelopmentThrowingControversyInfrastructureBostonCold Water Author:Andrew Natsios
“If the United States is promoting the development of exploits, of vulnerabilities, of insecurity in this critical infrastructure, and we're not fixing it when we find it, instead we put it on the shelf so we can use it the next time we want to launch an attack against some foreign country. We're leaving ourselves at risk.” IfsWantCountryStatesUseNextUnitedUnited StatesRiskDevelopmentLeavingCriticalVulnerabilityInsecurityNext TimeShelvesInfrastructurePromotingExploitsFixingForeign Countries Author:Edward Snowden
“While the rich reap most of the benefits of technological development, the poor bear an unequal burden of dealing with the consequences of the resulting increased pollution. The poor continue to live in greatest proximity to the sources of pollution, the infrastructure and machinery of industry. They work in the most polluted and physically dangerous workplaces. And these same individuals, living and working closest to the sources of environmental catastrophe, are also the ones most lacking decent health care.” CareIndividualPoorRichDangerousSourceDevelopmentIndustryBearsBenefitsConsequenceEnvironmentalBurdenHealth CareDecentPollutionClosestLackingTechnologicalWorkplaceCatastropheInfrastructureMachineryReapProximityTechnological Development Author:James H. Cone
“My solutions are to include Africa in the global economy, and not African charity, AIDS research, but African infrastructure development. And I think that Africa can import and needs everything the whole world can manufacture. And they have got enough money to pay for it. It's just that the money is in the ground.” ThinkingWorldNeedsEnoughWholePayEconomyDevelopmentSolutionsResearchCharityAidsWhole WorldInfrastructureImportsGlobal Economy Author:Andrew Young
“The whole infrastructure of air travel was, and is, part of government policy. It is not a natural development of a free economic system - at least not in the way that is claimed. The same is true of the roads, of course.” WayWholeGovernmentCoursesNaturalAirEconomicPolicyDevelopmentInfrastructureEconomic SystemsAir TravelGovernment Policy Author:Noam Chomsky
“The Soviets are not just looking at Moscow, they have a very extensive program of not only research, development, they have built this radar net around the whole country. One of those radars has become infamous because it's a clear violation of the ABM Treaty. They have an infrastructure and they are well prepared to develop a nationwide defensive system.” WellsCountryWholeClearDevelopmentResearchBuiltProgramPreparedInfrastructureViolationTreatiesRadarMoscowInfamous Author:Fred Ikle
“The concept of the "information society" is both vague and all-embracing. Different participants meant different things by it. In practice, though, World Summit on the Information Society only dealt with a small number of issues: ICTs and human rights (to some extent), ICTs and development (to some extent), infrastructure finance and Internet governance. Very large aspects of what might have been included in the "information society" were not really discussed.” WorldHumansHas BeensDifferentMightNumbersPracticeIssuesRightsInformationDevelopmentInternetConceptsAspectHuman RightsFinanceDifferent ThingsVagueMight Have BeenInfrastructureGovernanceSummitParticipantsSmall NumbersInformation SocietyIct Author:David Souter
“[ Big infrastructure investment mentioned by Donald Trump] that would be a welcome development. We'll see if he wants to deliver on that. The truth is that if he does, we want to see infrastructure development too.” IfsWantDoeBigsWould BeDevelopmentTrumpTruth IsInvestmentWelcomeInfrastructure Author:Keith Ellison
“We are growing the economy in smart ways and rebuilding our infrastructure and investing in science and development and that we stay true to those values that helped to get us here.” WayValuesEconomyGrowingDevelopmentSmartInvestingInfrastructureStay TrueRebuilding Author:Barack Obama
“Lincoln was a modernizer, so to speak. He believed in economic development. As a Whig before the war he favored what we would call infrastructure spending, government appropriation for canals, railroads, river and harbor improvements, and a tariff to protect industry. He believed in this market revolution that was sweeping across Northern society. He himself benefited from it in his own life.” WarGovernmentSpeakEconomicRevolutionDevelopmentIndustryProtectRiversSpendingImprovementInfrastructureHarborsSweepingRailroadsEconomic DevelopmentCanalsAppropriationTariffs Author:Eric Foner
“Liberia has to take primary responsibility for its own reform agenda. But our resources are limited. We have to attract the private sector to get jobs to our people that will enable us to raise the government revenue, but to do that we have to build infrastructure. It's a very complex problem of development we are facing here.” PeopleProblemGovernmentJobsResponsibilityDevelopmentResourcesRaisesComplexesReformPrimariesAgendasRevenueInfrastructurePrivate SectorComplex Problems Author:Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
“Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market.” LooksLevelsDevelopmentCostSkillsSmartLaborAccessInfrastructureTransportationWorkforceTelecommunicationsSmart BusinessTransportation Infrastructure Author:Janet Napolitano
“In every Indigenous community I've been in, they absolutely do want community infrastructure and they do want development, but they want it on their own terms. They want to be able to use their national resources and their assets in a way that protects and sustains them. Our territories are our wealth, the major assets we have. And Indigenous people use and steward this property so that they can achieve and maintain a livelihood, and achieve and maintain that same livelihood for future generations.” PeopleWayWantUseAbleTermCommunityWealthGenerationsAchieveDevelopmentProtectMajorsResourcesPropertyAssetsTerritoryInfrastructureIndigenousFuture GenerationLivelihoodStewardsIndigenous People Author:Rebecca Adamson