“The Government's mission is to build a strong and fair Australia capable of meeting the new challenges of the 21st century.” GovernmentStrongChallengesCenturyCapableFairsMeetingsMissionsAustralia21st CenturyNew Challenges Author:Kevin Rudd
“You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st century — when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations were displaced and governments were threatened by the confluence of it all — and ask ourselves: What were we thinking? How did we not panic when the evidence was so obvious that we’d crossed some growth/climate/natural resource/population redlines all at once?” ThinkingWorldYearsFirstsLooksGovernmentAsksEnergyGrowthNaturalCitiesWonderRecordsCenturyEvidenceResourcesClimatePopulationObviousDecadesPanicFlood21st CenturyThreatenedNatural ResourcesDroughtWorld PopulationConfluence Author:Thomas Friedman
“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.” IfsMadeStatesHandsGovernmentPresidentAbilityEconomyCenturyPolicyChina21st CenturyRomneyGlobal EconomyBathtubs Author:Jennifer Granholm