Michael Mullen Quotes

I have met parents all over the world, and they all just want to raise their kids to a higher standard than they were raised with.

Thinking in generations also means enabling our young to have a decent standard of living.

Chile announces a new refuge in these countries for the industry, the friendship, and all the citizens of the globe

We share a common planet, and the world has learned the hard way that we have to get along and work together. We have learned, too, that cooperation can benefit all.

We must accept the fact that transport and communications will bring the world in close relations and the youth of the world should have standards and ideals in common.

We and our fellow men of all countries must realize that we share this wonderful, beautiful, salubrious earth as brothers and that there never will be anywhere else to go.

As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.

To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous resources in our grasp to the problem of creating a genuinely good life for yourselves and your children.

All of us aspire to give our children something more, leave a country to our children that is a better one, a stronger one, with better jobs and growth and opportunity.

A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology.

If we really wish to put an end to our ongoing international and social problems we must eventually declare Earth and all of its resources as the common heritage of all the world's people.

Real government is about looking beyond the vested to the national interest, setting up the necessary conditions to enable the next, more enabled and more empowered generation to achieve a country as prosperous, a people as content, as ours deserve to be.

I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too much guilt.

I don't care if I die - look, I'm old - but you want your kids to have good times and a good life.

We encourage China to engage as a good global citizen and we are clear-eyed about where differences do lie.

Sport allows us to engage in dialogue and to build bridges, and it may even have the capacity to reshape international relations. The Olympic Games embody perfectly this universal mission.

Our goal is to upgrade the life of China's middle class. We all want to live better.

The problems that the world faces - from nuclear proliferation to climate change - can't be tackled by the West alone. They need a coalition of not just West and East, but they need a coalition of Christian and Jew and Muslim.

We know who speaks for the nations. But who speaks for humanity? Who speaks for earth?

Numerous technicians in every state are doing their utmost to achieve the dream of free, unlimited flight and it is precisely here where changes can be made which would have a radical effect on our whole way of life. The borders between countries would lose their significance, because they could not be closed off from each other. Linguistic differences would disappear, as human mobility increased. National defense would cease to devour the best resources of nations as it would become impossible in itself. And the necessity of resolving disagreements among nations in some other way than by bloody battles would, in its turn, lead us to eternal peace.

No nation can build a safer, better world alone.

A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation.

Making these changes is a matter of life and death for our country, and it will give our people a chance to lead a better life.

Global coherence demands a permanent strategic cooperation culture at all levels.

In my life, I have learned that most people want the same thing. They are not driven by class resentment. What they want most is to make a better life for themselves and their families - and to know that the opportunities for their children will be better than they were for themselves.