George W. Bush Quotes

For an emerging market that hopes to be the third largest economy in the world, you cannot do it without being innovative and disruptive. There is no choice in the matter.

We're only going to be able to compete in the world if we continue to be innovative.

Learning from the American experience, governments around the world have developed national innovation policies and programs to accelerate their economic prosperity and to help their citizens and companies compete globally.

We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

No nation has embraced Total Quality Management, e-commerce and e-government with greater enthusiasm than Dubai. Such innovations have given Dubai a competitive edge and an accelerated growth rate that few could match.

As a nation, America is at its best when we are thinking and making things and exporting to the world.

No country is ever successful in the long term... without a really strong and vibrant manufacturing base.

For a country like ours that needs to stay ahead of the world or go under, we must do great, ambitious things - like going to the moon - to survive.

The only way to continue to have a robust economy is to out-innovate other nations.

America put more money into research, into the new and the unknown than any nation in history, and the same thing with education, and those two things led us into a worldwide preeminence in a very short period of time.

All we know about the new economic world is that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness.

Our nation's security, economy, and place on the world stage depends on the success our educational system.

We need a positive economic agenda that invests in the innovation and growth that will create jobs for middle class families and ensure that America remains the world leader.

We are not concerned about innovation shifting from the U.S. I still believe that the U.S. still has capabilities for innovation.

Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

Out-innovating them is the way to beat China. And to do everything that we do in this country to support innovative policy, that drives innovation and new products and more jobs and creates jobs. You can't - you can't put a wall up around here. We tried that in the '30s. It didn't work.

This country has been economically successful because of cheap energy and cheap labor and we are never going to have these again.

The manufacturing base of the country is the hope of the country.

The major challenge facing us is to elevate our national life to the highest level of civilization and prosperity.

I'm not happy exporting jobs but we must move ahead in technology and patents. I don't like losing any jobs but we'll see new opportunities created selling products there. We'll have a net increase in economic activity, just as we did with free trade. It's tempting to want to protect our markets and stay closed. But at some point it all comes crashing down and you're hopelessly left behind. Then you are Russia.

China has come a long way from being a nation of opium addicts to the status of a global power

The societies that embrace openness will be those that compete and succeed effectively.

The United States needs to be a leader in scientific research.

We should be growing and make ourselves, as a state and a nation, more competitive. India, China and these other countries are not waiting for us.

I just want to get back to the point where America has the best of everything.