Christopher Priest Quotes

Africa will thrive.

Remember, our focus should remain on development because it is development alone that can transform this nation as well as the lives of its people.

The only way you multiply resources is with technology. To really affect poverty, energy, health, education, or anything else - there is no other way.

We have a growing interest in Africa’s success.

I think that Africa has made quite rapid progress and a lot of the conflicts that we saw on the continent have abated.

The way forward for Africa is investment.

We need a force that recognizes that only through development and liberty, through education and health care, through better priorities and wiser investments, can we achieve the stability we seek.

You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.

A narrative that branded Africa as little more than an economic, political and social basket case was not likely to provide the investment needed to drive development.

Today, the future of Venezuela won and, as we said, we repeat to everyone: there is a path, there is a path for progress, for the future, to make Venezuela a greater country.

You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.

Rwanda really did take very strong steps towards development. I mean, this place is unrecognizable. There's a very good management of economy and resources - it's a success story, and that's great.

And I think that Africa is making progress that the world needs to recognize and assist the continent to continue on that path.

Development donors ... put a positive spin on awful recipient governments by asserting that while things are bad, they are getting better.

Instead of condemning Israel, the underdeveloped countries should take it as an example of how to build an advanced, prosperous nation.

Except for a few oil-rich countries, no developing country has successfully modernized without slowing population growth.

The stronger we make our country the more she will give back

People of Pakistan want only development, prosperity, and peace.

The fate of the African continent does not f-ing depend on a load of f-ing musicians in Hyde Park singing f-ing s-t songs to kids.

When the history of African development is written, it will be clear that a turning point involved the empowerment of women.

Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.

We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community relations, Muslims and non Muslims, this is what has given us the advantage.

A strong, educated middle class is what made America the greatest country in the world.

Africa is no more this poor continent. It's on the march.

Poverty and backwardness in the midst of clear waters and verdant mountains is no good, nor is it to have prosperity and wealth while the environment deteriorates.