Stewart Udall Quotes

Without creation, what are we but stalled in life?

The population forecast for the United States in 1970 is 170 million. The population forecast for Russia alone in 1970 is 251 million. The implications are clear.

The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself.

There is a statistic I heard a number of years ago: if you know somebody who is 85 years old, that person was born into a world that had a third as many people as the world does today. The population has tripled in the past 85 years.

Growth is kinda built into everyone's genes. It's built into management's genes, the salesman's genes, the investors' desires. People expect companies to grow.

The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.

As the population of Georgia increased dramatically, so did development.

Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth.

In only 37 years, our population will grow by a number equivalent to all the people in the world at the beginning of World War II.

Demography, not democracy, will be the most critical factor for security and growth in the 21st century. Booming populations are a drag on developing countries, and low fertility rates are sapping growth in developed societies.

The perpetual tendency of the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is one of the general laws of animated nature, which we can have no reason to expect to change.

Our people are spreading out with the aid of the American multiplication table. Go West and see a young man with his mate of eighteen. After the lapse of 30 years, visit him again and instead of two you will fond 22.

This increase in the world's population represents humanity's victory against death.

Africa, Asia and the Middle East—the lands of the rising people.

The immediate cause of the increase of population is the excess of the births above deaths; and the rate of increase, or the period of doubling, depends upon the proportion which the excess of the births above the deaths bears to the population.

The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population.

There's going to be competition because there are not enough resources. Resources grow arithmetically, populations grow exponentially. You can't ever have enough resources and that's the foundation of this idea of competition.

If you just sit on what you've created, chances are you're not going to be around much longer.

North Carolina is not going to be left behind.

Jessie Vargas is not as good as those guys I lost to.

You have to evolve. Stagnation breeds boredom.

America can't go sideways anymore.

I don't believe in stasis - either you are growing or dying.

If you are not constantly improving and learning, then you are going to be stuck and not progress.

Our population is growing rapidly because of our good health policy. When I came into office, there were 14 million Ugandans, today there are 38 million, despite the catastrophe of AIDS, which we have also tackled. The Ugandans know and appreciate this, especially the elderly.