Barack Obama Quotes

Cutting our education budget, that's not a smart choice. That will not help America compete with China.

Leaders in China and India realize that science and technology lead to success and wealth. But many countries in the West graduate students into the unemployment line by teaching skills that were necessary to live in 1950.

Technology is driving the innovation. Technology is driving the creativity. Technology and the use of that is going to determine our workers' ability to compete in the 21st century global marketplace.

The future of Norway isn't about competing on being the cheapest but the most innovative. We have an expensive welfare state, and the only answer to continue that way is to become more competitive, especially on knowledge.

We're not necessarily the ski boat, we're the skier. There are countries like Japan and Korea and others who are the ski boat at this point, but we're getting pulled right behind them.

We know that if we're going to remain economically competitive in the world, and viable as a civic democracy, that we're going to have to get more people educated to higher levels.

We have the advantage over other global competitors in that we know how to assimilate immigrants.

Our future progress and prosperity depend upon our ability to equal, if not surpass, other nations in the enlargement and advance of science, industry and commerce.

Governor Romney, how many fewer college degrees would it take to make America more competitive?

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.

As a nation, we must unite in recognizing the mounting evidence that the U.S. is falling behind international competitors in producing students ready for 21st-century jobs.

At the end of the day, we have to find a way to compete better with the world.

Let's face reality. To ensure Hong Kong remains competitive, we have to uphold a very low tax regime.

Whether we are in or out of the E.U., we must deliver reform at home in order to compete abroad in the 21st century.

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

We in America can compete successfully with anyone in the world, and we're going to.

Be careful what you say. It comes true. It comes true. I had to leave home in order to see the world logically, logic the new way of seeing. I learned to think that mysteries are for explanation. I enjoy the simplicity. Concrete pours out of my mouth to cover the forests with freeways and sidewalks. Give me plastics, periodical tables, TV dinners with vegetables no more complex than peas mixed with diced carrots. Shine floodlights into dark corners: no ghosts.

You have to have an international reference of competition. You have to go beyond your home.

The lifeblood of our business is that R&D spend. There's nothing that flows through a pipe or down a wire or anything else. We have to continuously create new innovation that lets people do something they didn't think they could do the day before.

I think we have to be very sensitive to our need to compete, moving forward, and a lot of that is tied to tax policy.

I don't believe that one has to tear down the cinema screen in order to renew cinema. But new input and new energy are lacking. They are flowing above all into the television technologies. We must, therefore, concentrate on the CD-ROM.

We need to lengthen the school day. We need to lengthen the school year. Our calendar is based upon the agrarian economy. Children in India and China are going to school 25, 30, 35 more days a year. They're just working harder than us. So, we need more time, particularly for disadvantaged children, who aren't getting those supports at home.

Only one in command: that's the way in the home And the way in the state when it must find Measures best for mankind.

If once again Germany destabilizes Europe, then Germany will be not be divided again, but wiped off the map. East and West have the necessary technology in order to enforce this verdict. If Germany begins again, there is no other solution.

A world based on machine images is a world filled with boundaries. In a machine, every piece knows its place.