Jim Ratcliffe Quotes

If we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore.

We want the city back on its feet. We want to have jobs for the city.

All have used the economic opportunity of a new arena project to transform their cities into the future.

Everybody talks about Pittsburgh reinventing itself and being successful in the 21st century - well, outside the city limits, it means energy jobs and manufacturing.

Ludhiana will again rise as Manchester of India if AAP comes to power.

I hear over and over again from local leaders and business owners that one of the best ways we can revitalize our cities and towns is to support brownfields cleanup efforts.

GE sells more than 96 percent of its products to the private sector, where America's future must be built. But government can help business invest in our shared future.

To have a stable economy, to have a stable democracy, and to have a modern government is not enough. We have to build new pillars of development. Education, science and technology, innovation and entrepreneurship, and more equality.

The Australia to 2050 report highlights something that is well understood by South Australians, that infrastructure plays a key role in long-term economic expansion.

The pursuit of the vibrant seems to be the universal job description of the nation's city planners nowadays. It is also part of the Obama administration's economic recovery strategy for the nation.

I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.

It is the potential for economic growth that provides the basis for the development of countries, for bringing to people essential goods and services, such as water to drink and facilities for healthcare.

I think one of the strengths of Wisconsin's economy is it's diversity - and in making sure that we're doing everything we can to have a state government that's responsive to that and being here and encouraging people to expand their businesses here.

On the one hand, Porto Monenegro is shape-shifting - it replaced a naval shipyard with a new marina - but it's also mind-shifting, opening up an array of other small business opportunities. And this shape-shifting and mind-shifting, it is exactly what we're trying to do in Montenegro.

Cities can become the engines that fuel our nation's growth and prosperity, and they can be wide gateways for families to achieve their own American dream of prosperity.

We have to look to the well-being of the Lebanese citizens and create prosperity in the country, and you can't create prosperity without stability.

The current administration has made the decision to cut dollars going for community development block grants, for various incentives to bring cities back.

A national government using New Deal programs and the massive defense spending beginning with World War II and continuing through the Cold War was Johnson's vehicle for expanding the Southern economy and making it, as he hoped, one of the more prosperous regions of the country.

Tourism in India has the potential to promote faster, sustainable and more inclusive growth. It could be used as a powerful antidote to tackle poverty.

The key to truly rebuilding our central city on a vital and sustainable foundation is people.

Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.

Industry, commerce and security are the surest roads to the happiness and prosperity of people

First class infrastructure produces first class jobs.

There is one thing that I have learned about Economic Development—that it has to do with a lot more than economics.

We have accepted there is a big role for government to create a framework where businesses can grow in all parts of the country.