Marcia L. Fudge Quotes

People want development, modern thinking. They want to encourage and support research in agriculture and other fields.

The spending in science and technology need to be to increased.

Science is inextricably linked to our economy. It has been for the last 50 years and it will be for the next 50 years.

The strength of self-reliance and self-development is that of science and technology, and the shortcut to implementing the five-year strategy is to give importance and precedence to science and technology.

It's wonderful to see more of my colleagues recognizing the importance of investing in STEM education and scientific research and development.

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.

We are the number one economy in the world, and we ought to continue to pursue those kinds of policies that ensure that we maintain that position, like innovation and like technology and like education and like just research and development and discovery.

Innovations in science and technology are the engines of the 21st-century economy; if you care about the wealth and health of your nation tomorrow, then you'd better rethink how you allocate taxes to fund science. The federal budget needs to recognize this.

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.

Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened.

Our security and independence require that more young people devote themselves to science and research.

Science is the engine that drives the economy and drives national defense.

In our State the locomotive has waked up the sleeping energies of a great people, and is transforming wasted fields into blooming gardens, and arousing men and women from the dull and heavy sleep that dwells with satisfaction upon the past, into the bright intelligence that looks to a glorious future ….

Who brings tomorrow into the present if not the scientists, technicians and engineers?

I want France to become the European hub for R&D.

Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity.

Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth.

Scientists are not these guys in lab coats deep in the inner bowels of universities and hospitals with their Bunsen burners. They're the people molding the culture that we live in, the future of our culture, and the technology we rely on every day. These are the rock stars of our time right now.

Creative universities are bedrock of every developed nation's S&T strategy.

The old rules may say we can’t protect our environment and promote economic growth at the same time, but in America, we’ve always used new technologies - we’ve used science; we’ve used research and development and discovery to make the old rules obsolete.

Capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge.

Among men who are really free, every form of industry becomes more rapidly improved - all the arts flourish more gracefully - all the sciences extend their range.

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.

Science is the future of mankind.