James Dobbins Quotes

We just don’t have enough money to be trying to create nations.

President Bush is going to establish elections there in Iraq. He's going to rebuild the infrastructure. He's going to create jobs. He said if it works there, he'll try it here.

I built Kosovo for 10 years.

Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.

I’d rather build highways here then try nation building in Iraq

Building a state and fostering a national identity take time and good leadership—bold ideas, initiative, and the willingness to compromise.

Economic growth is not sustainable without nation-building and, even of greater importance, state building.

The world has shown that if you provide capital and expertise to an area that is starved for capital and expertise, really good things will happen.

The U.S. cannot impose freedom, security, and unity in Iraq by force.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

There is no escape from the cost of public needs.

Deficits aren't always bad if you invest the money.

Those who say we can continue to indefinitely borrow from our children and grandchildren and generations to come in fact are eroding our ability to do what we ought to do in education, in health care and in other things.

This is not the time for knee jerk populist reactions to problems. These will only discourage foreign investment and make matters worse.

The necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

The real world is somebody is going to win; somebody is going to lose. There are costs to everything, but if you make the long term investment which is investment in education, public health and infrastructure, then we will have a better world.

Nation building is a very daunting enterprise.

Nation’s that don’t invest in the future tend not to do well there.

A healthy national infrastructure requires not just competent engineers but also a government—and a public—willing to pay for it.

We believe infrastructure is key to economic growth, and we will do what we can to develop infrastructure in India.

You have to spend a lot of money to build strong sides.

To give him his credit, I never thought I'd say this, but Donald Trump was talking about the importance of investing in jobs and infrastructure and in the economies across the country, not just the main cities, and that's right.

When you start to look at completing the development of a modern professional army, when you talk about maturing a democracy, when you talk about development and the economic conditions that have to be addressed, a decade is not too short a period of time to talk about.

Putting in place the building blocks for the future of our economy is common sense.

I think we need to invest more in America.