Helen Zille Quotes

There are huge challenges ahead for this country but also huge opportunities. We can make this country stronger and fairer.

We must regain our vision and hope and move our country forward on an agenda of peace and justice.

The B Team can catalyse initiatives.

Nations do not grow in strength … by the doing of easy things.

The major challenge facing us is to elevate our national life to the highest level of civilization and prosperity.

The progress of a nation can alone prevent degeneration. There must be new life and purpose or there will be weakness and decay. There must be broadening of thought as well as broadening of trade. Territorial expansion is not alone and always necessary to national advancement. There must be a constant movement toward a higher and nobler civilization, a civilization that shall make its conquests without resort to war, and achieve its greatest victories pursuing the arts of peace. In our present situation, duty and duty alone should prescribe the boundary of our responsibilities and the scope of our undertakings.

For the progress of the nation, what is needed is discipline.

Remember, our focus should remain on development because it is development alone that can transform this nation as well as the lives of its people.

Luxembourg has always been a country that has tried to reinvent its own future.

All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given.

I am not worried about the country. I'm just worried about anything that gums up the potential of the country. And right now, it's pretty gummed up.

I want to make Mexico the best country to live in.

There are those people who don't want change. Well there needs to be a coalition for change amongst the hard-working mainstream majority of the country to crack on and sort out Britain's problems.

We should stay on the right track to the 21st century. Opportunity alone is not enough. I want to build an America in the 21st century in which all Americans take personal responsibility for themselves, their families, their communities and their country.

I think that people are able to see that I am working hard, that I am striving openly, honestly and sincerely to achieve the results the results our country needs. I think that they are also able to see that not all goes well. Our people are smart and sharp-sighted. Yet, I believe that the main thing is to sincerely aspire to achieve the maximum, so that the country feels more secure and people live better. That's precisely how I am trying to go about my work.

We've made progress in our country, and it's been the Constitution that permitted that to happen.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated. Any nation that is progressive is led by people who have had the privilege of studying.

We have put our country on solid ground, but let me tell you: The next five years are much, much more important. The next five years are about turning the good news in our economy into a good life for you and your family.

It takes a long time to turn a big country around. Just be of good cheer and keep working on it.

Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.

If we make consistent effort, based on proper education, we can change the world.

You know, as Secretary of State, I've been privileged to represent this great country, and I know its strengths, and I know its challenges. One of its strengths is the belief - here and abroad - that this is a place where you get ahead on merit. It doesn't matter where you came from; it matters where you're going.

That a country, [England], eminently distinguished for its mechanical and manufacturing ingenuity, should be indifferent to the progress of inquiries which form the highest departments of that knowledge on whose more elementary truths its wealth and rank depend, is a fact which is well deserving the attention of those who shall inquire into the causes that influence the progress of nations.

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development... For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.... Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.

Women have come a long way, but it never fails to sadden me when I see younger women saying we have to overcome some obstacles.