John Delaney Quotes

Our goal is to upgrade the life of China's middle class. We all want to live better.

Society’s willingness to provide for the poor among them increases when the standard of living is advancing.

If you really want to get something done in Washington, it has to be done in a bi-Partisan way.

I may sound naive, since everyone's decided the next two years are going to be all about 2016, but I look at what's happened over the years when there's been divided government. That's when we've done tax reform, that's when we've done entitlement reform - to move this economy forward on these big issues.

Growth is not an objective in itself; we should be concerned with standards of living.

We want to move forward in a bipartisan fashion to solve our problems.

The idea that two political parties can't come together to get a mission done is foreign to me - and unacceptable.

We have become stronger economically; we have been successfully resolving the social problems, raising the level of living - the standards of living - of the population.

We should see better and more direct measurements of economic well being.

I think that what is truly unfortunate is when an entire party makes a decision that they're going to block every single thing that a president wants to accomplish. It's very - it's very hard to get anything done in those circumstances.

My main mission when I became Prime Minister, was to keep Singapore going and Singapore has been kept going. So, I'm happy with what I've done for Singapore.

Much of the conventional analysis of India's stature in the world relies on the all-too-familiar economic assumptions. But we are famously a land of paradoxes, and one of those paradoxes is that so many speak about India as a great power of the 21st century when we are not yet able to feed, educate and employ all our people.

Too often in Washington special interests urge us to fight one another just because we belong to different parties. It is time for this to stop and for Washington to focus on what needs to be done.

At the same time, we are keenly aware that China is still the largest developing country in the world and we need to make long and hard efforts if we are to build a moderately prosperous society in all respects and basically achieve modernization.

That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization.

Above and beyond the question of how to grow the economy there is a legitimate concern about how to grow the quality of our lives.

Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody.

I do hope that next year Republicans and Democrats will do nothing.

To live well in the second half of the 1990s and into the 21st Century, Australians have to produce and trade better than we have in the past….to improve workers' living standards and generate more jobs, we need to make major changes in the way our companies are managed and our factories produce wealth

I don't think any of us ran for the United States Senate to preside over the lowering of the American standard of living.

More people in more countries, both developing and developed, have experienced larger increases in living standards than in any prior fifty year period.

India, China, and Latin America have a tremendous stake in the people's century. As their masses learn to read and write, and as they become productive mechanics, their standard of living will double and treble.

Growth and prosperity. These are the blocks with which we must build our welfare society.

If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods. And to do that, we must understand that the quality of life is more important than the standard of living.

Believe it or not, one of the things I try to do around here is try to look for opportunities to work with people across the aisle. I know that's not the common narrative. But the truth is if you want to get anything done, that's an absolute requirement.