Theresa May Quotes

What is a government supposed to do for its people? To improve the standard of living, to help them get jobs, get kids to schools, and have access to medicine and hospitals. Government may not directly provide these public goods and services, but government must be accountable for whether or not they are delivered to citizens.

Pakistan is not about to crack down on terror groups or cut its military budget in order to build roads, schools and hospitals.

What we mean by an outcome will naturally depend on the context. Thus, for a government charged with delivering public goods, an outcome will consist of the quantities provided of such goods as intercity highways, national defense and security, environmental protection, and public education together with the arrangements by which they are financed.

In most parts of our world, the rural community dominates. The numbers of people in rural communities in the Islamic world, plus the difficulty of addressing the problems of development in rural communities, is a central issue.

Africa has no future.

Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries on earth. Security issue or no security issue, there would need to be a focus on it.

We have built tens of thousands of schools, clinics and rural roads.

In Afghanistan, there is a plan to build democracy; hundreds of thousands of troops are protecting it. There is a plan to rebuild and reconstruct there. But many thousands of Americans die from violence and poverty every year and we don't have a plan for reconstruction at home.

I take President Obama at his word that he is a Christian and was born here in America. Now, it's time that we focus on the real issues facing this country.

I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on matters of the economy; I'm not a soldier I can't take decisions on matters of defence; I'm not an educationist so I can't take decisions about education.

If you want to help Africa, you should help them out of poverty, not try to build solar cells and windmills.

I have to try and uplift the standard of living for the people in Zambia. If I cannot do that, I will have failed.

People were concerned about national security, and that precluded us from having the opportunity to break through on the issues that we cared most about - the economy, education and health care.

Liberals like using government to solve problems in OUR country and conservatives are using our government to solve problems in OTHER countries.

As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.

John Kennedy led us on a journey to discover the moon. Obama needs to lead us on a journey to rediscover, rebuild and reinvent our own backyard.

The prosperity of the State can only reflect the prosperity of its subjects …. The greater the number the skilled subjects, the greater is the potential for prosperity for king and kingdom.

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

It’s the private sector that produces the jobs, but the private sector needs roads and an educated workforce.

Foreign policy involves a good deal of domestic policy.

anti-woman, anti-immigrant, anti-gay, anti-education, anti-environment.

If you care about potholes, you have to vote. If you care about pre-k education, you have to vote. If you care about women's health care, you have to vote.

Since the end of World War II, U.S. presidents of both parties have recognized that foreign and domestic policy do not have to be pursued at the expense of each other.

Massachusetts is a global community.

Brexit stops Britain from being Great Britain.