Sanford I. Weill Quotes

Connecting small and medium-sized businesses to international markets can create work for host country nationals alongside refugees, building economic growth and resilience in host communities.

The economic, social and cultural progress of a nation depends on citizens counting for more and having more rights.

There is a lot more hard work to do in the future for the well-being of our sisters and brothers, the people of Thailand.

We must work to help all families and all communities realize their dream of a better future.

The mandate I have received and for which I will speak with heart and head to implement over the next seven years had its four pillars - an inclusive citizenship, equality and participation and respect in a creative society creating an excellence in everything we Irish do.

Today, the grandeur of a country is measured by the extent to which it defends and extends its citizens' rights through its impulse towards total equality, by its capacity to create energy that contributes towards cultural, social and economic growth. That is how a country becomes strong, by making its citizens more powerful.

We must continue to prove to the world that we can provide a rising standard of living for all men without loss of civil rights or human dignity to any man.

Government is not just about maintaining the status quo. It's about helping people's lives to work.

I'm focused on giving Argentinians better opportunities.

I think that's what all New Zealanders who are fair-minded want - a good chance for everybody to get ahead, whether it's education or housing.

I want to see America thrive. I want to see all different families here succeed.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

America is a great country. We are so wealthy. But our one remaining challenge is to fulfill the potential of all our people. And the only way we can do that is to try to bring everybody together to a higher place.

The ultimate test of the value of a political system is whether it helps that society to establish conditions which improve the standard of living for the majority of its people.

Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.

Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

My passion is to create a better society for our future citizens.

I've spent my entire life working to invest in human beings and human communities, to help them move down the path of economic development.

There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.

Are things getting better with each generation? Yes. It's quite interesting to be living in these times, for me to witness an African-American being elected president. It's quite extraordinary.