Paul Kagame Quotes

Future prosperity will be built on private sector growth.

One of the challenges over the last decade is America has done experiments in nation building in places like Iraq and Afghanistan and we've neglected, for example, developing our own economy, our own energy sectors, our own education system. And it's very hard for us to project leadership around the world when we're not doing what we need to do.

Strong economic growth, and especially a significant increase in private sector investment, is the only sustainable path forward for Rwanda.

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

There is a direct connection that cannot be severed between the diplomatic process and growth and prosperity.

When roads are built, children can read, then jobs and prosperity will follow.

There is no western, capitalistic country in which the conditions of the masses have not improved in an unprecedented way.

I dream of India becoming a great economic superpower.

As President, I am determined to offer leadership to overcome our current economic problems. My goal is for jobs for all who want to work and economic opportunity for all who want to achieve.

Progress is not striving for economic justice or fairness, but economic growth.

A lot of people got a lot of money around Kansas City, Missouri. If we didn't, KC Trends would be out of business.

North Carolina is not going to be left behind.

Political and legal institutions play a central role in setting the environment that can nurture prosperity and economic growth.

Around the year 2000, countries such as France, the Netherlands and the US were already five times as wealthy as in 1930. Yet nowadays our biggest challenges are not leisure and boredom, but stress and uncertainty.

The quickest and surest way to production, prosperity, and economic growth is through private enterprise. The best way for governments to encourage private enterprise is to establish justice, to enforce contracts, to insure domestic peace and tranquility, to protect private property, and to secure the blessings of liberty including economic liberty - which means to stop putting obstacles in the way of private enterprise.

As long as we place millions of Indians at the canter of our thought process, as long as we think of their welfare, their future, their opportunities for self realization we are on the right track. For India can grow, prosper, flourish only if they grow, prosper, flourish. We cannot grow by any esoteric strategies. Our purchasing power, our economic strength, our marketplace all depends on the prosperity of our people.

True prosperity can only come from a healthy economy and sound money. That can only be achieved in a free society.

I think the main figure that matters to all of us, including people in the media, is: How does GDP per capita grow? And those figures have been very good. There is a huge flux both up and down, so it isn't like we're all static in status. What's important is that pie grows.

We live in a world community, and economic contact has partly contributed to that. It’s also the case that economic opportunity opened up by economic contact has helped to a great extent to reduce poverty in many parts of the world.

Productivity growth is the only possible way to achieve prosperity.

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.

Competition is the most promising means to achieve and secure prosperity. It alone enables people in their role of consumer to gain from economic progress. It ensures that all advantages which result from higher productivity may eventually be enjoyed.

The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.

Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.