Steve Case Quotes

We're only going to be able to compete in the world if we continue to be innovative.

We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

We are not concerned about innovation shifting from the U.S. I still believe that the U.S. still has capabilities for innovation.

Learning from the American experience, governments around the world have developed national innovation policies and programs to accelerate their economic prosperity and to help their citizens and companies compete globally.

The Chinese government clearly sees Internet and mobile innovation as a major driver of its global economic competitiveness going forward.

At the end of the day, we have to find a way to compete better with the world.

If we don't concentrate on resurrecting science, we're not going to be able to compete in a global economy.

I aim to be a competitive nation.

Obviously China is clearly taking the lead in some areas, but when it comes to the most advanced innovation, it's still America.

The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore.

Out-innovating them is the way to beat China. And to do everything that we do in this country to support innovative policy, that drives innovation and new products and more jobs and creates jobs. You can't - you can't put a wall up around here. We tried that in the '30s. It didn't work.

This country has been economically successful because of cheap energy and cheap labor and we are never going to have these again.

Science is inextricably linked to our economy. It has been for the last 50 years and it will be for the next 50 years.

Africa has no time to lose. The global economy is fast leaving our continent behind.

Science is the engine that drives the economy and drives national defense.

The history of economic growth is the history of people making more with less and shifting into new jobs that were unheard of in the previous generation.

I'm not happy exporting jobs but we must move ahead in technology and patents. I don't like losing any jobs but we'll see new opportunities created selling products there. We'll have a net increase in economic activity, just as we did with free trade. It's tempting to want to protect our markets and stay closed. But at some point it all comes crashing down and you're hopelessly left behind. Then you are Russia.

Governor Romney, how many fewer college degrees would it take to make America more competitive?

We live in a dynamic time, where the rate of change and the rate of innovation are very high. It’s not equal in all segments or sectors of the economy, but we are seeing a lot of innovation in certain sectors, and I expect that to continue.

Capitalism should not be thought of as an ideology, but instead should be thought of as an operating system. Think of your iPhone. Your iPhone merges hardware with software. Apps and hardware. Now think about all the hardware as the physical reality all around you, and think of the apps as entrepreneurial activity, creative energy. And in-between, you have an operating system. As you have advances in hardware, you have advances in software. And the operating system needs to keep up. It needs to be patched, it needs to be updated, new releases have to happen. And all of these things have to happen symbiotically. The operating system needs to keep getting more and more advanced to keep up with innovation.

I just want to get back to the point where America has the best of everything.

In India, we have the opportunity to give innovation the kind of scale that no other country in the world can.

As a nation, America is at its best when we are thinking and making things and exporting to the world.

Globalization and technical change are the guarantee of our future prosperity. And reversing on that will not only make things worse, but it will make things worse for a very large number of people around the world who have benefitted - people in China and India who have been dragged out of the most awful poverty.

Blockchain is an innovative technology with the power to change society and is gaining the world's attention as a technology to enhance the competitiveness of the urban economy.