Julia Gillard Quotes

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

We in the majority have worked hard to empower people to create opportunities, to make jobs, to do things that turn America into a place where people can achieve their dreams.

With patience, persistence, and partnership, we can create economic opportunity for every person willing to work hard for it.

The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries.

To have a stable economy, to have a stable democracy, and to have a modern government is not enough. We have to build new pillars of development. Education, science and technology, innovation and entrepreneurship, and more equality.

We choose forward. We choose inclusion. We choose growing together. We choose American economic might and muscle, standing strong on the bedrock of the American ideal: a strong, empowered and ever-growing middle class.

The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.

Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.

In every stump speech I give, I speak about the fact that people who dream and achieve enormous success do not make us poorer - they make us better off.

Abe Ribicoff believes in that American dream. I believe it from the bottom of my heart, and your sons and daughters, too, can have the American dream come true.

A dynamic economy begins with a good education.

We must give Oklahoma families the opportunity to thrive and prosper. We must give all Oklahomans the tools necessary to pursue the American dream. And then, we must get out of the way.

We have to educate our way to a better economy.

The state does not possess trade or industry. Its wealth is the wealth of the people and the people’s wealth is not possible without the spread of these sciences amongst them so that they may know the ways for acquiring wealth.

I love entrepreneurship because that's what makes this country grow, and if I can help companies grow, I am creating jobs; I am setting foundations for future generations. It sends the message that the American Dream is alive and well.

America is still the land of opportunity, and hard work is still a pathway to success.

Conservatives don't love business for some abstract reason. We love it because of what it offers our children. Hope.

I'm focused on giving Argentinians better opportunities.

To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.

The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it's by making poor people richer.

Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.

Africa will thrive.

People everywhere in the world are hungry for economic opportunity. And it's about a lot more than being able to make money.

The way forward for Africa is investment.

Are we a nation of guarantees or are we a nation of opportunities to achieve the American dream?