Barack Obama Quotes

You always want to try to make something new, and, of course, America is the world leader in economics today.

To ensure that the free world continues to set the rules of the road in the global economy, America and its allies must work together to continue to be the world's centers of innovation and technological advancement.

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.

I have to tell you that the innovation and the technology and the entrepreneurship of the world still lies in the United States of America.

No nation has embraced Total Quality Management, e-commerce and e-government with greater enthusiasm than Dubai. Such innovations have given Dubai a competitive edge and an accelerated growth rate that few could match.

Britain is the ideas factory of the world and has huge potential to benefit from the next technological revolution. Our future lies in being a high skilled, high innovation, free enterprise nation.

The only way to continue to have a robust economy is to out-innovate other nations.

America has an economy reversing relative to other nations in the world. And I want to turn that around. And one way I know to turn it around is to get everyone excited about what it is to innovate again.

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

You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.

The single most important factor in determining America's success in the 21st century will be maintaining our ability to be an innovative and creative society.

When you innovate, you create new industries that then boost your economy. And when you create new industries and that becomes part of your culture, your jobs can't go overseas because no one else has figured out how to do it yet.

Innovations in science and technology are the engines of the 21st-century economy; if you care about the wealth and health of your nation tomorrow, then you'd better rethink how you allocate taxes to fund science. The federal budget needs to recognize this.

No economy can succeed without a high-quality workforce, particularly in an age of globalization and technical change.

Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain power.

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

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

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

The country that out educates us today will out compete us tomorrow.

The United States’ economic preeminence is its own to lose.

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

One thing America gets right is being open to innovation. Canada and Scandinavia have to do better on that.

Our country has the potential not just to be the giant of Africa but a major economic giant in the world.

For an emerging market that hopes to be the third largest economy in the world, you cannot do it without being innovative and disruptive. There is no choice in the matter.

Federal research is vital to the innovation that drives our local economy and global competitiveness.