Chen Shui-bian Quotes

Africa will thrive.

Go ask Virginia— go ask even noble Maryland ... to show you her people, canals, railroads, universities, schools, charities, commerce cities, and cultivated areas.

Africa is the future.

The way forward for Africa is investment.

We're going to make America a better place.

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

People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is that India's economy continues to grow at clipping pace, 8% and above, that itself brings host of benefits to the people. It brings better roads, it brings better schools, brings more money to the communities, it brings more jobs.

An overall trend of political moderation in Latin America makes for far less interesting headlines, but it also makes for far better lives for our people.

I have to try and uplift the standard of living for the people in Zambia. If I cannot do that, I will have failed.

A dynamic economy begins with a good education.

Malawians must look forward toward a better future.

Iraq is a better place, absolutely worth it.

People want development. Not everyone knows what it means. Same as jobs. Not everyone knows what a job is, but people want jobs.

President Obama believes in a country where we invest in education, in roads and bridges, in science, and in the future so we can create new opportunities so the next kid can make it big and the kid afer that and the kid after that, that's what President Obama believes.

We have to educate our way to a better economy.

The health of a nation is not just about its consumption expenditures …. one of the things that makes America such a great nation, and why so many people aspire to this American ideal of middle-class security, is that it's about more than that. It's about more than how much you can purchase with the dollar. It's about this feeling of security and about being able to give your kids a better life than you had. And that is really the foundation—one of the major founding principles of our country

The real world is somebody is going to win; somebody is going to lose. There are costs to everything, but if you make the long term investment which is investment in education, public health and infrastructure, then we will have a better world.

States and nations do not build wealth by storing cash in a bank vault. They build wealth by expanding human solutions to human problems in order that more and more of her people — living and yet to be born — are able to enjoy a higher quality of life.

Remember, our focus should remain on development because it is development alone that can transform this nation as well as the lives of its people.

I want to build the India that we all want.

People of Pakistan want only development, prosperity, and peace.

We need to stop arguing about things that don't help Argentina grow.

Innovation is often the hidden thing, because we can't put numbers to it. And yet it's the thing that defines the way we live, the things we'd like to have for everyone whether it's health or education.

Let us tackle the big issues with bold ideas that transform Iowa to accomplish our shared mission to grow Iowa, and realize our shared vision of Iowa as the best place to live, work and raise a family.

I'm still thinking and hoping there's an opportunity for people to have better lives and that significant change can occur.