Homegrown Solutions Quotes

I think we learned a lesson and paid a bitter price when we put troops on the ground on a long-term basis in Iraq and Afghanistan. Let us support a homegrown, indigenous, and locally inspired effort to bring stability to the region.

Let's treat this country first and foremost.

Our priority will be to look after the interests of our own country and its citizens.

We should be able to support our own economy within our own borders.

Rwanda is a very open and free country. Key to our recovery as a nation has a range of grassroots, citizen-centered polices we call "homegrown solutions." The idea that Rwanda is highly controlled from the center belies the reality, which is that citizens in every village have a powerful say in how things get done. We prize accountability and Rwandans are quickly adapting themselves to the possibilities of a digital economy.

There is a feeling within our system that defence equipment can't be made here and should be imported. I wanted to break this myth, so we spent our money and made a product to prove we have capability in this country, so don't just brush us aside.

We must look after our own before lining the pockets of overseas countries and investors.

India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.

Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.