National Capability Quotes

Its easy for a country to talk about global affairs but unless you can do something about it, you are not a player.

You are a large country, you have many resources, and you have people who are highly capable.

[People] are woefully underestimating this country and what it can achieve.

Let us put Germany, so to speak, in the saddle! you will see that she can ride.

It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.

I really and definitely think that France has the capability to come forward. The EU should maintain their own position, without influence.

It's not easy to get human beings into orbit. So far only three nations have been able to do that, with all the resources that they put together. And I'm just a little skeptical that that's going to be done by the private sector without making use of what has been done by the government.

It is out of the question to suppose that any other nation, with no interest of its own at stake, would do for the Koreans what they were utterly unable to do for themselves