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  • Food is about agriculture, about ecology, about man's relationship with nature, about the climate, about nation-building, cultural struggles, friends and enemies, alliances, wars, religion. It is about memory and tradition and, at times, even about sex.

    Sex   Memories   War  
    Mark Kurlansky (2013). “Choice Cuts”, p.10, Random House
  • We understand it still that there is no easy road to freedom. We know it well that none of us acting alone can achieve success. We must therefore act together as a united people, for national reconciliation, for nation building, for the birth of a new world. Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another and suffer the indignity of being the skunk of the world. Let freedom reign.

    Presidential Inaugural Speech, delivered 10 May 1994, Pretoria, South Africa
  • We want to make nation-building a people's movement.

    People   Movement   Want  
  • As Commander in Chief, I will maintain the strongest military in the world, keep faith with our troops and go after those who would do us harm. But after a decade of war, I think we all recognize we've got to do some nation building here at home, rebuilding our roads, our bridges and especially caring for our Veterans who sacrificed so much for our freedom.

    Military   War   Home  
    Source: genius.com
  • We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building.

    1922 Speech to the Principles of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, NewYork, 25 Nov.
  • We are all equal children before our mother; and India asks each one of us, in whatsoever role we play in the complex drama of nation-building, to do our duty with integrity, commitment and unflinching loyalty to the values enshrined in our Constitution.

    "I will be judged by the critical lens of history: Pranab Mukherjee". www.indiablooms.com. July 24, 2017.
  • One of the challenges over the last decade is America has done experiments in nation building in places like Iraq and Afghanistan and we've neglected, for example, developing our own economy, our own energy sectors, our own education system. And it's very hard for us to project leadership around the world when we're not doing what we need to do.

    Source: genius.com
  • And this is an administration - we're not into nation-building, we're focused on justice. And we're going to get justice. It's going to take a while, probably. But I'm a patient man. Nothing will diminish my will and my determination - nothing.

    Determination   War   Men  
  • We must abandon the failed policy of nation-building and regime change that Hillary Clinton pushed in Iraq, in Libya, in Egypt and in Syria. Instead, we must work with all of our allies who share our goal of destroying ISIS and stamping out Islamic terrorism and doing it now, doing it quickly.

    Islamic   Egypt   Isis  
    "Donald Trump Acceptance Speech Full Transcript" by Rajiv Poddar, scribie.com. July 23, 2016.
  • Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in the sense that it was the United States initial or baptismal experience in nation-building.

    "Author Q&A: Miguel Syjuco revisits the Philippines' troubled past in Ilustrado". Interview with Brian Lynch, www.straight.com. October 28, 2010.
  • If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

    "Security and Diplomacy: Essential Documents". Book by Arvind Gupta, Mukul Chaturvedi, Akshay Joshi (p. 144), 2004.
  • Let the professionals like doctors & engineers teach in schools once a week. Let's make teaching a national movement necessary for Nation building.

  • I don't think our troops ought to be used for what's called nation building.

    War   Thinking   Troops  
    Presidential Debate in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, October 11, 2000.
  • Bush humble foreign policy was hijacked into nation-building.

  • President Obama and Democrats won a mandate to move us forward with jobs, healthcare reform, equality, and nation building here at home.

    Jobs   Moving   Home  
    "President Obama and Democrats Won Embracing Demography as Destiny" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.
  • America does not need to continue to have regime change throughout the world, nation-building.

    America   Doe   Needs  
    Source: abcnews.go.com
  • When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.

    "If Clark is Schwarzenegger, who is Huffington?" by John Mercurio, www.cnn.com. September 25, 2003.
  • Afghanistan would have been difficult enough without Iraq. Iraq made it impossible. The argument that had we just focused on Afghanistan we'd now be okay is persuasive, but it omits the fact that we weren't supposed to get involved in nation-building in Afghanistan.

    Iraq   Facts   Impossible  
    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • I think the American people recognize is after a decade of war it's time to do some nation building here at home. And what we can now do is free up some resources, to, for example, put Americans back to work, especially our veterans, rebuilding our roads, our bridges, our schools, making sure that, you know, our veterans are getting the care that they need when it comes to post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, making sure that the certifications that they need for good jobs of the future are in place.

    Jobs   War   Stress  
    Source: genius.com
  • When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.

    "Zaha Hadid: Pushing the Envelope of Design". Interview with Serena Guen and Alexander Heller, suitcasemag.com. March 22, 2016.
  • I think that before you take on nation building in your mind's eye as to how it should be, you'd better have a clear understanding if this is doable and will work.

  • As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.

    Country   Years   World  
  • India is more than a sum of its contradictions, any truism about India can be contradicted with another truism. There is no fixed stereotype. But even thinking about India makes clear the immensity of the nation-building challenge.

  • I think the problem with John Bolton is he disagrees with President Trump's foreign policy. He would be closer to John McCain's foreign policy. John Bolton still believes the Iraq war was a good idea. He still believes that regime change is a good idea. He still believes that nation-building is a good idea.

    War   Believe   Thinking  
    Source: abcnews.go.com
  • Nation building is our central task, both in Afghanistan and in Iraq. And states, nations can't just be built with military power. Despite all difficulties, it's very inspiring to see how the Kurds, the Arab Sunnis and the Shiites are coming together here, how they're jointly defining the basis on which their state is to be built, the political course this state will pursue and who is to receive which cabinet positions.

    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • I don't think we should be engaged in nation-building. It's not our job to turn foreign nations into democratic utopias, to try to turn Iraq into Switzerland. It is the military's job to hunt down and kill our enemies, to kill ISIS before they murder American citizens and they wage jihad.

    "Ted Cruz on opposition to trade bill, ObamaCare alternative". "Special Report" with Bret Baier, www.foxnews.com. June 24, 2015.
  • WOMEN must be at the forefront of nation-building to bring the South African citizenry together and, therefore, develop a whole new ethos of human co-existence

  • We're not into nation-building. We're into justice.

  • Nation-building is never a 'done deal' confined to history already established.

  • What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.

    Travel   Home   Pieces  
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