Quotes About Development

So-called 'sustainable development'... is meaningless drivel.

Population needs to be stabilised for sustainable development.

Building a 'Green Gabon' has always been a central pillar of my government, and in 2014, I introduced a new legal framework that puts environmental protection and sustainable development firmly at the heart of our future economic growth.

What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now.

Also, it is interesting that developing countries, with China and India perhaps in the lead, where the future of the global environment will be decided are now on board with the case for sustainable development.

Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course.

My next goal is for Shenzhen to become the model of environmentally-friendly and sustainable development.

The Green Climate Fund is very much a strategic building block in the architecture for financing sustainable development.

Africa's economies are gaining ground and can develop their full potential with the right partner. Siemens wants to support their sustainable development - with solutions and projects in Africa, for Africa.

Brazil's commitment to sustainable development is a deep-rooted one. It permeates our public policies and our actions abroad.

There are no debt payments that can be sustained if the country does not grow.

The only way to generate sustained exponential growth is to make whatever you're making sufficiently good.

Our national challenge is to continue to drive sustained economic growth.

Christianity is sustained by the knowledge that the object of man's life on earth is his development as an eternal being. Therefore, none of his expressions of life can be an end in itself, but must serve a higher purpose than the earthly life and happiness of the individual - or even than that of the race.

Sound public finances are not the enemy of sustained growth - they are its precondition.

Our most important priority is sustained economic growth, and I think we can absolutely get to sustained 3% to 4% GDP, and that is absolutely critical for the country.

Inequality in the developed world fell for most of the 20th century; we can make it fall for most of the 21st century, too. But it won't happen without sustained pressure on politicians from electorates.

Part of growing up is realizing the frustrating, heartbreaking truth that intense and sustained long-term effort is needed to effect change.

Physical infrastructure remains important (particularly in developing nations), but concurrently investing in the development of a knowledge-based economy is essential to sustaining healthy economic growth and creating well-paying jobs in a highly competitive, ideas-driven global economy.

What we are doing in fact is recovering and progressing and sustaining the recovery of our democracy.

The U.S. and China need to take steps - mostly individually, sometimes together - that will have the mutually beneficial effect of supporting and sustaining economic growth.

Long-term sustaining growth is a minimum expectation for us.

I think I learned most from editing, both editing myself and having someone else edit me. It's not always easy to have someone criticize your work, your baby. But if you can swallow your ego, you can really learn from the editing.

Climate change has the potential to swallow up all other issues of development.