In general, Americans are not very good at nation-building and not very good colonialists. — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
“The idea is to change the nature and value system of the nation as whole” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“It is a tragedy in Africa that we have many prayer meetings, but no thinking meetings.” — ‘Yemi Success, MD Copy Share Image
“Despite the turbulence our nation has experienced, we WILL arrive safely and without incident!” — Fela Durotoye Copy Share Image
“The nations that build machines will own the nations that kneel for miracles” — ‘Yemi Success, MD Copy Share Image
We should be building a nation and it should be called the United States of America. We are spending all our money… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Part of American leadership is making sure that we're doing nation building here at home. That will help us maintain the kind… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“There's a place for talking and criticism. But there's also a place to let our ACTIONS do the talking!” — Fela Durotoye Copy Share Image
Thanks to the heroic sons and daughters of this country, who have paid sacrifices, we have been able to score a number… — Girma Woldegiorgis Copy Share Image
Let the professionals like doctors & engineers teach in schools once a week. Let's make teaching a national movement necessary for Nation building. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
The first and most important component in nation building is LAW. Law is the source of national Cohesion. — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
WOMEN must be at the forefront of nation-building to bring the South African citizenry together and, therefore, develop a whole new ethos… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
We must abandon the failed policy of nation-building and regime change that Hillary Clinton pushed in Iraq, in Libya, in Egypt and… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The message of reconciliation, of nation-building, of granting amnesty, indemnity, has struck a powerful, favorable chord. And people can understand that we're… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“We understand it still that there is no easy road to freedom. We know it well that none of us acting alone… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“Contrary to the academic cliché, nations are far from being easily 'manipulated' into existence from supposedly disparate communities in a process of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
India is more than a sum of its contradictions, any truism about India can be contradicted with another truism. There is no… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“Postcolonial nation-building was an extraordinary project: hundreds of millions of people persuaded to renounce – and often scorn – a world of… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Peasants, who after the liberation of the country became the masters of their lands and their country under the benevolence of Comrade… — Kim Jong-un Copy Share Image
“They killed him because he was too innocent to live. He was young and ignorant and silly and he got involved. He… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“But it was really the then-popular right-wing demagogue Glenn Beck who gave Republicans a taste of what was to come as the… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
When corruption is king, there is no accountability of leadership and no trust in authority. Society devolves to the basic units of… — Nuhu Ribadu Copy Share Image
“If the Trump White House was as unsettling as any in American history, the president’s views of foreign policy and the world… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
If we don't stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, we're going to have a serious problem coming… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance… — Sherrod Brown Copy Share Image
The U.A.E. cannot be considered as any other nation as their rulers have underlined. Indians, especially Keralites, have contributed immensely in their… — Pinarayi Vijayan Copy Share Image
We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building. — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
President Obama and Democrats won a mandate to move us forward with jobs, healthcare reform, equality, and nation building here at home. — Christine Pelosi Copy Share Image
When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation. — Al Franken Copy Share Image
“It is time we accept there’s no Cronkite moment for Afghanistan. Perhaps it's time we value the hearts and minds of our… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
What we need now is a nation of great people who live to positively impact others and build enduring legacies — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you teach a girl, you are not just imparting education to a woman but to a family that will later help… — Smriti Irani Copy Share Image
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… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq wonder… — Lamar Alexander Copy Share Image
A nation is not defined by its borders or the boundaries of its land mass Rather, a nation is defined by adverse… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the challenges over the last decade is America has done experiments in nation building in places like Iraq and Afghanistan… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Many of the ethnic and other parochial tensions that have tended to create insecurity and outright conflict, time and time again, are… — Yemi Osinbajo Copy Share Image
We've been in the nation-building business since World War I, and especially since WWII. The goal is not a Jeffersonian Democracy in… — Oliver North Copy Share Image
