We cannot meet 21st Century challenges with a 20th Century…

Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy.

— Charles W. Pickering

If America is to succeed in responding to these 21st Century challenges, our political system cannot continue to bog down in the mire of…

— Chuck Hagel

There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Earlier this week ... scientists announced the completion of a task that once seemed unimaginable; and that is, the deciphering of the entire DNA…

— Edward Kennedy

A stable 21st century society requires 21st century solutions not 20th century economics

— Phil Harding

America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce…

— Barack Obama

The 20th Century was a bloodbath, and for all the frustrations and failures of the project to unify Europe, the last five decades have…

— Barack Obama

India is the Saudi Arabia of human resources for the 21st century. The power that we used to get from oil in 20th century,…

— Rahul Gandhi

The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives - and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS…

— Al Gore

I think our children will be living on floating cities, and they will look back on the 20th Century, when people lived in primitive…

— Joe Quirk

Our culture is hung up on and overemphasises what can be derived from material objects. I think this is something quite new, over the…

— Tino Sehgal

The Internet in the 21st Century is as important to our future as highways were in the 20th Century. Like a highway, the Internet…

— Chuck Schumer

I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries.

— Joschka Fischer

The 20th century has been marked by cynicism, selfishness, greed, and the desire to please, all without changing the status quo. In the 21st…

— Óscar Arias

When you have schools that are operating in the 20th century, and we're trying to prepare our children for the 21st century, even those…

— Donna Edwards