“The fact is: It's true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.”
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“Countries where women have access to professional life are also those where the birth rate is higher.”
“I would like to be interpreted as a liberal libertarian, like leave everybody alone and let them do their own thing.”
“When it comes to our precious poor children of all colors, maybe disproportionally in percentage black and white and red, but all colors, yellow as well as white, we need to push toward integrated schools.”
“I represent central Florida, which depends on tourists for its economic survival. We need people to be able to get to the State and enjoy it.”
“I don't believe in pessimism.”
“Abundance is not a situation- it is an attitude.”
“The power of capitalism to mediate the gap between rich and poor is pretty incredible. Indeed, I think, year by year, the gap gets less.”
“50 years from now we won't need as much human labour to do what manual workers do, so we should be able to take that extra productivity and put it to better use.”
“When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.”
“This is not about trade, no one is a stronger supporter of capitalism and trade than I am. This is about sovereignty and whether a country has the right to set its own public health policies.”
“It's OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don't want them to catch up because we're slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.”
“The only definition by which Americas best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.”
“I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time.”
“Anyway, the US, as in most issues, is the best, has the best capability to lead, and really needs to lead. It doesn't [mean] that other countries won't pick different tacks and emphasize different things. In aggregate, they're almost half of the energy R&D. Europe, China, Japan - it's very important that they come along and contribute to these things.”
“So we do software for watches, for phones, for TV sets, for cars. And some of these take a long time to catch on.”
“Customers want high quality at low prices and they want it now.”
“The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.”
“In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That's quite clear.”
“There is no doubt PC prices will be coming down.”