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In general, Americans are not very good at nation-building and not very good colonialists. -- Francis Fukuyama
It's not the job of the U.S. military to do nation-building or produce democratic utopias. -- Ted Cruz
Infrastructure sector is all about building assets for the country. It is part of nation building. -- Gautam Adani
The people gave me the responsibility of building the future of this nation. And I did it with honor. -- Hosni Mubarak
When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation. -- Al Franken
President Obama and Democrats won a mandate to move us forward with jobs, healthcare reform, equality, and nation building here at home. -- Christine Pelosi
Whether addressing immediate crises or building long-term foundations of peace, the United Nations will remain committed to solutions that advance the global good. -- Ban Ki-moon
Bombing the Murrah Federal Building was morally and strategically equivalent to the U.S. hitting a government building in Serbia, Iraq, or other nations. -- Timothy McVeigh
Teachers have the hardest and most important jobs in America. They're building our nation. And we should appreciate them, respect them, and pay them well. -- Jim Hunt
I don't know any nation on Earth that succeeded in creating a strong middle class with rising wages based on building a stronger and bigger government. -- Mitt Romney
There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference. -- John Bolton
The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend. -- George W. Bush
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
In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself. -- Ron Paul
The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world. -- Gary Oldman
We were told this war would be over in a matter of weeks, and that the Iraqis would be able to finance it with oil sales. We were promised it was not a mission of nation building. -- Sherrod Brown
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. -- Ron Paul
I envy those Hindus and Buddhists who have in their religion philosophy and ancestor worship which build in the believer a continuity with the past, and that most important ingredient in the building of a nation - memory. -- F. Sionil Jose
What was new was the symbolic force of the targets struck. The attackers did not just physically cause the highest buildings in Manhattan to collapse; they also destroyed an icon in the household imagery of the American nation. -- Jurgen Habermas
This is our history - from the Transcontinental Railroad to the Hoover Dam, to the dredging of our ports and building of our most historic bridges - our American ancestors prioritized growth and investment in our nation's infrastructure. -- Cory Booker
Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles. -- William Ellery Channing

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