Martin Jacques Quotes
The 21st century will be quite unlike the preceding two centuries, in which power was located in Europe and the U.S., and the rest of the world consisted of mere supplicants and bit players.

Quotes to Explore
-
We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.
-
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
-
'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'
-
I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
-
Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.
-
If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
-
The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
-
I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
-
I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
-
An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
-
Sometimes you surf well and still don't win. It happens to everyone. You learn that one big score doesn't mean much if you don't have a backup. I guess every rookie learns that as time goes by. I took some big lessons from my losses.
-
'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
-
As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.
-
It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
-
My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
-
War is the continuation of politics by other means.
-
I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
-
My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how I want to express myself, is entirely - in conjunction, of course, with my family, particularly my mom - founded on teachers.
-
If you think a certain thought long enough and hard enough, it becomes a fixed belief and you will find yourself behaving on the outside in a manner consistent with it.
-
But I believe that engagement is a more powerful force than isolation, and the changes we are making can help improve the lives of the Cuban people.
-
It is disconcerting that no one associated with the Guild has yet been able to provide a detailed accounting or basis for these fees, despite the fact that they come directly from dues and fees paid by Guild members, who expect the Guild's leadership and management to be dedicated to furthering the members' health and welfare.
-
We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from - and with - each other.
-
The American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European power.
-
The 21st century will be quite unlike the preceding two centuries, in which power was located in Europe and the U.S., and the rest of the world consisted of mere supplicants and bit players.