"The attacks on the World Trade Center and the current economic recession, which is particularly powerful in New York City, have put a number of building plans on hold for the time being"

"It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are"

"Powerful indeed is the empire of habit"

"Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity"

"The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace"

"States get to improve transportation infrastructure; that creates economic development, puts people back to work and, most important, enhances safety and improves local communities"

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world"

"It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life"

"Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge"

"Our people can draw on the tremendous strides made in recent years, not only in terms of advancing themselves spiritually and materially, but also in having weathered social and economic turbulence, triggered, in the main, by factors not of their own creation"

"Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities"