Reconstruction Quotes

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Being in this business for as long as I`ve been in it, it`s sort of like living in a town or a city before the war and then after the war and then during the reconstruction and then during the time that it sprawls out to the malls.

- Carly Simon

Oh see, first off you gotta realize - everything for me is a reconstruction or deconstruction. I would actually say deconstruction. Mission: Impossible would be the exception. That would be a reconstruction- deconstruction.

- Danny Elfman

India has been contributing very much to the reconstruction of Afghanistan; we are strongly engaged there.

- Joschka Fischer

There are some moments you never get over. That was one of them. JP, referring to the crash and burning of his WWII bomber plane that resulted in major facial reconstruction and severe head injuries.

- Jack Palance

(As a result, Nagin himself has become part of the debate over how best to rebuild the devastated Big Easy. Critics suggest the qualities that endeared him to Orleanians before Katrina, among them his political inexperience and his shoot-from-the-hip approach, make him the wrong man for the massive, labyrinthine job ahead. But his supporters, especially members of the business community, say the reconstruction project offers Nagin, 49, a chance to dramatically change not only New Orleans` skyline but also the more larcenous and dysfunctional side of its free wheeling culture.) I`m still high on him, ... He`s the right leader to bring the city back?especially when you consider that the corrupt old guard could try to exploit this disaster and come back into power.

- Mark Lewis

For the person in the field GRT`s service is a simple to use but powerful reporting tool that assists with gathering time-sensitive information from relief and reconstruction operations around the world, ... The GRT technology is currently being used globally by humanitarian organizations and the Marines in other operations.

- Michael Gray

(The PDAs were loaded with customized Rapid Data Management Software (RDMS) developed by GRT and then transported directly to the Marine units onboard United States Navy ships deploying into hurricane stricken areas of the Gulf Coast. The customized software includes reporting capabilities on shelter, water/sanitation, medical, logistics and transportation requirements among others and can be quickly updated via satellite, cellular communications or the Internet. GRT is providing 24/7 secure Web-based data management support to the Marines and relief workers from its VNOC, which is manned by a team of communications, software, and computer specialists.) For the person in the field GRT`s service is a simple to use but powerful reporting tool that assists with gathering time-sensitive information from relief and reconstruction operations around the world, ... The GRT technology is currently being used globally by humanitarian organizations and the Marines in other operations.

- Michael Gray

I have no doubt that, provided we can keep the training and the security sector reform going, and providing some of the reconstruction will continue at the present rate, we`ll reach a point where we can see an Iraq that is self-governing, providing its own security and has a democracy of the form that the Iraqis want,

- Michael Walker

Sometimes (the elbow) feels powerful and sometimes it doesn`t. Usually the days when it doesn`t is the days I pitch well. Hopefully it`ll feel worse, I guess. It feels as good as can be expected for the time I`m coming back from a major reconstruction.

- Scott Williamson

Even another tropical storm could set the reconstruction back for months.

- Matthew Simmons

But the alarmingly slow pace of Iraq reconstruction, and the misuse of U.S. and Iraqi funds, have serious repercussions for our own national security.

- Tom Lantos

Our neighbor Canada has 2,200 troops serving in Afghanistan. Canada has also assumed responsibility for the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar, which was originally established by our own military.

- Tom Lantos

Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took.

- Stephen Harper

Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.

- Alan Feldman

I know that my Republican colleagues are as ashamed as I am that the United States is forced to borrow over $1 trillion from foreign nations to pay for our national priorities like reconstruction of the gulf coast and the war in Iraq.

- Alan Stray

We won the war, but we are losing the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq. It is past time for a new approach, one that relies on accountability, responsibility, and phasing down the scope of our military commitment.

- Alba Quinones

A people`s literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.

- Albert Dunlap

Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acceleration and genetic reconstruction in widespread, populous species.

- Alejandro Queral

We need better coordination on the international side, just as they need better and more effective efforts on the Somali side. We have too many reconstruction and development assistance plans.

- Alfredo Viegas

The third point is that for some time the UN has been talking about helping Afghanistan in the reconstruction of the country but there has never been any real commitment by the international community to provide resources for that.

- Allison Barber

There is a firm, clear commitment to provide resources and ideas to enable us to organize the Afghans towards starting the process of rehabilitation and reconstruction.

- Allison Barber

It is the intention that, in due course, the company will carry out a capital reconstruction to enable the restoration of dividend payments at the appropriate time.

- Andy Ku

In reality, dredging would probably be more important than that. That`s probably more practical than reconstruction, but that`s not a good thing to say.

- Angie Wellman

For our size, I think we are safe. There has been a lot of highway reconstruction. Danbury would have never been the same if I-84 hadn`t been widened.

- Anne Lukas

Sometimes (the elbow) feels powerful and sometimes it doesn`t. Usually the days when it doesn`t is the days I pitch well. Hopefully it`ll feel worse, I guess. It feels as good as can be expected for the time I`m coming back from a major reconstruction.

- Annie Taylor