In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

I want to initiate a change in society in the long term.

I always had that long-term vision. Even getting going with cinema, knowing it was such a long road to be able to make films, but I always had a long term. Whenever I was starting out, I had that patience.

In the same way we have a long-term plan for building roads, we have to have a long term plan to build transit.

Steward for the long term. It's not always easy, but you do it.

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.