(842 quotes found)
“Our work has only begun. In our time we have an historic opportunity to shape a global balance of power that favors freedom and that will therefore deepen and extend the peace. And I use the word power broadly, because even more important than military and indeed economic power is the power of ideas, the power of compassion, and the power of hope.”
Condoleezza Rice
“The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other”
Dan Quayle
“If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.”
Jimmy Carter
“Globalization is not something we can hold off or turn off . . . it is the economic equivalent of a force of nature -- like wind or water.”
Bill Clinton
“The great, unreported story in globalization is about power, not ideology. It's about how finance and business regularly, continuously insert their own self-interested deals and exceptions into rules and agreements that are then announced to the public as "free trade."”
William Greider
“Yes! Finally captured Martha Stewart. You know, with all the massive and almost completely unpunished fraud perpetrated on the American public by such companies as Enron, Global Crossing, Tyco and Adelphia, we finally got the ringleader. Maybe now we can lower the nation's terror alert to periwinkle.”
Jon Stewart
“That's just about girls. It's weird that whatever else is on your mind, whether it's the downfall of global economics or terrible environmental troubles, the thing that always gets you most is when you fancy someone”
Chris Martin
“We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step.”
Kofi Annan
“We are in a struggle against a globalization that has no place for principles, values and standards.”
Bill Jordan
“This is a very exciting time in the world of information. It's not just that the personal computer has come along as a great tool. The whole pace of business is moving faster. Globalization is forcing companies to do things in new ways.”
Bill Gates
