Quotes from James Wolfensohn

You can't compete globally unless you have appropriate communication skills.

My observation on most people in national governments is that they have very little interest in and very little knowledge of the multinational institutions.

It's probably conventional wisdom now that you bring openness of markets only after the market has developed to a certain level.

You can't wish away poverty overnight.

As you look at the flow of Muslim fundamentalism, or fundamentalism in various areas and various religions, they all play on the people who have very little.

The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality.

I have travelled in the country enough to know that the concerns of villages in Rajasthan will be very different from the issues in the villages of Tamil Nadu. Anybody who makes a general remark about India probably doesn't know India.

If you have Palestinians who have no hope, who don't have a job, who've used up all their resources, the notion of getting rid of violence is a dream.