Quotes About Global

I write diverse books because the world we live in is diverse, and I want my books to reflect that truth.

I think it's a good thing for everybody that we see the entire world reflected back at us on our screens.

Our aid spend is a reflection of us as a big-hearted, open-minded and far-sighted nation.

The iPhone is made on a global scale, and it blends computers, the Internet, communications, and artificial intelligence in one blockbuster, game-changing innovation. It reflects so many of the things that our contemporary world is good at - indeed, great at.

There are big issues, like the reform of the Security Council. These kinds of questions are something the President of the General Assembly must keep his eye on.

I do believe that all of the world needs reform. The reform must take place everywhere.

About half my work in education is U.S. political reform around school districts and charter schools, and creating more room for entrepreneurial organizations to develop. And about half on technology, which I look at as a global platform.

A lack of reform - particularly in international tax - has hurt our ability to compete in a global economy by keeping U.S. corporate cash overseas and reducing domestic investment, slowing economic growth.

Whether we are in or out of the E.U., we must deliver reform at home in order to compete abroad in the 21st century.

We should involve the whole world in the handling of this refugee crisis.

It has never been illegal to be a refugee.

There should be a global commitment to try and get rid of UNHCR refugee camps and long-term people in those camps.

Before I became a SEAL, I'd done humanitarian work around the world - with refugee families in Bosnia, with unaccompanied children in Rwanda, with kids who lost limbs to land mines in Cambodia.

We're in a new reality, living in a time of climate change. We already have climate refugees around the globe and now have to talk about adaptation and mitigation.

If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.

Our country has been the leading provider of humanitarian aid for refugees.

Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.

We don't need to bring 100,000 refugees in from the Middle East.

I regard myself as an international man, a citizen of the earth.

In the old days we were the challenger brand competing against the big banks, but today I go round the world and I sit with governors of central banks and finance ministers and, in some cases, prime ministers. They all know Travelex. We are regarded as the establishment - the world's largest retailer of foreign currency.

I had multiple circles of friends around the world. Some circles were really wild and I was affectionately known by them as 'the nerdy one.' And, with other friends, I was regarded as the wild one.

Finland actually made Internet access a human right a while back. That was a clever thing of Finland. But that's like the only positive thing I have seen in any country anywhere in the world regarding the Internet.

I envision a world where everyone can lead healthy and productive lives, regardless of who they are or where they live.

I think technology can change every country regardless of political party.