Quotes About Globalization

What the interconnected age in which we live allows us to do is instantly connect with each other.

I think a lot about our globalized world, our global interconnectedness, and it really saddens me when I see people 'othering,' when I see people who are willing to live narrowly.

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.

The global community has become irreversibly interdependent, with the constant movement of people, ideas, goods and resources.

I am interested in communicating with the world by selling to many people.

The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.

I believe that if we think back to the period from F.D.R. through, let us say, Bush I, until the end of the Cold War, we lived through an artificial period in which American interests and European interests essentially dovetailed.

But I think we need the international market.

When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.

The issue for me is American competitiveness, and how do we best create a climate here that allows international capital to come to these shores to create jobs.

In the absence of an engaged, diplomatically energized America, others will set the agenda, shape the rules and dominate international institutions - and probably not in ways that advance our interests or values.

Some of the oddest foods I've encountered are 'American' foods represented internationally.

I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really.

The Internet can bring us much closer to the developed world.

The story of the Internet is this incredibly strong, exciting change.

Name any issue in the world, I can tell you how technology is intertwined with it. I can tell you how technology will make it better. How it can make it worse. It needs to be part of everything that we do, whether you are a government or a company or a citizen.

In Los Angeles, the supermarkets all have kosher sections, health food sections, Mexican and Thai shelves. These packages of foreign hungers mirror the city with their bilingual instructions.

The biggest Russian problem - not all Russian jerks have moved to the US and UK yet.

Apontaram para o ecrã e, depois, para nós. Acenámos com a cabeça. Não encararam aquilo de modo tão estranho como eu pensei. Pareceu-lhes até bastante natural. Dávamos a volta ao mundo, estávamos em casa deles e aparecíamos na televisão. Era tão simples quanto isso.

The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.

It all looks American because America, the country that invented mass capitalism and consumerism, got there first. the impact of mass capitalism is now universal.

But now, we are becoming suspicious of the very things we have long celebrated - free markets, trade, immigration, and technological change. And all this is happening when the tide is going our way. Just as the world is opening up, America is closing down.

When you've seen New York, you've seen almost every city in North America. Everything is uniformly the same.

Un des signes les plus sûrs des pays que touche vraiment l'unité de la civilisation musulmane reste la langue. Cette langue qui fut autrefois le ciment de l'Islam, l'arabe 'littéral', le XXème siècle l'a préservée; elle est la langue écrite commune, celle qu'emploient les journaux, les livres. Les langues nationales ne sont que des langues parlées.