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Quotes About Globalization

You know one little way in which baseball changes us? We don't even think twice about Japanese names anymore. You know what I mean?
~ Bill James
Occasionally, I've been asked to do American roles, and once or twice I have, but I don't understand Americans. I don't have any real feeling for American culture.
~ Jim Broadbent
China is absolutely one of the biggest players in the world and if Britain wants to be connected to the world it has to be connected to China.
~ George Osborne
In a world where globalisation wants to turn everybody into the same thing, I think that anything that allows you to go to another place or be in another world has got to be celebrated.
~ Gwenno
I always wanted to create a project that would allow me to think about cross cultural relationships and hybridization but did not want to use my personal story or standard tropes of multiculturalism.
~ Saya Woolfalk
I think as English people, we don't want to be reminded that at one point we ruled three-quarters of the globe, and now we're a very small country that doesn't own three-quarters of the globe.
~ Jamie Bell
Empires want [cities] only to trade with the empire, which doesn't help them at all. It's just a way of exploiting them.
~ Jane Jacobs
A lot of people dont understand how cargo coming into our ports matters, not just to Southern California but to every single congressional district. I want to educate on that issue.
~ Janice Hahn
As all Americans head forward into the new reality globalization has created, they want leaders who will level with them and help level the playing field.
~ John B. Larson
Everybody wants to be American, it seems; I travel enough to know.
~ Jon Anderson
We are marching against the law of the jungle that the United States and its acolytes old and new want to impose on the world.
~ Jose Saramago
China is investing in factories in Eastern Europe, not because their labor costs are lower, but because they want to be closer to their markets.
~ Michael Bloomberg
I am proud to be a Turk, and to write in Turkish about Turkey - and to have been translated into about 40 languages. But I don't want to politicize things by dramatizing them.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Big Business wants cheap labor costs.
~ Rick Santorum
The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.
~ Thomas Friedman
During my lifetime, America has been constantly waging war against much of humanity: impoverished people mostly, in stricken places.
~ John Pilger
No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's
~ Thomas L. Friedman
No policy has proved more successful in making friends for the United States, during the cold war and since, than educating students from abroad at our colleges and universities.
~ Robert M. Gates
I think the Chinese will say the hell with you and pull their money out of the United States. That's the end of our wars.
~ Gore Vidal
The high stage of world-industrial development in capitalistic production finds expression in the extraordinary technical development and destructiveness of the instruments of war.
~ Rosa Luxemburg
The Cold War is over. The world has become much more complicated.
~ Vladimir Putin
I am for a close global association in trade and financial matters, rather than the opposite possibility of excessive nationalism, as manifested in the two world wars.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.
~ Havelock Ellis
Clearly the students had been learning about racism—far away, and in another country
~ Susan Neiman