Quotes About Globalization

Americans are responsible not only for really starting a lot of things in a lot of countries, but also for giving people the confidence to do things they might never have thought to do.

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.

Workers and their families may starve to death in the New World Order of economic rationality, but diamond necklaces are cheaper in elegant New York shops, thanks to the miracle of the market.

Perhaps the greatest danger of our global community is that the person in LA thinks he knows Cambodia because he's seen The Killing Fields on-screen, and the newcomer from Cambodia thinks he knows LA because he's seen City of Angels on video.

There is as much of a chance that it will implode and drag its trading partners down into the abyss with it as there is that it will embark on overseas military adventures.

Since Marco Polo, he thought, this climate has defeated Western civilization.

We see ourselves as being people who want to take India to the world; we see ourselves as being aggressive, assuming risk.

In Australia, kids play in American accents.

Austria is a very export-oriented country.

The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else's problems.

I think it's fantastic that players can decide to go to China and earn more money.

The major economies are not American anymore. They are Asian and South American.

More than any other issue, economists have kind of been boosters for trade.

I call America our emerging market. They find it very amusing when I said that.

We need more and more engagement with China rather than isolating it more and more.

Trade is a source of strength and an engine of growth for America.

We look at the number of engineers coming out of India; we look at the growth of the economy, and it's clear that India is a place we want to be.

The idea of Asian ascendancy has entered public culture.

What I see as an entrepreneur is how much opportunity there is in China.

There is no 'European people' united by common mores.

I don't want to leave euro or leave the European Union.

It is in our nations' interests to see a strong European Union with a growing economy, competitive on the world market.

Say goodbye to the IMF once and for all as the IMF's conditions enriches the rich and impoverishes the poor.

That's the positive aspect of trade I suppose. The world gets stirred up together. That's about as much as I have to say for it.