Quotes About Globalization

IMF is really designed to protect creditors not debtors.

To this day, indigenous societies incorporated into the global economy, from Bolivia to Taiwan, almost invariably frame their own traditions, as Marshall Sahlins puts it, by opposition to the white man's 'living in the way of money'.38

from China's point of view, this is the first stage of a very long process of reducing the United States to something like a traditional Chinese client state.

That did not augur well, for these alienated, complacent workers, whether they knew it or not, were under challenge from purposeful, disciplined workers around the world, and their jobs and their whole way of life were in the balance.

Finance capital increasingly looked abroad for higher rates of return.

Labour day is a great American holiday that people celebrate by going out and buying products made in China

There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore.

American capitalism has helped finance the communist take over of the world. Somebody is going to answer to God for this.

Even though IÂ'm pro-globalization, I have to say thank God for the anti-globalization movement. TheyÂ're putting important issues on the agenda.

Immigration is a good thing. We should make that as easy as possible.

I don't know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people's websites in different languages so you can see how they live in different countries.

Globalizing a bad thing makes it worse. But globalizing a good thing is usually good.

Selling through the internet seems to be a very good idea. There are a million areas that we can go to.

Trade can really be good for American workers and American businesses.

The competitive nation-state system, with all its capacity for good and evil, is spreading in the Third World and is transforming that world.

It's a good thing we have immigrant doctors and immigrant engineers, because if you or I get sick this afternoon, we're going to go to the hospital, and we're going to hope someone serves us.

I don't know how a lot of these nations existed as long as they have till we could get some of our people around and show 'em how to be good and pure like us.

Globalisation makes it clear that social responsibility is required not only of governments, but of companies and individuals. All sources must interact in order to reach the MDGs.

Bilderberger Meeting: The world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government.

Within the next hundred years...nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority... National sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all.

Beginning in 1973 and then acts in '77, '78, 1980, 1994 and then into the 21st century in the international arena, governments have steadily gotten out of the transportation business.

Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.

No government in the Middle East is innocent. Wars make the stock market go up, so no one in America is innocent either, nor anyone anywhere where capitalism reigns.

I think today you can move ahead working with global companies more than with national governments.