Quotes About Globalization

The Kenyans beat up on the American runners in every road race every weekend of the year, but we're way ahead of them in the number and quality of our Elvis impersonators. We get our X-Men and gorillas.

The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.

President Donald Trump's policies are not global but inward-looking.

Few countries have become rich through free-trade, free-market policies, and few ever will.

Policies aimed at reversing globalization will lead only to a decrease in real income as goods become more expensive.

It's not going to be technology. It's not going to be globalization. It's going to be policy decisions and policy settings that will form the future of work.

Policymakers, elected and unelected, need to be ever-mindful that the U.S. economy does not exist in isolation.

At different times my children went to Polish, British, and American schools, and they learned about 'the nation' in all of them.

The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.

I majored in political science, and my concentration was U.S. involvement in Latin America in the 20th century.

It annoys me when I phone a hotel receptionist in my own country, and they don't understand what I am saying because they don't speak English. I think that's wrong. It's nothing to do with being politically correct or incorrect; it's just not right.

Politicians said that with our cheap labour, we could be competitive in the world. Nothing could be further from the truth. We were the most uncompetitive country with that cheap labour.

In hip-hop, as in neoliberalism, economics bullied politics out of the picture.

Participatory complexity may well be the key descriptor of the 21st century - in our economies, in our politics, and in our everyday lives.

Greening the globalised manufacturing and sourcing will be the single biggest help multinationals could make to the tough pollution control in China and other developing countries.

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

The globalization that has rescued so many in poor countries has harmed some people in rich countries, as factories and jobs migrated to where labor is cheaper.

ITC works to help firms in poor countries become more competitive and overcome the barriers that are keeping their goods and services out of international markets.

If China has cheap labour, Africa has cheaper labour. This is why China started buying out poor countries.

By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world. Almost all countries will be what we now call lower-middle income or richer.

Advanced industrialised economies like ourselves cannot afford to go on growing, particularly if we want to give people in poorer countries a chance of being able to at least meet their basic needs.

Land degradation, rising sea levels, famine, and conflict will continue to drive people from their homes and towards cities, with megacities like Mexico City and Lagos becoming increasingly common in some of the poorest parts of the world.

There is a definite Chinese pop sound developing, but I was shocked at how influenced it is by American music.

As a working artist, I became increasingly aware of the patterns we see in the street and in America, becoming globalized in terms of pop culture and global and social outlook.