Quotes About Globalization

The world is fortunate - for the time being, at least - that it has an American president in Obama who is prepared to take a conciliatory and concessive attitude towards America's decline and that it has a Chinese leadership which has been extremely cautious about expressing an opinion, let alone flexing its muscles.

We need students to understand how the world has changed and be prepared to make contributions in a new way.

One of the criteria for a global company is that it should have a manufacturing presence in multiple countries and should not only be an exporter.

President Bush has said that the economy is growing, that there are jobs out there. But you know, it's a long commute to China to get those jobs.

Presidents must be willing to fight for American jobs and should set a central goal of federal policy of creating an environment that rewards companies for investing here and discourages them from moving abroad.

I think shows being sent out this way - pressing a button and 10 episodes can go out to the U.S.A., and the U.K. and Germany, it's very cool.

You know, every country needs another country to mock, and Australians seem to be pretty good at impersonating American people. Maybe it's because all the movies and music and TV you see there is from America, so we just have the knack for it.

This century is going to be a very dangerous century.

I'm a father with two daughters, and I don't want them to feel that they have to go and work in China when they are older.

India has in fact raced ahead, in ways that are more dazzling and more confusing than America is.

We need to be free to do deals with the rest of the world.

We need to understand as a nation that you can't forever expect somebody out there, whether it's China or somebody in England, to say, 'I will always take America's debt no matter what.'

When the manufacturing decline began in earnest in 2001, the main culprits were the offshoring of jobs to China, with which we have no trade deal, and automation.

Many foreign students take their California degrees back to their home countries. They become entrepreneurs that develop products that they sell back to us.

I don't go to Delhi malls, because malls are the same everywhere.

The simple fact of being a human being is you migrate. Many of us move from one place to the other. But even those who don't move, and you stay in the same city, if you were born in Manhattan 70 years ago, you're born in Des Moines 70 years ago, you've lived in the same place for 70 years, the city you live in today is unrecognizable.

Capitalism is destroying the world.

Whole communities have been devastated as good-paying jobs continue to leave the U.S.

Our end goal is for TaskRabbit to be for everybody and everywhere and every device.

I feel as much British as I do American. There's not much difference between our countries.

My whole life, I've been getting used to adapting. There are small differences, but culturally, the States and the U.K. are very close.

We believe in a better world, an unglobalised world, enriched by the cultural differences and customs of all the people.

I don't think you lose culture because you act different cultures.

When you have people from different parts of the world coming together, it just makes it so much richer.