Quotes About Globalization

Americans speak few languages, know little about foreign cultures, and remain unconvinced that they need to rectify this.

That raises the most serious threat to the liberal international order—which is not China's expansionism but America's abdication. The architect of this system is rapidly losing interest in its own creation.

The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like Afghanistan cannot be left to break up into anarchy and chaos without consequences for the whole world.

I'm fascinated by Bollywood.

I'm fascinated by how ethnic communities have assimilated into massive capitalist environments.

I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world.

Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We are fast becoming an entirely different people.

How does allowing China to constantly rig trade in its favor advance the core conservative goal of making markets more efficient?

I think it's time British filmmakers stopped allowing themselves to be colonized so ruthlessly by U.S. ideas and stopped looking so slavishly to the U.S. market. It demeans filmmaking when they do that.

God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it, do you understand?

It's very Finnish to think you can't make it outside Finland.

You can't be too far away from your BlackBerry because if there's a development anywhere around the world, it impacts the White House.

You know what makes me want to cry? I think, whoever the next Facebook is, why would you ever start that company here in the United States?

When the whole world is globalized, you're going to be able to set fire to the whole thing with a single match.

The Internet is a whole new world opening up.

Internationalism, illustrated by the Bolshevik and by the men to whom all countries are alike provided they can make money out of them, is to me repulsive.

At 16, I started a web development business and had clients from the Netherlands, Caribbean, and across the country - none of whom knew my age because I could conduct all my business with a phone, scanner, and the Internet.

The biggest losers from international trade are always those whose skills have a cheaper competitor in a different market.

If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.

The very notion of Great Britain's 'greatness' is bound up with empire. Euro-scepticism and Little Englander nationalism could hardly survive if people understood whose sugar flowed through English blood and rotted English teeth.

Mixed martial arts was invented by Brazilians, whose families had been trained by the Japanese. Those Brazilians came to the U.S., where their invention was bought out, gussied up and presented to the world, which found it good.

Globalisation means many things. At one level, it talks of trade, which since the 16th century has exchanged goods and now, increasingly, ideas and information across the globe. But globalisation is also a view of the world - it is an opinion about man and why men are on the world.

For me, it matters that we drive technology as an equalizing force, as an enabler for everyone around the world. Which is why I do want Google to see, push, and invest more in making sure computing is more accessible, connectivity is more accessible.

Connectivity just can't be a privilege for people in the richest countries. We believe that connecting everyone in the world is one of the great challenges of our generation, and that's why we are happy to play whatever small part in that that we can.