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Quotes About International

I did live over in the U.K. for a while, so I guess I'm just naturally a Brit at heart.
~ Kelly Rowland
globalization" of chip fabrication hadn't occurred; "Taiwanization
~ Chris Miller
It seemed all Englishmen imagined one had to attend Oxford, dress in black and breathe the air of Britain to understand the workings of business. Business, he could have informed them, varied not a whit anywhere in the world.
~ Christina Dodd
mass indoctrination of uneducated young men with such ideas is in itself a lethal danger to society and to international order.
~ Christopher Hitchens
the new framework of law did not confront or contain one of the signal crimes of the day: the Turkish Ittihad government's destruction of some one million Armenians. Nor did existing international law achieve justice for the Armenians when the killing was over, in part because Britain, France, and the United States saw greater advantage in cooperating with Turkey in a new division of Middle Eastern oil than they did in bringing Ittihad criminals to justice.
~ Christopher Simpson
The fact is that no clear international ban against crimes against humanity existed prior to 1945, due in large part to U.S. opposition.
~ Christopher Simpson
We can spend sixty-eight thousand dollars per TB patient in New York City, but if you start giving watches or radios to patients here, suddenly the international health community jumps on you for creating nonsustainable projects.
~ Tracy Kidder
You see, son, our business men are trading with the Germans all the time, regardless of politics. Standard Oil has a big deal regarding patent rights with I. G. Farben, the German dye trust, and so have the du Ponts. The A.E.G., the electrical trust, is in the same position, and I don't doubt that the Hermann Goring Stahlwerke have many such understandings in America.
~ Upton Sinclair
Educational achievements of US students (or a lack thereof) are scrutinized with every new edition of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA. The latest results (2018) for 15-year-olds show that, in math, the United States ranks just below Russia, Slovakia, and Spain, but far
~ Vaclav Smil
And she keeps in touch with Stacey, who isn't averse to doing foreigners for an old friend either.
~ Val McDermid
It turned out the international language wasn't love—it was fear.
~ Kyle Mills
Interference in the internal affairs of one nation by another is an unpardonable violation of international law and custom.
~ L. Fletcher Prouty
The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations.
~ Lakhdar Brahimi
At Duke University, our infrastructure comes from the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies and the John
~ Cathy N. Davidson
Mark and I were launching an international awareness campaign that would eventually result in thousands of letters from all over the world asking Governor McWherter "what does 'national security' have to do with the documented rape and molestation of a child's mind and body?
~ Cathy O'Brien
We expected that the international community would put a stop to it. I believed that. I was worried about getting through a few days, that's all, while the world—how do you say?—got its act together.
~ Geraldine Brooks
All the women who actually drove were mature professionals who had international drivers' licenses they'd acquired overseas. Many
~ Geraldine Brooks
As far as my relationship with President Putin is concerned, it's fine.
~ Gerhard Schroder
The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected.
~ Gerrit Smith
L'Onu è un baraccone di piccole virtù. Chi lo magnifica come una mirabile entità salvifica è un illuso e probabilmente un ipocrita.
~ Giovanni Sartori
We spend more per pupil than any other country, but among industrialized nations, American students rank near the bottom in science and math. Only 13 percent of high school seniors know what high school seniors should know about American history.
~ Glenn Beck
Abused in this way, law becomes a tool—both domestically and internationally—by which the powerful can coerce and control the powerless, rather than a system for ensuring that all are subjected to common rules. Nowhere
~ Glenn Greenwald
As part of these programs, the NSA exploits the access that certain telecom companies have to international systems, having entered into contracts with foreign telecoms to build, maintain, and upgrade their networks. The US companies then redirect the target country's communications data to NSA repositories.
~ Glenn Greenwald
Another BOUNDLESS INFORMANT document detailed the international data collected in a single thirty-day period from Germany (500 million), Brazil (2.3 billion), and India (13.5 billion). And yet other files showed collection of metadata in cooperation with the governments of France (70 million), Spain (60 million), Italy (47 million), the Netherlands (1.8 million), Norway (33 million), and Denmark (23 million).
~ Glenn Greenwald