We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together.
~By Valerie Jarrett ~
Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.
~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
It is amazing to me, as a professional geologist, how many otherwise intelligent people have, as some may say, 'drunk the Al Gore Kool-Aid' concerning global climate change.
~By Earl F. Titcomb, Jr. ~
The stark reality facing us today is that without the labour reforms, workers will get neither the income nor jobs in the face of cut-throat global economic competition.
~By Kim Y. Sam ~
Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges.
~By Anna Lindh ~
Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation.
~By Anna Lindh ~
Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that.
~By Fredric Jameson ~
If I can join hands with FIFA and other continental bodies to promote football globally, then I can do more than that to raise African football to new heights.
~By Roger Milla ~
In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.
~By Ulrich Beck ~
But in the past, US companies have been able to increase their profits through downsizing in the US, through colonizing other people's resources, and through the increase of globalization.
~By David Korten ~
Multi- polarisation has become an inevitable trend in the process of shaping a global political pattern and has been widely welcomed by the international community as it reflects the common interests and aspiration of the overwhelming majority of countries.
~By Li Peng ~
Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable.
~By Lord Robertson ~
So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones.
~By Fredric Jameson ~
I represent the Port of Philadelphia, and I know firsthand the important role that ports play in the national and global economy. I have also seen how simple accidents can have devastating impacts on the port system.
~By Allyson Schwartz ~
What will we do in a globalised world? All human beings are equal, so they have the same right to have the same lifestyle-the same social security, jobs, education.
~By Joschka Fischer ~
As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy.
~By Nursultan Nazarbayev ~
The 20th Century was the century of Aviation and the century of Globalization. The next century will be the century of Space.
~By Wilson Greatbatch ~
The E.U. has moved to combat global terrorism by instituting common European arrest and evidence warrants and creating a joint situation center to pool and analyze intelligence.
~By John Bruton ~
I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.
~By David Attenborough ~
The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.
~By Larry Niven ~
In this age of globalization, instant real time media and television, everyone all over the world realizes that high energy usage equates with a high standard of living and wealth.
~By John Olver ~
There is no good reason for our cattle producers to have such limited market access. Our beef is the best in the world, and we need to be allowed to reach global markets.
~By Conrad Bums ~
Well, I heard of Sunny Ade, and looks as if his music is gonna be big on a global level, because I was in London the other day and some people asked me to review the album.
~By Dennis Brown ~
I do not find the supposed scientific consensus among my colleagues. Curiously, it is a feature of man-made global warming that every fact confirms it: rising temperatures or decreasing temperatures. No matter what the weather, some model of global warming offers a watertight explanation.
~By Javier Cuadros ~
The United Nations remains our most important global actor. These days we are continuously reminded of the enormous responsibility of the Security Council to uphold international peace and stability.
~By Anna Lindh ~
If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.
~By Jimmy Carter ~
Then we can help these failed states turn around and give their people a better life. This, too, is a critical part of this global war on terrorism, and Canada and the United States are together.
~By Paul Cellucci ~
Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the globalization of capital.
~By Angela Davis ~
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
~By Barry Commoner ~
Technology is driving the innovation. Technology is driving the creativity. Technology and the use of that is going to determine our workers' ability to compete in the 21st century global marketplace.
~By Ron Kind ~
If the constitutional treaty is rejected it will be back to square one, just at a time when we want Europe to be a more effective force for good in the world, when we need to buttress ourselves against the pressures and insecurities of globalization.
~By Peter Mandelson ~
Each of us has come to share the same point of view, that a global e-marketplace is absolutely essential if we are to drive new levels of efficiency for the industry.
~By Phil Condit ~
Contagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it's a phenomenon of globalization.
~By Lawrence Summers ~
We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population.
~By Jeremy Rifkin ~
South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village - an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
~By Tom Peters ~
It is truly a privilege to be able to support all women's causes on a global level. It is remarkable that something as simple as television can empower us to create change and awareness in the world.
~By Teri Hatcher ~
Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind - chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth.
~By Kenichi Fukui ~
Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence.
~By Jared Diamond ~
This is a basic requirement the meaning of globalization is that we should admit that the economy of each country is dependent on the economy of all the others.
~By Richard Grasso ~
For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture.
~By William Irwin Thompson ~
Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up.
~By Jose Saramago ~
Henry Ford was right. A prosperous economy requires that workers be able to buy the products that they produce. This is as true in a global economy as a national one.
~By John J. Sweeney ~
People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.
~By Martin Yan ~
It says something about this new global economy that USA Today now reports every morning on the day's events in Asian markets.
~By Larry Summers ~
Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy.
~By John Conyers ~
Contrary to popular accounts, very few scientists in the world - possibly none - have a sufficiently thorough, "big picture" understanding of the climate system to be relied upon for a prediction of the magnitude of global warming. To the public, we all might seem like experts, but the vast majority of us work on only a small portion of the problem.
~By Roy Spencer ~
NAFTA recognizes the reality of today's economy - globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job; it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity.
~By John F. Kerry ~
The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
~By Bill Gates ~
In a case like Iraq the UN has again shown what important role it plays as the guarantor for protecting international peace and stability in the global political structure.
~By Anna Lindh ~
The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.
~By Thomas Friedman ~
The whole global warming thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability.
~By Jerry Falwell ~
As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.
~By Eric Hobsbawm ~
The sky is not burning, and to claim that it is amounts to journalistic malpractice... the press only promotes the global warming alarmists and ignores or minimizes those of us who are skeptical.
~By Mark L. Campbell ~
I think that climatic changes have a natural causes according many geological data... I am very glad to sign the U.S. Senate's report of scientists against the theory of man-made global warming.
~By Uberto Crescenti ~
Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.
~By Dan Lipinski ~
Our mail product, Hotmail, is the market leader globally.
~By Steve Ballmer ~
Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry.
~By Arthur Levitt ~
Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history.
~By Todd Gitlin ~
National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence.
~By Kofi Annan ~
The tragedy of September 11th was so sudden, so enormous, and so horrendous, both in terms of lives lost and global consequences, that this country and the world went into immediate and prolonged shock.
~By Allen Klein ~
Instead of saying that globalization is a fact, that it's inevitable, we've also got to demonstrate that while the growing interdependence of the world economy is indeed a fact, it's not uncontrollable.
~By Peter Mandelson ~
No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.
~By Rupert Murdoch ~
The new Congress needs to move quickly to strengthen the Army and Marines - not to send more troops to Iraq - but to rebuild our capacity to meet national security threats globally.
~By Mark Udall ~
The Asian nation's oil demand is expected to grow this year by 800,000 barrels per day and represents more than one-third of the total growth in global demand, according to the Energy Information Agency.
~By Gary Miller ~
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.
~By Anna Lindh ~
Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total.
~By Jean-Jacques Annaud ~
Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods.
~By Robert Reich ~
I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.
~By Jack Kemp ~
In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children.
~By Carol Bellamy ~
A global democracy works only when countries trust one another.
~By Armstrong Williams ~
And each of these perspectives comes to the same conclusion, which is that our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.
~By David Korten ~
Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.
~By Vaclav Klaus ~
The Pakistani government under Musharraf is a strong and key player in the global war on terrorism, and their contribution has been second to none.
~By Cofer Black ~
Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand.
~By Howard Schultz ~
The true credit for our safety and security goes to our men and women who are serving in places like Iraq and Afghanistan in the global war on terrorism.
~By Asa Hutchinson ~
This is not bad, but the pace of globalisation has surpassed the capacity of the system to adjust to new realities of a more interdependent and integrated world.
~By Anna Lindh ~
We may freak out globally, but we suffer locally.
~By Jonathan Franzen ~
China is not only formidable, it is also aggressively building its own economic infrastructure. Just a few years from now, China will rival the U.S. and the European Union in global market power. It already has surpassed us in population.
~By Jo Ann Emerson ~
We must create a kind of globalization that works for everyone... and not just for a few.
~By Nestor Kirchner ~
A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.
~By Yoshiro Mori ~
The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.
~By Mike Huckabee ~
Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion.
~By Timothy Garton Ash ~
There is a huge shift taking place in the global awareness in the last 5 years with strong views about globalization and the power structures of major corporations.
~By David Korten ~
Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it.
~By Omar Bongo ~
The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control.
~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy.
~By John F. Kerry ~
The globalization of the capital market is actually part of economic globalization. This will create a change in the entire world economy, not just restricted to some fields in some countries.
~By Richard Grasso ~
Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized.
~By Ulrich Beck ~
The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent.
~By Gary Miller ~
In view of China's growing military strength and intentions, the best way to safeguard Asia's permanent peace and prosperity is to have all Asian countries join forces with other democratic countries in the world to form a global community of democracies.
~By Jim Costa ~
Global warming is not a conqueror to kneel before - but a challenge to rise to. A challenge we must rise to.
~By Joe Lieberman ~
It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.
~By Robert D. Kaplan ~
I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world.
~By Gordon Brown ~
The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed.
~By Gijs de Vries ~
I believe global warming and climate change are real threats to our planet.
~By Andrew Cuomo ~
Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today.
~By Jared Diamond ~
When the President was asked about global warming at a public appearance yesterday, he responded by talking about America's addiction to oil. You make the connection.
~By Gwen Ifill ~
Unfortunately, Climate Science has become Political Science. It is tragic that some perhaps well-meaning but politically motivated scientists who should know better have whipped up a global frenzy about a phenomena which is statistically questionable at best.
~By Robert H. Austin ~
When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.
~By Barack Obama ~
The global response to global terrorism must not endanger fundamental human rights and freedoms.
~By Stjepan Mesic ~
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