Global Quotes

#1. A core part of the global market is what might be called the 'Nike Economy' - footloose companies that play countries against one another while seeking subcontractors with the lowest wages and cheapest conditions.

John J. Sweeney

#2. It is in all our interests that the arteries of global trade are kept free, open and running.

Philip Hammond

#3. Global market forces will sort out those companies that do not have sound corporate governance.

Mervyn King

#4. Human survival requires that nation-states give up the institution of war and replace it with a cooperatively-functioning global peace system - for the well-being and security of all people everywhere.

Douglas P. Fry

#5. So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

Pema Chodron

#6. 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.

Gijs De Vries

#7. Art history is a global version of that old children's game Chinese whispers.

Grayson Perry

#8. Sooner or later we will reach a point where communitarian socialism turns global because capitalism is not even the solution to capitalism itself.

Evo Morales

#9. The broadest possible exercise of imagination is the thing most conducive to human health, individual and global

Marilynne Robinson

#10. Even more fundamental than housing to the global financial economy is the idea that the U.S. government is a safe asset.

Ezra Klein

#11. Moving towards mastery will naturally bring you a more global outlook, but it is always wise to expedite the process by training yourself early on to continually enlarge your perspective.

Robert Greene

#12. The U.N. is one of many competitors in a marketplace of global problem solving.

John Bolton

#13. I thought of myself as a global citizen.

Eduardo Saverin

#14. FIFA should show the world that it is truly a global organisation.

Chung Mong-joon

#15. In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all.

Strobe Talbott

#16. New discoveries and production of resources like shale oil and gas are dramatically altering our energy supply outlook and the entire global geopolitical landscape. And the pace of change - particularly in the past few years - continues to accelerate.

Fred Upton

#17. Don't stop learning. A time will come when your dreams will go global and you will turn and laugh at how local you've been. Start local anyway!

Israelmore Ayivor

#18. Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional.

Carlos Ghosn

#19. U.S. companies rely on the European market for more than half of their global foreign profits.

John Bruton

#20. The planet Earth, though not threatened with destruction by man-made global warming, is by no means indestructible. There are many unpredictable events within our solar system, and still more outside it, that could make Earth uninhabitable by humans.

Paul Johnson

#21. The Internet can give young people a fantastic platform to become financially independent and have global businesses without leaving Russia.

Dasha Zhukova

#22. How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?

Warren Bennis

#23. We must recognise that in an integrated world, trade cannot be divorced from other concerns. We need to promote free trade and serious global efforts with respect to common problems even as we support every nation's right to chart its own course.

Lawrence Summers

#24. The global realignment is accelerating the migration of growth and wealth dynamics from the industrial world to the larger emerging economies.

Mohamed El-Erian

#25. Israel is no longer a people that dwells alone, and has to join the global journey toward peace, reconciliation and international cooperation.

Yitzhak Rabin

#26. A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread.

David Crystal

#27. For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument Kyoto Protocol of global governance," ... "By acting together, by building this unprecedented instrument, the first component of an authentic global governance, we are working for dialogue and peace.

Jacques Chirac

#28. It's a global fashion thing; because of the Internet it has gotten really small. It's cluttered, but it's gotten small.

Paul Weller

#29. Russia has to have a technology company of global meaning sooner or later. We should take the depth of technical culture we have here and make it available worldwide.

Arkady Volozh

#30. We should be treating, I think, the whole issue of climate change and global warming with a far greater degree of priority than I think is happening now.

Prince Charles

#31. We want the world's largest economies, including the United States, to be part of a global arrangement. An approach in which only some are committed to acting cannot be environmentally effective.

Paula Dobriansky

#32. Global climate change is real. The legislative branch of our government is our last line of defense against pollution which is why I am so grateful to have the NRDC making our voice heard.

Kyra Sedgwick

#33. The return on investment in global health is tremendous, and the biggest bang for the buck comes from vaccines. Vaccines are among the most successful and cost-effective health investments in history.

Seth Berkley

#34. The Quest for Prosperity is an important book. Written with verve and clarity, it reflects a deep understanding of global economic issues, and proposes practical solutions that anyone concerned with the plight of the world's poor would be wise to read.

Robert Fogel

#35. Our health-care morass is like the problems of global warming and the national debt - the kind of vast policy failure that is far easier to get into than to get out of. Americans say that they want leaders who will take on these problems.

Atul Gawande

#36. We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.

Vint Cerf

#37. There is only one standard - a global standard. Be consistent, operate at 100% every single time you're given an opportunity.

Komla Dumor

#38. I have always regarded global development as a struggle between the forces of good and evil. Not to be simplified as a struggle between Jesus and Satan, since I do not consider that the process is restricted to our own sphere of culture.

Alva Myrdal

#39. The role of G-20 is to support the global economy to achieve strong, sustainable and balanced growth.

Lee Myung-bak

#40. Global competition is about winners and losers.

David Korten

#41. The United States is a nation located in the global economy, and we get enormous, enormous benefits from dealing with foreigners.

Arthur Laffer

#42. When the Earth was last four degrees warmer, there was no ice at either pole. Global warming of this magnitude would eventually leave the whole planet without ice for the first time in nearly 40 million years.

Mark Lynas

#43. Jazz has a strong following in certain circles and there are annual jazz festivals in Puerto Plata and at Casa de Teatro in the capital. Grammy-winning Dominican jazz pianist Michael Camilo has had success on a global level. The classical music and ballet

Ginnie Bedggood

#44. 'Bond' was like Christmas: can't wait for it to come around. Being in the films brought me to a global audience, and I have had the opportunity to meet incredible people.

Colin Salmon

#45. While the wider global environment is worrying, we are seeing some positive results in our economic affairs.

Michael D. Higgins

#46. Ours is a world which feels so unsettled and dangerous in large ways, whether it's terrorism or global financial meltdown or climate change - huge things that affect us deeply, and yet things about which we can do, individually, very little.

Sarah Waters

#47. [On Vice-President Henry A. Wallace:] Much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still globaloney.

Clare Boothe Luce

#48. Global warming pollution, indeed all pollution, is now described by economists as an "externality." This absurd label means, in essence: we don't to keep track of this stuff so let's pretend it doesn't exist.

Al Gore

#49. We're building a unique global platform ... In the last 18 months we found that sellers and partners are interested in complementing their online and offline businesses with Amazon's platform

Jeff Bezos

#50. I believe that global common interests are a good foundation for finding solutions together.

Vladimir Putin

#51. We have international standards regulating everything from t-shirts to toys to tomatoes. There are international regulations for furniture. That means there are common standards for the global trade in armchairs but not the global trade in arms.

Ban Ki-moon

#52. We all want to be honest and draw lessons from the past, the WHO is the only international organization that has universal political legitimacy on global health issues. This is why it's so important to render its structures more efficient.

Angela Merkel

#53. Very strong declarations were made by those countries who are most responsible for global warming ... the United States and China, which undertook commitments towards changing the situation.

Francois Hollande

#54. The establishment of free trade agreements can be a critical and progressive step towards greater economic integration, and continues to become more valuable in an increasingly global world.

Dan Kildee

#55. Intercultural understanding is a key dimension of the Australian Curriculum. The deployment of technology opens up opportunities for global partnerships and collaboration to grow, increasing opportunities for greater understanding between cultures.

Susan Mann

#56. Global warming doesn't care what's in your bank account.
-Sinead Starling

Gordon Korman

#57. Taking measures to ensure stability could assure the long-term economic growth and welfare at a global level

Miguel Reynolds Brandao

#58. The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability.

Julia Gillard

#59. To prepare adequately for the challenge of global warming, we must acknowledge both the good and the bad that it will bring. If our starting point is to prove that Armageddon is on its way, we will not consider all of the evidence, and will not identify the smartest policy choices.

Bjorn Lomborg

#60. In an age of global standardization, regional voices also remind both writer and reader that no life is lived generically. If the purpose of literature is truly, as the ancients insisted, to instruct and delight, then what better to understand and enjoy than the here and the now ?

Dana Gioia

#61. Our films have the ability to tell global audiences who we are, and this is something the government should feel compelled to protect. My film, 'Bend it Like Beckham,' for example, would not have been made without the backing and support of the U.K. Film Council.

Gurinder Chadha

#62. Certain jobs [films] are for the business really, because they get an audience, they get a global audience. Certain jobs are as an artist. If I can keep moving forward and strike some form of balance between them two, then I'm going to feel content.

Jack O'Connell

#63. According to Time magazine, global warming is 33% worse than we thought. You know what that means? Al Gore is one-third more annoying than we thought.

Jay Leno

#64. Any environmental biologist or statistician will tell you that humankind's best chance of long-term survival occurs with a global population of around four billion.

Dan Brown

#65. Olympics is global competition in which eighty, ninety, hundred, hundred and ten countries participate.

George Pataki

#66. According to the London-based Anti-Slavery International (ASI), the world's oldest human rights organization, there are at least 27 million people in some form of slavery around the world today. And remarkably, the U.S. contributes enormously to this sad state of the global society.

Linda Smith

#67. Innovation, I believe, is the only way that America will regain the initiative in a global dynamic economy.

John Sculley

#68. Al Qaeda's vision of global jihad doesn't resonate in the rugged highlands and windswept deserts of southern Afghanistan. Instead, the major concern throughout much of the country is intensely local: personal safety.

Anand Gopal

#69. The huge turnout for Live 8 here and around the world proves that thanks to the leadership from people like Tony Blair and Gordon Brown the world is beginning to demand more action on global health and poverty.

Bill Gates

#70. Global is a unifying bond for people. Once they get outside their own heads and their own communities and see themselves in a broader framework, it really changes their sense of what they can get done. It all adds up for us.

Kathy Calvin

#71. The serious problems facing the world today will never be solved until women are able to use their full potential on behalf of themselves, their families, and their global and local communities, as the World Bank and others have discovered.

Jenny Shipley

#72. As governor I have seen the tremendous changes over the last few years; the amount of land that we have lost, the trees that we have lost, the homes that we have lost, lives that have been lost, and it is due to a large extent to global warming.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#73. If global warming is such a bad thing, then why is it taking out all of mankind's competitors? It just seems to me that the less species are out there, killing all our Caribou, the better.

Zach Braff

#74. Not every programme dealing with issues of global significance has to be fronted by last week's winner of Have I Got News For You-but I suppose you might be wrong.

Jonathan Dimbleby

#75. On this global stage, Superman is someone that we can all look up to and he's almost kind of ultimately American.

Scott Snyder

#76. The global policy shift toward neo-liberalism that took place during the 1980s and 1990s was supposed, according to its proponents, to bring a convergence of living standards of richer and poorer nations. This never actually happened.

Noreena Hertz

#77. Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#78. Science has been quite embattled. It's the most important thing there is. An arts graduate is not going to fix global warming. They may do other valuable things, but they are not going to fix the planet or cure cancer or get rid of malaria.

Bill Bryson

#79. Now we stand at our own crossroads, looking out upon two futures: one with rising temperatures, rising oceans, and rising violence on a hot and strip-mined planet and another with expanding organic harvests, growing solar arrays, and deepening global partnerships on a green and thriving Earth.

Van Jones

#80. These are tough and unusual times and I don't see the negative global economic situation abating anytime soon.

James McNerney

#81. I'm appalled the word feminism has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture.

Annie Lennox

#82. I believe that there is a whole set of issues in the world - environment, proliferation, energy, cyberspace - that can only be dealt with on a global basis. The traditional patterns of national rivalry and national competition are not suitable for those cases.

Henry A. Kissinger

#83. Without freedom, creativity cannot flourish. The right to freedom is crucial to progress in any society; and the context is having a sense of global responsibility.

Dalai Lama

#84. But in general, as countries get wealthier, there's going to be more savings, which means you're going to have intermediation. So part of it is just the huge growth in wealth, and part of it was globalization - these companies, these clients getting much bigger and much more global.

Jamie Dimon

#85. Too often, governments are quick to use excessive force and even pervert the course of justice to keep oil and gas flowing, forests logged, wild rivers dammed and minerals extracted. As the Global Witness study reveals, citizens are often killed, too - especially if they're poor and indigenous.

David Suzuki

#86. Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with great restraint, we will antagonize the world.

Lee H. Hamilton

#87. Is real, it is serious, it is growing, and it constitutes one of the greatest threats to our national security and, indeed, to global security.

John O. Brennan

#88. Resource extraction impacts a global environment that is increasingly at severe risk.

Noam Chomsky

#89. Profit maximization is the murderous strategy of global corporation hierarchies

Jean Ziegler

#90. A global democracy works only when countries trust one another.

Armstrong Williams

#91. For thousands of years it has been understood that, just as civilizations have to come to an end, there can even be times of global extinctions. But always there are people who know how to gather the essence of life and hold it safely, protect it and nurture it until the next seeding.

Peter Kingsley

#92. Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?

Thomas Sowell

#93. Corruption, money laundering, and tax evasion are global problems, not just challenges for developing countries.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

#94. If anyone has seen success and failure on a global stage, it's my friend Steve Forbes.

Peter Diamandis

#95. Have concern about where you're from, where you live, and where you may travel. The village is global.

T.F. Hodge

#96. The one thing that's changed for 'That Metal Show' is that it's now global; it's now on in places outside of America.

Eddie Trunk

#97. Why are we so obsessed with celebrity culture? We have front-page news about divorces instead of front-page news about global warming, about women being abused, about children being abused. We're going on a downward spiral.

Heather Mills

#98. Fossil fuels, including oil, are running out and supplies are getting harder to find. If we do nothing, prices will continue to rise and our reliance on oil will come to an abrupt and tumultuous end, causing global economic and social turmoil.

Lucy Powell

#99. We know that for every 1 person who get access to the Internet, one new job gets created, and one person gets lifted out of poverty. So in theory, going and connecting everyone on the Internet is a large national and even global priority.

Mark Zuckerberg

#100. If we were to focus our attention on one particular problem and neglect the others, we would fail to see the true scope of our current global issues. The changes made in that form of thinking are limited and self-contained.

Ian Somerhalder