Robert Zoellick Quotes

#1. Those who advocate euthanasia have capitalized on people's confusion, ambivalence and even fear about the use of modern life-prolonging technologies. Being able to choose the time and manner of one's death, without regard to what is chosen is presented as the ultimate freedom.

Pope John Paul II

#2. The imagination is the spur of delights ... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

Marquis De Sade

#3. Magical since Birth.

Stephanie Lahart

#4. The world is only one poor harvest away from chaos. We are so close to the edge that politically destabilising food prices could come at any time

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#5. Don't just analyze a problem - solve it.

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#6. Hatred has no place in your heart. Empathy does.

Evan Grinde

#7. In London, Washington, and Paris people talk of bonuses or no bonuses. In parts of Africa, South Asia, and Latin America, the struggle is for food or no food.

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#8. The extreme of flexibility is chaos and the extreme of being structured is rigid and staying sane, or indeed using your creativity, is about being aware of these extremes and steering yourself to areas where you work best which usually tend to be more in the middle than at either extreme edge.

Philippa Perry

#9. Japan rose from the ashes of World War II as a 'trading state,' the model for export-led growth. It is not clear that the old export model of growth will be sustainable in a more 'balanced' global economy that does not rely so heavily on the U.S. consumer.

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#10. Since I came to the World Bank in 2007, I have argued that we must 'modernize multilateralism.'

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#11. The Congress has had an uneasy relationship with banks and bankers since Alexander Hamilton. It took the United States until 1913 to set up a central bank. The Federal Reserve earned its hard-won independence over years of effort.

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#12. An empowered public is the foundation for a stronger society, more effective government, and a more successful state.

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#13. I can't change the past, but one person can change the future - anything can happen.

Paul Mooney

#14. All of us make mistakes. The key is to acknowledge them, learn, and move on. The real sin is ignoring mistakes, or worse, seeking to hide them.

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#15. The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take.

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#16. It is clearly the case that programs in Europe and the United States that have increased biofuel production have contributed to the added demand for food.

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#17. I get drawn in when I feel there is something deep and mysterious going on beneath the surface of something.

Steven Pinker

#18. From the grasses in the field to the stars in the sky, each one is doing just that; and there is such profound peace and surpassing beauty in nature because none of these tries forcibly to transgress its limitations.

Rabindranath Tagore

#19. When I consider a problem, it is now instinctive for me to think about the institutions involved, the authorizing environment, possible coalitions, likely opposition, implementation, legal issues, resource dimensions, communications - and how the problem fits into a stream of other issues.

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#20. Climate change policies cannot be the frosting on the cake of development; they must be baked into the recipe of growth and social development.

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#21. There are many roads to prosperity, but one must be taken. Inaction leads nowhere.

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#22. It is much harder for economies to prosper if they cannot sell to, buy from, invest with, and even transit their neighbors. Landlocked countries with failed or failing neighbors can lose access to the world economy.

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#23. It is vital that the World Bank Group continually challenges itself to refresh our development thinking. It is vital that a modernized multilateralism be open to new ideas.

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#24. Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral fibre and destroys trust.

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#25. One of the challenges for sub-Saharan Africa is that markets are of modest size. This makes regional integration important.

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#26. Private sector development and the creation of small businesses spur investment, jobs, opportunity, and hope. It empowers the market to meet local needs, whether for food, basic goods, or services.

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#27. It's a dream come true for Bubba Watson from Bagdad, Florida to have the green jacket on.

Bubba Watson

#28. My true love is history, but I didn't know how I could make a living at it.

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#29. Great upheavals produce shock waves that widen cracks in political, economic, and security orders. Sometimes the old orders break. Yet it can be in the power of leaders and peoples to shape the directions of change.

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#30. When I work with countries struggling to pay for budgets or finance trade deficits, I reflect on how Americans do not spend a moment considering the unique advantages of being able to issue bonds and print money freely.

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#31. Rwanda is a landlocked country, but it hasn't stopped developing. They built a high-end tourism industry around the mountain gorillas.

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#32. In the US and Europe over the last year we've been focused on the prices of gasoline at the pump. While many worry about filling their gas tanks, many others around the world are struggling to fill their stomachs. And it's getting more and more difficult every day.

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