Globalization Quotes

We have to show the benefits of democracy and globalization to ordinary citizens. If we don't put a human face on the global economy and we don't put a competence factor into local democracy, then both will eventually be rejected by ordinary people in Africa and throughout the world. - Bill Clinton

We have made tremendous progress with our globalization plans and with the overall improvements in the performance of the company since we embarked upon Ford 2000. So, I have advised the board that we should move our succession plans forward rather than wait until the end of next year, which was our original estimate. - Alex Trotman

We have been talking about globalization for a long time. Actually, the word has been incorrect because only half of the world has been part of the globalization process. But in the last ten years, the other half -- China, India, the countries of the former Soviet block -- has joined the capitalist system. And I like to say globalization is going global. - Clyde Prestowitz

We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step. - Kofi Annan

We cannot turn globalization back. Our challenge is to make globalization an instrument of opportunity and inclusion -- not fear and insecurity. With all the forces making the world smaller, it is time to change our way of thinking, time to realize we live together in one world, not two -- this poverty is in our community wherever we live. It is our responsibility. - James Wolfensohn

We believe this improvement [in support for globalization] will be difficult to maintain. - Doug Miller

We are in a struggle against a globalization that has no place for principles, values and standards. - Bill Jordan

We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization. - Peter L. Berger

Under the process of ongoing globalization, advantages are, in the main, created for a minority of countries and development centres as well as powerful transnational companies. - Tran Duc Luong