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Globalization Quotes
"It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity."
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"Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation."
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"The more I come to know about the outside world's perception of China, the more I feel there are all sorts of misunderstandings, and to a certain extent, people do not get the full picture from the media. A lot of foreigners have few opportunities to visit China, and a lot of Chinese people do not have the chance to go to Europe or to the West."
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"A certain number of Americans are already in Peking and most of us here feel that it would be very useful for the United States and especially for the Left-wing progressive movement in the United States if groups of students such as you mention could make a tour of China."
39
"We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes."
37
"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."
30
"We may freak out globally, but we suffer locally."
29
"It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today."
27
"In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies."
25
"The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations to cheaper locations overseas."
24
"It says something about this new global economy that USA Today now reports every morning on the day's events in Asian markets."
24
"So the American economy needs the world, and the world needs the American economy."
24
"Every day more Americans watch their jobs being shipped overseas."
21
"Most agree, whatever their party political position, that the West can and should open its agricultural markets more fully to the products of the poorer countries of the globe. They are agricultural societies that need our markets more than our charity."
21
"Contagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it's a phenomenon of globalization."
20
"The world is getting so small. Young people are mobile; they want to travel around the world. When you travel around the world, you exchange culture, you want to make friends, you want to exchange things."
19
"Russia should support globalization. The Internet can develop in Russia in a very speedy way."
19
"Trade is a communication of cultures and values."
19
"When you live in the United States, with the roar of the free market, the roar of this huge military power, the roar of being at the heart of empire, it's hard to hear the whispering of the rest of the world. And I think many US citizens want to. I don't think that all of them necessarily are co-conspirators in this concept of empire. And those who are not, need to listen to other stories in the world - other voices, other people."
6
"Globalization means standardization. The very rich and the very poor must want the same things, but only the rich can have them."
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