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Globalization Quotes


"It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity."


"Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation."


"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."


"We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes."


"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."


"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."


"We may freak out globally, but we suffer locally."


"It says something about this new global economy that USA Today now reports every morning on the day's events in Asian markets."


"It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today."


"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."


"Contagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it's a phenomenon of globalization."


"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."


"So the American economy needs the world, and the world needs the American economy."


"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."


"Russia should support globalization. The Internet can develop in Russia in a very speedy way."


"Every day more Americans watch their jobs being shipped overseas."


"Trade is a communication of cultures and values."


"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."
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