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

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

But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual notions constrained and represented the universe within which the discourse took place.

In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car.

There are children who are working in textile businesses in Asia who would be prostitutes on the streets if they did not have those jobs.

If you look at the history of the American capital market, there's probably no innovation more important than the idea of generally accepted accountancy principles.

I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.

I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to it.

It certainly was difficult to sell NAFTA because it's always difficult to sell open markets.

The availability of private insurance provides tremendous insulation for millions of individuals.

I promise you that there are a lot of people involved in various kinds of retail activities who think they have a crucial role in the economy, and they're right.

Many children are taught to believe in God. I came to believe in the power of systems analysis.

In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization.

Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.

This is a basic requirement the meaning of globalization is that we should admit that the economy of each country is dependent on the economy of all the others.

Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the globalization of capital.

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

In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence.

Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation.

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

The war on terrorism has made national security a legitimate concern, and a rising deficit, changes brought on by globalization and even the price of oil have thrown the nation's economic health into question.

Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.

If the constitutional treaty is rejected it will be back to square one, just at a time when we want Europe to be a more effective force for good in the world, when we need to buttress ourselves against the pressures and insecurities of globalization.

The threat to globalization is not the wasted American dollars but Washington's readiness to mix US commercial interests with its self-appointed role as global protector.

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

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning.

Reliable data on the outsourcing of American jobs is sorely missing from the debate on globalization.

It is people who are the objects of globalization and at the same time its subjects. What also follows logically from this is that globalization is not a law of nature, but rather a process set in train by people.

For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.

Instead of saying that globalization is a fact, that it's inevitable, we've also got to demonstrate that while the growing interdependence of the world economy is indeed a fact, it's not uncontrollable.

NAFTA recognizes the reality of today's economy - globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job; it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity.

We must create a kind of globalization that works for everyone... and not just for a few.

The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.

We must take care that globalization does not become something people become afraid of.

We've got to demonstrate why European unity and integration, our vast single market, our single currency, equip us with the strength to embrace globalization.

The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization.

It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture.

I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization.

The globalization of the capital market is actually part of economic globalization. This will create a change in the entire world economy, not just restricted to some fields in some countries.

Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.

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

There is a huge shift taking place in the global awareness in the last 5 years with strong views about globalization and the power structures of major corporations.

For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, aren't we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?

We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization.

So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones.

Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else.

In this age of globalization, instant real time media and television, everyone all over the world realizes that high energy usage equates with a high standard of living and wealth.