Global Economy Quotes - Page 8

• Cities generate most of the global economy, and most of its energy use, resource demands and climate emissions. How we build cities over the next decades will largely determine whether we can deliver a bright green future.

  Alex Steffen

  Cities, Energy, Climate

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• Anybody interested in solving, rather than profiting from, the problems of food production and distribution will see that in the long run the safest food supply is a local food supply, not a supply that is dependent on a global economy. Nations and regions within nations must be left free and should be encouraged to develop the local food economies that best suit local needs and local conditions.

  Wendell Berry

  Running, Long, Suits

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.266, Counterpoint

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• If we're talking about buying exchanges abroad, we have to have global securities standards, as we have global banking regulations. I'm talking about margins. Now, the United States has certain margin requirements that are not the same in London. Investors and hedge funds that want to borrow more money against securities ? if they can't in the U.S., they go abroad. That could add additional risks to the global economy.

  Muriel Siebert

  Talking, Risk, United States

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• I believe we can do much more to adapt to the structural changes in the global economy, get high-end manufacturing back here, set up clusters of economic activity where you have, among other things, continuous retraining of people well into their middle years so they never become irrelevant to the current job market.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, Believe, Years

  "Bill Clinton: Someone We Can All Agree On". Interview with Charles P. Pierce and Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. January 18, 2012.

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• The role of G-20 is to support the global economy to achieve strong, sustainable and balanced growth.

  Lee Myung-bak

  Strong, Support, Growth

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• But I think the global economy will understand that the United States has the ability to meet its obligations. But it's not going to be able to do it over the long term if we can't control the growth of government.

  Charles Bass

  Thinking, Government, Long

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• We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common good. They exploit, pollute, impoverish, repress, kill, and lie to make money. They throw poor people out of homes, let the uninsured die, wage useless wars for profit, poison and pollute the ecosystem, slash social assistance programs, gut public education, trash the global economy, plunder the U.S. Treasury and crush all popular movements that seek justice for working men and women. They worship money and power.

  Chris Hedges

  Crush, Lying, War

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• Embracing a low carbon economy will be as momentous as the previous industrial revolutions. As the shift from coal to oil did. And the shift from gas light to electric light. It has the potential to give us the competitive edge in the new global economy. The scale of the challenge is extraordinary. We will need to reinvent in the way we live our lives, the way our world works

  Charles Hendry

  Our World, Light, Oil

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• Time and again we’ve seen that reducing poverty comes down to economic opportunity-not just connecting the poor to services like banking, but ensuring they can be producers on fair terms in the global economy.

  Leila Janah

  Opportunity, Poverty, Banking

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• I know that there are those who disagree with the overwhelming scientific evidence on climate change. But here's the thing -- even if you doubt the evidence, providing incentives for energy-efficien cy and clean energy are the right thing to do for our future -- because the nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy. And America must be that nation.

  Barack Obama

  America, Doubt, Energy

  First Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 27 January 2010, Washington, D.C.

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• The Upton Sinclair of today's global economy is Charles Kernaghan, the New York based muckraker most famous for his expose of sweatshops producing the Kathie Lee Gifford line of clothing for Wal-Mart.... The Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights... has been a leader in exposing sweatshops, mounting corporate campaigns, and fighting for the rights of vulnerable workers.

  Charles Derber

  New York, Fighting, Impact

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• So, there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers.

  David Korten

  Loser, Winner, Economy

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• I represent the Port of Philadelphia, and I know firsthand the important role that ports play in the national and global economy. I have also seen how simple accidents can have devastating impacts on the port system.

  Allyson Schwartz

  Simple, Impact, Play

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• The best kept secret in the global economy today is this: When your service is AWESOME you get so stinking rich you have to buy new bags to carry all the money home.

  Tom Peters

  Home, Economy Today, Best Kept Secrets

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• Filipino businessmen must have the ability to compete freely in the global economy.

  Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

  Economy, Filipino, Ability

  "I Will Follow My Father's Footsteps... I Am Prepared". Interview with Nelly Sindayen, www.cnn.com. November 8, 2000.

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• In the emerging global economy, everything is mobile: capital, factories, even entire industries. The only resource that's really rooted in a nation--and the ultimate source of all its wealth--is its people.

  William J. Clinton

  People, Wealth, Economy

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