Globalization Quotes - Page 5

• Contrary to the received wisdom, global markets are not unregulated. They are regulated to produce inequality.

  Kevin Watkins

  Produce, Inequality, Contrary

  "Winners and losers and the great divide" by Kevin Watkins, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2000.

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• It's still popular to ... insist that globalization is a rising tide that lifts all boats, but the hard reality is that the last thirty years have seen America's once proud and prosperous working class thrown to the wolves, so corporations could keep boosting their quarterly profits and the middle class could maintain a filmy illusion of wealth through access to cheap consumer goods.

  John Michael Greer

  Reality, Years, Class

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

  John Kufuor

  Mainstream, Higher Education, Higher

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• Trade reform has also been linked to increased income disparity as skilled workers have captured more benefits from globalization than their unskilled counterparts.

  Stephen F. Lynch

  Reform, Income, Benefits

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• Globalization is the result of powerful governments, especially that of the United States, pushing trade deals and other accords down the throats of the world’s people to make it easier for corporations and the wealthy to dominate the economies of nations around the world without having obligations to the peoples of those nations.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Government, People

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order”, p.10, Seven Stories Press

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• In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it.

  John J. Sweeney

  Hymns, Support, Leader

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• 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.

  Peter Mandelson

  Squares, Europe, Insecurity

  "Interview: EU trade chief Peter Mandelson". Interview with Gareth Harding, www.upi.com. April 25, 2005.

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• For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, arent we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?

  Fredric Jameson

  Military, Economic Globalization, Might

  Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books

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• 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.

  Roger Mahony

  War, Oil, Rising

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• Why don't those damn oil companies fly their own flags on their personal property-maybe a flag with a gas pump on it.

  Smedley Butler

  Oil, Flags, Pumps

  Smedley D. Butler (2003). “War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier”, Feral House

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• 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.

  Jared Diamond

  Thinking, Islands, Space

  Jared Diamond (2011). “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition”, p.129, Penguin

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• 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.

  David Korten

  Strong, Views, Years

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

  David Korten

  Differences, Economic Globalization, Internationalism

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• 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.

  Fredric Jameson

  Thinking, Aggravation, Want

  Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books

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• 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.

  John J. Sweeney

  Children, Opportunity, Class

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

  Anatoly Chubais

  Russia, Support, Way

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

  Lawrence Summers

  Contagion, Phenomenon

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• 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.

  William Greider

  Self, Dollars, Roles

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• Globalization - and I think we share this conviction - is that globalization needs to be shaped politically, it needs to be given a human face, but we cannot allow to fall back into plagued globalization times.

  Angela Merkel

  Fall, Thinking, Needs

  Source: time.com

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• 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

  Moving, Government, Support

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.

  Kofi Annan

  Skills, Organization, Community

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In this time of globalization, with all its advantages, the poor are the most vulnerable to having their traditions, relationships and knowledge and skills ignored and denigrated, and experiencing development with a great sense of trauma, loss and social disconnectedness.

  James Wolfensohn

  Loss, Skills, Development

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• It would never occur to me to map my research against events in my life, and the recent history of globalization seems to be part of someone else's life. Still, maybe I have been trying to fill in a history or address that amnesia for the recent past. There's so much that's opaque about the ways in which extra layers of global governance have developed since Pax Americana and really accelerated in these last thirty, forty years.

  Keller Easterling

  Past, Trying, Amnesia

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Globalization is a fact of economic life

  Carlos Salinas de Gortari

  Facts, Economic

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• Globalization has become an ideology with no constraints. And now, nations are forcing themselves back into the debate. Nations with borders we control, with people that we listen to, with real economies, not Wall Street economies, but rather factories and farmers. And this goes against this unregulated globalization, wild, savage globalization.

  Marine Le Pen

  Wall, Real, People

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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