David Ignatius Quotes

Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.

In my mind globalization means returning the industrial revolution back to square one.

Globalization is the central reality of our time.

The first thing we need to understand when we think about globalization is that it has benefited an enormous number of people who are not part of the global elite.

The forces of global integration are a great tide, inexorably wearing away the established order of things.

You can't stop globalization any more than you can stop computers.

Americans today are blaming globalization for change itself and the pace of change, much of which has little to do with globalization.

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.

Globalization doesn't have to be a bad thing as long as government provides us all with the tools to cope in a changing world.

Social media has changed the world forever. We're not going to go backwards. People are not going to accept being poor, accept being excluded anymore.

The benefits and consequences of globalization have a great deal to do with whether we're intelligent and thoughtful about how we approach globalization, or whether we're blindly accepting... or blindly resistant.

People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money.

I think growing up in South Africa, and then moving to Canada, I'm just genuinely interested in the difference between the First World and the Third World, immigration, and how the new, globalized world is beginning to operate. All of those things run through my mind a lot.

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.

Globalization has benefited middle-income less than either richer or poorer countries.

Globalization

Luddism is no longer with us, but today we seem to be overtaken by its opposite, the inevitability of technological change coupled with the blind belief in capitalism's ability to provide us with all we need.

The concentration of income inside the United States is striking, but it pales in comparison with the concentration worldwide to which the economic system headed by the United States has given rise.

The development of science has produced an industrial revolution which has brought different peoples in such close contact with one another through colonization and commerce that no matter how some nations may still look down upon others, no country can harbor the illusion that its career is decided wholly within itself.

We have at last awakened to the realization that foreign and domestic trade are not in separate water-tight compartments--that they flow through the same pipes and seek a common level. We cannot live by ourselves, shut off from the balance of the world, without working harm to our economic system that would require many years for repair.

In an interdependent world …, the idea that American can have of the blessings of globalization but none of the burdens doesn’t add up.

Wild globalization has helped some people much, but has hurt most.

I think globalization is a great thing. And now a lot of people complain about globalization; a lot of people don't like, you know, the globalize of the concept, the idea of the results. I think the globalization is a great idea and to create a lot of jobs.

This globalization is lifting up hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. The Left needs to see that.

Globalization can be a great opportunity.