Alan Mulally Quotes

I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in.

No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.

We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.

I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.

Neighbor is no longer confined to the vocabulary of the individual. It is a national word. Modern inventions have annihilated distance. Commercial relations have broken down barriers of race and religion, and the family of nations is a recognized fact.

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.

If September 11th has taught us anything, it's certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair.

The world has gotten so interwoven.

We're now married to the world. But we keep acting like we're on a big date.

For weal or for woe, the peoples of mankind are knit together far closer than ever before..

No country can be an island unto itself or world unto itself. Not even the biggest country.

To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.

We are the most powerful nation in the world, but we're not the only nation in the world. We are not the only people in the world. We are an important people, the wealthiest, the most powerful and, to a great extent, generous. But we are part of the world.

We live in a global village. No country can live in isolation of others like Robinson Crusoe.

The whole world is global. With the Internet, it's like we're all living in a small village. We're starting more and more to realize there is no difference, we can work together, we can put aside our differences and work on our similarities and be successful in that way.

Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.

I can watch CNN on television or the Internet to find out what happened in Hong Kong ten minutes ago. After all, it doesn't matter where something is made, we're all part of the same big family now.

Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

Nations are becoming less relevant in a world where everyone and everything is interconnected. The connections that matter most are again becoming more personal.

Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation.

We can't return to the 19th century, draw up our drawbridges and say, we don't have anything to do with each other, Germany will not work with the Netherlands, the UK will not work with France. That's ludicrous. We are condemned to work with each other.

The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.

The world is a place that is so interconnected that what happens in another part of the world will impact us.

We do live, like it or not, in a world that is deeply interdependent. 9-11 proved that even security is something that we cannot achieve by ourselves.