Edward Snowden Quotes

My perspective is cultural and world-based. It's always been a global perspective.

Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.

I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness.

What images do we see from the rest of the world? We see natural disasters, war, terror. We see refugees, and we see horrible diseases. Right? We see beautiful beaches, cute animals, beautiful nature, cultural rites and stuff. And then we're supposed to make the connection in our head and create a worldview out of this. And how is that possible?

It's a small world when you're from South Sudan.

It's important that we have a global perspective and look abroad and learn from our neighbors.

Me myself, I'm not a big fan of the idea of countries.

There are other people, other economies, governments, cultures, religions, and destinies going on at the same time as yours. You have to widen the scope of your lens and start seeing more. Because Americans, it's easy to make us freak out. When the going gets rough, you have to get conservative. That's what's happened to America in the last eight years. I just try to point out that there's more going on than most people pay attention to.

Americans are once again looking outward

'Time' is an internationalist publication catering to internationalist readers who are not only interested in their own backyard.

Our leaders increasingly see fit to lecture the ethnic minorities on the need to integrate, including of course the need to speak English. What about the need, though, for Britain to integrate with the rest of the world?

My writing has been shaped by the three countries - Sri Lanka, the Philippines and England - I have lived in.

I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.

America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.

I get much more information about the rest of the world from people who are not Americans. You get a distance from America that is useful for a journalist; useful for my perspective on the world.

We live in such a sheltered environment in the United States. I've been fortunate enough to have traveled all over the world, and I've seen things you only read about and see on the news.

America is not the center of the universe.

No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

I look and there's our boy from Vietnam and our daughter from Ethiopia, and our girl was born in Namibia, and our son is from Cambodia, and they're brothers and sisters, man. They're brothers and sisters and it's a sight for elation.

I was the most Australian child ever in the world, even though my home was in Africa.

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

The ability to mingle with so many countries and cultures is extremely valuable for men and women.

I am a citizen of the world, and also a citizen of Ukraine.

To be an American is to be part of the world because America, all the people of the world come to America.