Warren Christopher Quotes

The world, whether we like it or not, will become more and more borderless.

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

Increasingly national boundaries are unable to contain ideas, money or even people.

In this shrinking world, it is futile to seek safety behind geographical barriers.

Globalization punctures borders.

National boundaries are blurred by advanced communications and global commerce, and by the decisions of States to yield some sovereign prerogatives to larger, common political associations.

I think we should be less dependent on the outdated concept we call countries.

I think we're living in a world where there are no boundaries anymore. There are no borders.

Maybe we are all prospective migrants. The lines of national borders on maps are artificial constructs, as unnatural to us as they are to birds flying overhead. Our first impulse is to ignore them.

We have travelled so far in our technical advancements that we are no longer located in our own countries.

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

Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe.

Sovereignty will fall victim to the flow of people, ideas, greenhouse gases, dollars, drugs, viruses, and e-mails… Sovereign states will increasingly measure their vulnerability not to one another but to forces of globalization beyond their control.

The world has grown frightening small in compass.

There is not going to be a border. There will be a free movement of people just like the free movement of goods.

This is an unfair world. Many of us have struggled hard and even shed blood in order to be independent. When borders are down and the world becomes a single entity, independence can become meaningless.

We will have to accept a certain degree of legal immigration; that's globalisation... In the era of the smartphone, we cannot shut ourselves away... people know full well how we live in Europe.

In the 20th century, we built a lot of walls - we endlessly tried to build walls between us and people we perceived, correctly or incorrect, as our enemies. In the 21st century, because of the advent of networks, the free movement of goods and people across the globe, we need to build security by building bridges instead of building walls.

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

You live in the age of interdependence. Borders don't count for much or stop much, good or bad, anymore.

The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.

In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.

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

Singapore is an international city, and it would be a grave mistake to close our doors.

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