Douglas MacArthur Quotes

Many people in the world believe that in the 21st century, the Asia-Pacific - Asia in particular - will play a more important role in global economy and politics and that Asia will become an important engine for the world economy.

Even the alleged benefits of war, so far as more than alleged, spring from the fact that conflict of peoples at least enforces intercourse between them and thus accidentally enables them to learn from one another, and thereby to expand their horizons. Travel, economic and commercial tendencies, have at present gone far to break down external barriers; to bring peoples and classes into closer and more perceptible connection with one another.

The idea of explaining why free trade is good, why immigration is good, why the world is so connected, that we need to think in terms of humanity and being generous to each other, you know, that's proving to be a challenge.

No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat.

The world map looks smaller than ever before.

I should start by saying that traveling in the States is a bit like traveling in Asia. You need it, it helps to have an introduction - that there is a certain network.

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

On some level, now, we are joining the larger world and realizing that we are connected with people in these very scary ways, sometimes. What happened recently in Spain affects us here and brings questions up. It is too bad that people have to be shaken up in that way.

We recognize the new order in the world, with the closer contacts which progress has wrought.

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

We're not isolated from the world. The world knocks on our door.

It's been a great privilege to see how interwoven nations are and how incredibly complex these relationships are. It's so elaborate.

The 'One Belt, One Road' initiative has been dismissed by some as not working. But America could be becoming weaker by ignoring what is going on right under our noses.

When the whole world is globalized, you're going to be able to set fire to the whole thing with a single match.

The world is such a small place.

How we live our lives in the Western world has impacts on the rest of the world.

The Great Convergence: Asia, the West and the Logic of One World.

Globalisation has changed the world, and football is the perfect instrument to set an example and to help adapt to this new world.

There is still a big gap between South America and Europe and Asia, and if we had more players playing in Europe, the gap would be smaller.

I think of the world as geographical regions, and it excites me to think about the opportunity that Europe can have if we consider it to be the 500-million-people region that it is.

Creating a structure for mutual prosperity requires lowering regional and transnational barriers to facilitate the flow of goods and promote people-to-people interactions.

We are living in a global world - but most schools and books still tell us only parochial histories of one particular country or culture. The truth is that there are no longer any independent countries in the world.

The world is becoming smaller every day.

In 1992, India launched the India-Asian partnership and by 2005 we were members of the East Asia Summit.

I always like things that shrink the world for me, that make me feel a strange connection, not just to the person that I'm listening to but to the world.