Ehud Barak Quotes

The multinational corporations now developing budgets often bigger than medium-sized countries — these live in a global space which is largely unregulated, not subject to the rule of law, and in which people may act free of constraint.

We have benefited greatly from the globalization of the economy in the last 30 years.

To follow the example of other states would deprive Wisconsin of a large measure of its sovereign prerogative, and establish great corporations as independent powers within the state, a sort of imperia in imperiis (empire within an empire), baffling state order, state economy, state policy.

The political boundaries of nation-states are too narrow and constricted to define the scope and activities of modern business.

For the first time in history, a single worldwide economic system has come into being.

Global capitalism means that people are no longer confined by the decisions of national elites. These could be the local monopolies, the local powers, politicians, and so on. By making local powers compete or by bypassing them altogether, globalization gives people more freedom to decide.

Democracy and capitalism have both been hacked.

Corporations now govern society, perhaps more than governments themselves do; yet ironically, it is their very power, much of which they have gained through economic globalization, that makes them vulnerable.

The transnational corporations and the money markets have declared the era of human-designed regulations over. Now the market must reign. Because few people in the business community are paid to think about phrases such as "Western civilization," they don't seem to realize that they are proposing the arbitrary denial of 2,500 years of human experience.

nation state as a fundamental unit of man's organized life has ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state.

President Eisenhower saw it coming, and it is here. Patriotism no longer exists among many of these corporations. Some companies have more economic clout than entire countries. They can make or break a politician.

During the boom years of the 1990s, globalization emerged as the most significant development in our national life. With NAFTA and the Internet and big-box stores selling cheap goods from China, the line between national and international began to blur.

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

Globalization is a great thing, but it needs a legal framework in which to blossom.

Globalization has produced a new of level of interdependence among us. The economy and multinational supply chains do not abide by political boundaries. A computer ordered in Brazil is designed in California and assembled in several other countries. Economic integration was the first strong evidence of a new era.

More than half the world's largest 100 economies are corporations. They have no loyalties to place or citizens.

Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.

Globalization is the process by which markets integrate worldwide.

Transnational, gigantic industrial companies no longer operate within political systems, but rather above them.

Globalization must be controlled.

I do not dread these corporations as instruments of power to destroy this country, because there are a thousand agencies which can regulate, restrain and control them.

Are we really going to let the world become a global market without any laws except those of the jungle?

The unfettered free market has been the most radically disruptive force in American life in the last generation.

Globalization is very difficult to understand and almost impossible to regulate.

Globalization today is a globalization of markets, not a globalization of democracy.