International Outlook Quotes

I am 60, and I am as much an internationalist as when I was younger, when I was a Marxist-Leninist. Internationalism is one of the rare pieces of that heritage to which I remain loyal. That is Barack Obama's strength. A politician has finally understood that politics is not only about the closing of a mine in Ohio-it is also about the will to reach out, to embrace the world of today's young Americans. That way, young Americans may eventually reconcile with politics.

Americans are not used to being bombed in their beds, but if you come from anywhere outside America, it's not highly unusual.

It's true that what you find in New York is something other than America. Only small towns and small countries are self-satisfied; a real capital goes beyond its borders.

The best American is one who considers themselves as a citizen of the world.

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

I have a European frame of mind and Europe is my home.

Asked where he came from, he said, "I am a citizen of the world."

Foreign students add cultural value to their British peers, who need an international outlook.

I have implicit faith in Sun Yat-sen, not because I am his blind follower, but because he really arouses the deepest respect in everybody. I do not know of another person in China who has such a broad and international outlook, whose ideas are so constructive, and who has such deep faith and confidence in his own mission.

You know the AME Church has a history of empowering black people and having an international outlook. So it was the women of the church who began to give Sarah Breedlove an image of herself as something other than an illiterate washerwoman, and she wanted to make her life better, and her daughter's life better.

My mission is to try to get a lot more global view.

We're from Rockford, Illinois, but we've always thought international.

I consider myself to be an international woman.

Traveling the world I've learned that progressives, regardless of their locations, think in a global space.

I'm really interested in how non-American countries process race.

Britain is characterised not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness. We have always been a country that reaches out. That turns its face to the world.

I'm not a Little Englander. Historically, British people have always been travellers. I look in the world as one place. You have to think in a global sense. Cinema is a global endeavour. My roots are in England but my endeavours are worldwide.

I wish everyone in this country could magically leave the country for six months and view the United States from the outside for six months, and I think you'd see a new perspective to the people of this country.