Regional Impact Quotes

What's weird is the Hot Boys and the whole New Orleans Cash Money thing had a really big impact on the Bay when that was popping off. I don't all the way understand it. I mean, I know that they were big everywhere and had a lot of commercial success in the mid to late '90s, but they were really, really felt in the Bay Area.

Anytime the president visits Nebraska its good for Nebraska.

The oil dinosaurs want to win so badly in my home state because what happens here matters everywhere. The nation often follows where California goes.

If Bangladesh succumbs to the rule of one family, it would be a major step backward for the region.

Although one of the key justifications for the Vietnam war was to prevent the spread of communism, the U.S. defeat was to produce nothing of the kind: apart from the fact that Cambodia and Laos became embroiled, the effects were essentially confined to Vietnam.

The regime of Bashar al-Assad will inevitably go down. And its collapse will be loud not only in Syria but across the Arab world.

Everybody wants to see Ukraine - one of the largest countries in Europe - stable with a stable economic situation, because instability in Ukraine can bring instability in the whole region.

Having companies like PotashCorp based in Saskatoon or Cameco based in Saskatoon that have worldwide presence but have the head office jobs, the head office managers and head office employees in your local economy are important from a job creation and wealth creation point of view.

[the war in Iraq] "could have terrifically good effects troughout the Middle East

I believe the democratic transformation in Iraq will lead to change in Middle East.

The dramatic rise of Turkey in the councils of world power was one of the main geopolitical developments of 2010.

Egypt is the most populous Arab nation, the seat of Sunni Islamic doctrine, and has tremendous political, religious and social influence on the rest of the region. For better or worse, it will lead the rest of the Middle East by example. So goes Egypt, so goes the region.

In the U.S.A. or Europe there is no realistic way to estimate the type, magnitude, or probability of the risk, nor any way to narrow down the potentially affected regions.

Unfortunately, what is happening now in our central regions is evidence of this global climate change, because we have never in our history faced such weather conditions.

If we took foreign trade out of Kansas City, we'd be in total depression in 48 hours.

The South was influential in my life. It helped form who I am. I went to New York out of drama school, and I lived in California.

We live in a nation where, when New Jersey figures out how to do something and does it well, and shows progress, it affects other states.

Here in the Great Lakes region, a fourth year in a row of declining water levels has caused millions of dollars in losses for shipping companies, marinas and other businesses and prompted further restrictions on future water withdrawals for expanding suburbs. "A lot of people just can't believe that we may be running out of water, living this close to the Great Lakes," said Sarah Nerenberg, a water engineer with the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission, which conducted the study on shortages.

You cannot achieve success in South Africa, if all around South Africa there is failure.

But then again in the East Coast, I think, Tupac, inspired everybody on the East Coast, everybody down south, everybody in the West Coast you know what sayin'.

EU didn't advance our [Eastern Europe] democracy by a single millimeter.

The BJP would create a big impact in Tamil Nadu.

What happens in the Philippines, Japan, and Korea has a greater impact on us than most events in Massachusetts.

We can remove Saddam because that could start a chain reaction in the Arab world that would be very healthy.

The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation.