Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.
Ulrich Beck

But in the past, US companies have been able to increase their profits through downsizing in the US, through colonizing other people's resources, and through the increase of globalization.
David Korten

Contagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it's a phenomenon of globalization.
Lawrence Summers

Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.
John Agyekum Kufuor

For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.
John J. Sweeney

For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, aren't we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?
Fredric Jameson

Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods.
Robert Reich

Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.
Jack Welch

Globalization is a fact of economic life.
Carlos Salinas de Gortari

Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.
Paul Samuelson

Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else.
Jeffrey Sachs

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.
Jimmy Carter

Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it.
Omar Bongo

Greed and globalization aren't just America's fault.
Arlo Guthrie

I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization.
Byron Dorgan

If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West.
Fredric Jameson

If the constitutional treaty is rejected it will be back to square one, just at a time when we want Europe to be a more effective force for good in the world, when we need to buttress ourselves against the pressures and insecurities of globalization.
Peter Mandelson

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.
Jimmy Carter

In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it.
John J. Sweeney

In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization.
David Korten