“Global competence helps all of us to be better citizens who understand global issues and their implication to the world we want our children to inherit.”— Tererai Trent, asiasociety.org
“With climate, we are finally starting to realize that this is a story about people, not about science, graphs or charts. It’s really a story about ourselves and how we interact with the rest of the world.”— Eric Holthaus, goodgoodgood.co
“No nation on this globe should be more internationally minded than America because it was built by all nations.”— Harry S Truman, amazon.com
“That level of influx of multinational workers in this country has sort of confirmed how lazy as a nation we are—when individuals from across the seas are prepared to come and work twice as hard for less money. If anything, it’s a big kick up the ass for the industry, and it’s going to get back to th…”— Gordon Ramsay, radiotimes.com
“Germany wishes to be a country that lends its contribution in the future to solve the problems of the world together, we think that shutting ourselves off and isolating ourselves will not lead us into a good future. Protectionism is not the proper answer.”— Angela Merkel, cnbc.com
“There is a growing global anti-establishment revolt against the permanent political class at home, and the global elites that influence them, which impacts everyone from Lubbock, Tex., to London, England….We look at London and Texas as two fronts in our current cultural and political war.”— Steve Bannon, nyti.ms
“The Trilateralist Commission is international...(and)...is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States. The Trilateralist Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort to…”— Barry Goldwater, books.google.com
“The second [coming disruption] is telerobotics. There are a couple of well-known ones. One is the surgeon operating at a 100-kilometer distance from the patient. But you can imagine that hotel rooms in London could be cleaned by people driving robots sitting in Kenya or Buenos Aires or wherever, for…”— Eshe Nelson, Richard Baldwin, qz.com
“We shouldn’t try and protect jobs; we should protect workers. It’s really a fool’s errand to struggle with because after a year or two those jobs will still go. Either they will be replaced by robots or they’ll move to Mexico or China.”— Eshe Nelson, Richard Baldwin, qz.com
“The danger is that a rising sense of insecurity will lead to more electoral victories for closed-world types. This is the gravest risk to the free world since communism. Nothing matters more than countering it.”— The Economist, economist.com