Wayne Rogers Quotes

We live in a global village. No country can live in isolation of others like Robinson Crusoe.

Neighbor is no longer confined to the vocabulary of the individual. It is a national word. Modern inventions have annihilated distance. Commercial relations have broken down barriers of race and religion, and the family of nations is a recognized fact.

The world has gotten so interwoven.

Nowhere on this planet today is there an impregnable fortress, a continent or island so distant that it can ignore all the outer world.

I love how small the world is.

We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.

Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent.

You want to be wanted, and you want people to rely on you.

What we have seen in financial markets should bring home to us all that the central organising principle of this 21st century is interdependence. For the century just past, interdependence may have been one option among many. For the century that is to come, there is no longer an alternative.

Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.

My parents trust me.

We are the most powerful nation in the world, but we're not the only nation in the world. We are not the only people in the world. We are an important people, the wealthiest, the most powerful and, to a great extent, generous. But we are part of the world.

The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.

I should start by saying that traveling in the States is a bit like traveling in Asia. You need it, it helps to have an introduction - that there is a certain network.

I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.

You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own.

I can watch CNN on television or the Internet to find out what happened in Hong Kong ten minutes ago. After all, it doesn't matter where something is made, we're all part of the same big family now.

A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far.

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.

Nations are becoming less relevant in a world where everyone and everything is interconnected. The connections that matter most are again becoming more personal.

Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

No one is an island. All these entities that drive economic development are interconnected in one sense or another.

If September 11th has taught us anything, it's certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair.

I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in.