Kristen Welker Quotes

In a world of cell phones and satellite feeds - a world in which the president can sit in the White House situation room and watch a military action unfold on the other side of the world - it is not realistic to expect TV news to be anything but what it has become: a ceaseless flow of words and images that may or may not be accurate.

What happens in Britain, what happens in the world, matters a lot to us in our core business.

I think Canadians are more interested in international events than Americans because it is such a small country, so politics affect it more.

As we realize that more and more things have global impact, I think we're going to get people increasingly wanting to get away from a purely national interest.

The Beijing Olympics and the Shanghai World Expo show just how much effort China is willing to spend to enter the global stage. But while China desires to understand the world, it fails to accept its universal values.

With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers.

The internal affairs of other countries has a big impact on American interests.

India's Finance Ministry's ... feet might be in India, but it's head is in Washington.

Today, no country can ever truly cut itself off from the global media or from external sources of information. Trends that start in one corner of the world are rapidly replicated thousands of miles away.

The bloke who ends up sitting in the White House partially controls what we [the British] get up to.

The Liberal Democratic Party works for Japan and the world.

The situation of the principal powers of Europe are singular and portentous. Connected with some by treaties and with all by commerce, no important event there can be indifferent to us.

Probably the biggest thing about the shaping of our future is that it won’t be shaped in the United States.

We live in the age of the American empire.

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

Empires can only decline when other nations decline and make way for them.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history.

If China can succeed in the next few years, it will transform that country, Asia and the world in ways that will serve our long term interests.

We’re in the Internet age, and so domestic politics is no longer domestic, really, It’s international. I don’t think that has quite hit our politicians.

The Middle East does not follow Las Vegas rules. Whatever happens in the Middle East affects the rest of the world.

The speed, scale and reach of China’s rise are without precedent in modern history. Within just 30 years, China’s economy has gone from smaller than the Netherlands to larger than those of all other countries except the United States.

Power is the true reserve currency in international affairs.

Europe’s slow political decline has been disguised for decades by American power.

It is likely that America will be more important during the next century or two, but after that it may well be the turn of China.

For the first time in history all people on earth have a common present…. Every country has become the moat immediate neighbor of every other country, and every man feels the shock of events which take place at the other end of the globe.