Global Concerns Quotes

How can the reality of 600 million Chinese be ignored?

It's obvious that China faces a range of demographic and economic difficulties stemming from its own population growth, and that the global community has a vested interest in avoiding the worst impacts of that growth.

There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.

I think the United States and the secretary of State should be concerned about the poverty in this country - people without health insurance. The United States should stop being the empire and be concerned about other countries. You've got to be more worried about your own people.

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.

Apocalyptic movies tend to thrive when people are concerned about the state of the world.

The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.

We must take care that globalization does not become something people become afraid of.

Many more people in the world are concerned about sports than human rights.

Not a whole lot of us are wrestling somebody for a canned food item in the supermarket or having an ax fight in the jungle clearing. Instead, we sit and think about taxes and the ozone layer.

What I found when I became Secretary of State was a lot of doubts and a lot of concerns and fears from friends, allies, around the world.

Along with selfishness, anger is one of the most serious problems facing the world today

We are the people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit.

Look, we're living in a crazy time right now. There's a lot of craziness going on in the world and in the United States in particular.

All of us who care about the world going forward would like to engage the government more.

I think when people try to use their art for political views, I think they're art becomes smaller, less interesting. And so for me, as an artist, I'm trying to speak about things in a universal way and not be pedantic or small-minded and try to convince other people of my political views. But having said that, every day I live in sort of complete terror because of what I read in the newspaper and what is going on in the world. I'm constantly, as I think many of us are, overwhelmed by the sort of, mass psychosis that's occurring.

The world's all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That's what writers are thinking about because that's what the world is thinking about.

These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often these same people are not concerned with the millions that are killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers.

Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in the general concerns of the world.

Some people complain there are too many people on earth, Some people complain about secret societies, Some people accuse others of not being able to wake up early. Almost all people complain about something.

'Hell in a Handbasket' is not dealing with the political nature of the country. It's dealing with the humanity and the compassion of the world.

Some countries you love. Some countries you hate. Canada is a country you worry about.

I tell jokes, and I have fun, but I tend to worry about everybody and everything throughout the entire world.

Most globalism opposition groups believe “that the foreign trade policy- making process was undemocratic and that it elevated global concerns over domestic ones.” Non-elected bureaucrats working largely behind closed doors were responsible for setting international trade rules that affected agriculture, services, trade-related investment measures, intellectual trade in goods; and over-saw a binding international dispute settlement process with little (if any) input from the domestic citizens and groups who would be affected by these economic rules and political mechanisms.

Every day as Chancellor I see alerts telling me of risks around the world.