World Quotes

The biggest novelty of 2013 will be new leadership in China. Very little is known about the views of the new leaders - who will rule the country for ten years. But we do know they're the first generation of Chinese leaders who have spent the majority of their lives in a China 'opening up' to the rest of the world.

~ David Miliband

The notion of 'world leadership' is a curiously archaic one. The very phrase is redolent of Kipling ballads and James Bondian adventures. What makes a country a world leader? Is it population, in which case India is on course to top the charts, overtaking China as the world's most populous country by 2034?

~ Shashi Tharoor

There is no international problem that can be addressed or solved without the engagement and leadership of the United States and everybody in the world knows that, its just fact of life. So sometimes I think we could conduct ourselves with a little more humility.

~ Robert M. Gates

Basketball Without Borders is a leadership camp that takes basketball to different places around the world, to Africa, Europe, America and Asia. It's a camp that brings players from different parts of the continent to one city that's been assigned as the host city. We've been going to a different city every year.

~ Dikembe Mutombo

The war and terrorism in the Middle East, the crisis of leadership in many of the oil-supply countries in the developing world, the crisis of global warming - all these are very clearly tied to energy.

~ Julia Louis-Dreyfus

The message of the free world to any potential Palestinian leadership should be a simple one: Embrace democratic reform and we will embrace you.

~ Natan Sharansky

Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership and the sacrifices of our military.

~ Bob Riley

I believe that we as the leader of the Free World must provide important leadership on the ethical parameters, the ethical constraints that this research requires.

~ Ron Kind

I'm not up on the Internet, but I hear that is a democratic possibility. People can connect with each other. I think people are ready for something, but there is no leadership to offer it to them. People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are part of a world.'

~ Studs Terkel

President Roosevelt's leadership put the world on notice that the United States of America - with the freest, most dynamic economy the world had ever seen - was open for business.

~ John Hoeven

Moreover, as the leadership of the House confirmed last year, the Administration remains opposed to a congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide due to Turkish objections. This approach sends absolutely the wrong signal to Turkey and to the rest of the world.

~ Patrick J. Kennedy

Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.

~ W. Averell Harriman

And the whole world, the whole world that believes in freedom, whether you're talking about personal freedom, economic freedom, religious freedom, they look to the United States for leadership; and you're part of that leadership.

~ Don Nickles

One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I'd like to see that change by walking the walk.

~ Jennifer Doudna

You take the healthiest diet in the world, if you gave those people vitamins, they would be twice as healthy. So vitamins are valuable.

~ Robert Atkins

The big curse of America, to me, is skinless, boneless chicken breasts. They're banal and relatively flavorless. The rest of the world's trying to get some fat to eat, and we're trying to ban it from our diet.

~ Jim Harrison

Diet cola is my absolute favorite drink in the world; I used to drink four cans a day. But to help me cut down, I've turned it into a treat. Now, instead of having dessert, I'll have a can of diet soda. Putting a limit on how often I can drink it has helped me appreciate it more.

~ Kaley Cuoco

If you eat the standard Western diet that most people eat in the modern world, it's quite likely you will develop heart disease.

~ Joel Fuhrman

Today, the world is so awash in sugar - it is such a staple of the modern diet, associated with all that is cheap and unhealthy - that it's hard to believe things were once exactly the opposite. The West Indies were colonized in a world where sugar was seen as a scarce, luxurious, and profoundly health-giving substance.

~ Tom Reiss

I've probably tried every fad diet in the world.

~ Jenna Ushkowitz

A number of countries around the world, and indeed the E.U. as a whole, have chosen not to allow the import from the U.S. of beef from cows fed a diet that includes the hormone ractopamine, because of the fairly grave health concerns.

~ Zac Goldsmith

You know as far as diet goes, for a while I was really obsessed with counting fat grams along with the rest of the world.

~ Jean Smart

Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better.

~ Nicholas Stern

Mine is the least fat diet in the world.

~ Pierre Dukan

It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet.

~ Jerry Brown

Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.

~ Muhammad Yunus

We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different.

~ Jeffrey Sachs

Advances in technology - hugely beneficial though they are - render us vulnerable in new ways. For instance, our interconnected world depends on elaborate networks: electric power grids, air traffic control, international finance, just-in-time delivery, and so forth.

~ Martin Rees

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

~ E. F. Schumacher

Imperceptibly, the developed world's manufacturing base was gradually eroding and being replaced by securitized finance that destroyed itself and nearly its economies in 2008.

~ Bill Gross

In the business world, we can point to instances when a lack of integrity has bankrupted entire companies - in sectors as different as finance, telecommunications, manufacturing, and energy.

~ Rex Tillerson

My adversary is the world of finance.

~ Francois Hollande

My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance.

~ Francois Hollande

Once my ears were open to hearing mentions of 'Shark Tank', I was surprised by how many people in our world, even in our industry, tech and finance, loved the show.

~ Chris Sacca

I've lived to see key parts of my research absorbed in textbooks and in central banks around the world. And some finance ministries, too.

~ Edmund Phelps

If we can increase the share of Islamic finance for the world, countries can benefit - and certainly, Malaysia can benefit from that.

~ Najib Razak

If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall Street appealed exclusively to large corporations, governments, and to extremely wealthy individuals.

~ Ron Chernow

George Soros is one of the few characters from the world of finance who deserves to be called larger-than-life.

~ Gary Weiss

For those of us in the financial world, Black Friday has a strong negative connotation, referring to a stock market catastrophe.

~ Mark Skousen

Argentina has decided to take its place in the global landscape. We need important companies of the world to finance and construct roads, ports, waterways, energy, trains. We're a huge country that only depends on trucks today. It's impossible.

~ Mauricio Macri