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It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree. -- Bobby Scott
Well, I think the global economy is in the position for continuing good growth with inflation well in check. -- John W. Snow
Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy. -- Sam Harris
Clearly, the Global Economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States. -- John Sweeney
Our view is that economic isolationism is the wrong way to go. Vibrant, successful growing economies that advance the interests of their citizens engage the global economy. And, we're committed to engaging the global economy. -- John W. Snow
A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy. -- Rod Blagojevich
Cinema has become a global economy, totally international. -- Lasse Hallstrom
Filipino businessmen must have the ability to compete freely in the global economy. -- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics. -- David Korten
We got into a recession because the global economy went into the recession and we're a big exporting nation. -- Stephen Harper
China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth. -- Bill Gates
In this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination. -- Bob Taft
The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population. -- Bill Bryson
Yet in this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination. -- Bob Taft
To ensure continuing prosperity in the global economy, nothing is more important than the development and application of knowledge and skills. -- Martin Rees
I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremost we're part of the global economy. -- Stephen Harper
It says something about this new global economy that USA Today now reports every morning on the day's events in Asian markets. -- Lawrence Summers
My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game. -- Julia Gillard
We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender. -- Barack Obama
If men can learn to be less defensive, more open to others, and more accepting of accountability, they will adapt well to the new global economy. -- John Gerzema
In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity - it is a prerequisite. -- Barack Obama
Henry Ford was right. A prosperous economy requires that workers be able to buy the products that they produce. This is as true in a global economy as a national one. -- John Sweeney
The agricultural revolution transformed the earth and changed the fate of humanity. It produced an entirely new mode of subsistence, which remains the foundation of the global economy to this day. -- Robyn Davidson
An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment. -- Wendell Berry
For me, when you put a MakerBot in a school, you add a manufacturing education to the environment where I think we can really empower the next generation to compete in the global economy. -- Bre Pettis
What's going on in this country? Unions stand against those trends. We've got to somehow insulate the robust American economy from this global economy that seems to want to devour our standard of living. -- James P. Hoffa
Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy. -- John Conyers
Scientists and supercomputers have amplified our ability to look ahead. For decades, experts have warned us that human numbers, technology, hyper-consumption and a global economy are altering the chemical, geological, and biological properties of the biosphere. -- David Suzuki
I don't want the United States to be in a global economy where our economic future is bound to that of Zimbabwe. We can't necessarily trust the decisions that are being made financially in other countries. -- Michele Bachmann
In the 'Nike Economy,' there are no standards, no borders and no rules. Clearly, the global economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States. -- John Sweeney
To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam. -- Jennifer Granholm
By preventing pneumonia and other diseases, we are giving men, women and children the chance to live healthy productive lives and participate in the global economy. In doing so, we are not only enhancing their futures - we are enhancing our own. -- Mandy Moore
With lower start-up costs and a vastly expanded market for online services, the result is a global economy that for the first time will be fully digitally wired-the dream of every cyber-visionary of the early 1990s, finally delivered, a full generation later. -- Marc Andreessen
All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, and virtually all issues ended up being subordinated to that. Now, the question is, what is the most a socialist can achieve in a global economy? -- Ken Livingstone
Studies have identified a significant 'skills gap' between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today's global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world. -- Stephen Covey
Today, local economies are being destroyed by the pluralistic, displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place. -- Wendell Berry
We are moving toward a global economy. One way of approaching that is to pull the covers over your head. Another is to say: It may be more complicated - but that's the world I am going to live in, I might as well be good at it. -- Philip M. Condit
The fact that, in the United States, there are people serving ten-year prison terms for growing marijuana plants in their backyards while Wall Street racketeers, who have defrauded millions of people and destroyed the global economy, walk free is a kind of bizarre hypocrisy that boggles my mind. -- Mark Haskell Smith
We have to remember we're in a global economy. The purpose of fiscal stimulus is not simply to sustain activity in our national economies, but to help the global economy as well, and that's why it's so critical that measures in those packages avoid anything that smacks of protectionism. -- Stephen Harper
You know, I think of the global economy as an inverted triangle, resting on the shoulders of the American consumer. And if the American consumer cannot have enough disposable income in order to maintain a standard of living that creates more opportunities generation after generation, that's bad for everybody. -- Hillary Clinton
The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy, no state alone has the ability to compete against China. -- Jennifer Granholm
We know that to compete for the jobs of the 21st century and thrive in a global economy, we need a growing, skilled and educated workforce, particularly in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math. Americans with bachelor's degrees have half the unemployment rate of those with a high school degree. -- Mark Pocan
My solutions are to include Africa in the global economy, and not African charity, AIDS research, but African infrastructure development. And I think that Africa can import and needs everything the whole world can manufacture. And they have got enough money to pay for it. It's just that the money is in the ground. -- Andrew Young
There are more humans than all of the rabbits on earth. There are more of us than all the wildebeests, than all the rats, than all the mice. We are the most numerous mammal on the planet. But because we're not like rabbits or rats or mice, we have technology, we have a consumptive appetite, we have a global economy. -- David Suzuki
If you followed this economic crisis and you do not think that the world is getting flatter, you are not paying attention. We saw the entire global economy at one time acting totally in sync. The real truth is the world is even flatter than I thought. Our mortgage crisis is killing Deutsche Bank. You still don't think the world is flat? -- Thomas Friedman
A global economy requires a global currency. -- Paul Volcker
The global economy is in pretty good shape. -- John W. Snow
We can fight the global economy with a strong local economy. -- Wendell Berry
Our global economy is much more fragile than many of us realize. -- Robert Kiyosaki
The annual cost of cybercrime to the global economy is more than $4 billion -- Mark Rutte
The global economy is a doomsday machine that must be stopped and reprogrammed. -- Kalle Lasn
The only preparation for prospering in the global economy is investing in ourselves. -- William J. Clinton
Russia exists in the context of open global economy and is a part of it -- Kenneth Rogoff
So, there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers. -- David Korten
The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment. -- Derrick Jensen
In a global economy where our economies and supply chains are deeply integrated, it's not even possible. -- Barack Obama
As I constantly remind Canadians, there isnt really a Canadian economy anymore. It is a global economy. -- Stephen Harper
The role of G-20 is to support the global economy to achieve strong, sustainable and balanced growth. -- Lee Myung-bak
The nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy. -- Barack Obama
I want a trade that is not trickle-down trade, but trade that recognizes we're in a global economy. -- Nancy Pelosi
The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death. -- Alistair Darling
Innovation, I believe, is the only way that America will regain the initiative in a global dynamic economy. -- John Sculley
Global warming threatens our health, our economy, our natural resources, and our children's future. It is clear we must act. -- Eliot Spitzer
We know from hard research that educated populations have lower growth rates, are more peaceful, and add to the global economy. -- Peter Diamandis
The most convincing and enduring foe of the global financial economy ultimately is the global financial economy itself. - Ulrich Beck -- Richard Swift
Even more fundamental than housing to the global financial economy is the idea that the U.S. government is a safe asset. -- Ezra Klein
Amongst high unemployment rates, a competitive job market and a shrinking global economy, the emerging social media industry only continues to grow. -- Ryan Holmes
So long as the global economy continues to recover, that remains Obama's No. 1 claim to successful leadership. Nothing else even comes close. -- Thomas P.M. Barnett
The promoters of the global economy...see nothing odd or difficult about unlimited economic growth or unlimited consumption in a limited world. -- Wendell Berry
Free trade, far from protectionism, is the path that we should take to make Latin America a thriving actor in the global economy. -- Enrique Pena Nieto
Leaders of institutions everywhere have lost trust. The global economy is stalled and the world is deeply divided, too unequal, unstable and unsustainable. -- Don Tapscott
The realities of the modern global economy require government to play a substantial role in ensuring the national and economic security of the people. -- Matthew Continetti
Any difficulties which the world faces today will be as nothing compared to the full effects which global warming will have on the world-wide economy. -- Prince Charles
I think there's a lot of merit in an international economy and global markets, but they're not sufficient because markets don't look after social needs. -- George Soros
Here in Australia we do get impacted by global economic events. But we should have some confidence that our economy has got strong underlying fundamentals. -- Julia Gillard
I don't think anyone can speculate what will happen with respect to oil prices and gas prices because they are set on the global economy. -- Ken Salazar
The American consumer, even today, the weight of the American consumer in the global economy is China plus India doubled. So, it's tough to replace that. -- Fareed Zakaria
The pattern is clear: if we could speed up time, it would seem as if the global economy is crashing against the earth - the Great Collision. -- James Gustave Speth
As difficult as it is to eliminate the risk of nuclear warfare, it requires fewer changes to the global economy than does averting or reversing climate change. -- Graciela Chichilnisky
A global economy is characterized not only by the free movement of goods and services but, more important, by the free movement of ideas and of capital. -- George Soros
In today's global economy, however, it is important to raise the bar of excellence even higher. Today's students must be prepared to compete effectively on an international level. -- Kenny Marchant
It's time to end the hypocrisy of those who accumulate wealth through the global economy, and then siphon funds to those who teach children to tear it down. -- Barack Obama
There is no way to turn off this global economy, nor should one try. Every previous expansion of global capitalism has led to greater prosperity across the world. -- Fareed Zakaria
Greenhouse gas pollution, through its contribution to global climate change, presents a significant threat to Americans' health and to the environment upon which our economy and security depends. -- Gina McCarthy
Greenhouse gas pollution, through its contribution to global climate change, presents a significant threat to Americans health and to the environment upon which our economy and security depends. -- Gina McCarthy
If the expansion of a global legal regime for communication technologies gains traction, the effects to the global economy as well as our individual liberties will be severe. -- Marsha Blackburn
In 2006, the global economy was doing well. In India, the political and economic situation was stable. All key macroeconomic indicators reflected an economy that was in robust good health. -- Baba Kalyani
And each of these perspectives comes to the same conclusion, which is that our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics. -- David Korten
No generation has had the opportunity, as we now have, to build a global economy that leaves no-one behind. It is a wonderful opportunity, but also a profound responsibility. -- William J. Clinton
[Young people] are much less likely to express attitudes that defied us between us and them. They see themselves as part of a global economy that they can navigate successfully. -- Barack Obama
Investors should be cautiously positioned as the global economy and markets face major uncertainties. The downgrade will be a further headwind to growth and job creation in the U.S. -- Mohamed El-Erian
We must support government coercion over enforcing international protocols and speed limits on motorways if we want the global economy not to collapse and millions, billions of people to die. -- Rowan Williams
Without international participation, jobs and emissions will simply shift overseas to countries that require few, if any, environmental protections, harming the global environment as well as the U.S. economy. -- Fred Upton
I think in our global economy, uncertainty is ever increasing. So to accommodate to that, we need to build a dynamic economy and dynamic rules that can adapt to changing circumstances. -- Myron Scholes
We're in a tightening cycle and the reason is the economy is growing, there's no expectation that the global economy and the Polish economy as a consequence could slow down dramatically. -- Marek Belka
As from the 1970's onward, digital code started to drive the global economy, now life code is beginning to be the fundamental driver of the global economy over the next 10, 20, 30 years. -- Juan Enriquez
Instead of having a set of policies that are equipping people for the globalization of the economy, we have policies that are accelerating the most destructive trends of the global economy. -- Barack Obama
Henry Ford was right. A prosperous economy requires that workers be able to buy the products that they produce. This is as true in a global economy as a national one. -- John Sweeney
The most pressing and significant problems in the global economy are unsustainable structural issues with regard to the E.U. - fiscal deficits and the structure of the E.U. itself. -- Henry Paulson
In the emerging global economy, everything is mobile: capital, factories, even entire industries. The only resource that's really rooted in a nation--and the ultimate source of all its wealth--is its people. -- William J. Clinton
Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene. -- Wendy Kopp
The purpose of the corporation must be redefined as creating shared value, not just profit per se. This will drive the next wave of innovation and productivity growth in the global economy. -- Michael Porter
The lack of monetary discipline has become a hallmark of unfettered globalization. Central banks have failed to provide a stable underpinning to world financial markets and to an increasingly asset-dependent global economy. -- Stephen S. Roach
Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their adherents a well-deserved F in any freshman economics (or earth science) class. -- Eric Alterman
The best kept secret in the global economy today is this: When your service is AWESOME you get so stinking rich you have to buy new bags to carry all the money home. -- Tom Peters
Europe would be well advised to pay more attention to Latin America. The emerging economies are the engines of the global economy. Colombia has done too little to improve its reputation in Europe. -- Juan Manuel Santos
I think business, government and unions have to work together, and the common enemies to the global economy. We're being beaten by the global economy, and we've got to unite together to win. -- Stephen Pagliuca
Sanaz Minaei [business woman] shows a visitor a cooking class at one of her several companies and says the opportunities for Iran are huge if only the country can rejoin the global economy as promised. -- Lourdes Garcia-Navarro
As state leaders, I think its important for us to provide our perspectives on issues we face every day - like access to school spending, access to health care and governing in a global economy. -- Bill Richardson
We must retool our nation to prepare for the challenge we already face to maintain our position in the global economy. And this much is certain America will not have national security without economic security. -- Senator John Kerry
Business has to have capital.I think Wall Street is a necessary ingredient of the global economy, you've just got to keep people realizing that helping clients is the most important thing, not helping yourself. -- John Kasich
We must retool our nation to prepare for the challenge we already face to maintain our position in the global economy. And this much is certain: America will not have national security without economic security. -- John F. Kerry
Time and again weâ??ve seen that reducing poverty comes down to economic opportunity-not just connecting the poor to services like banking, but ensuring they can be producers on fair terms in the global economy. -- Leila Janah
There are many issues in the global economy in general and in the western economy as well: population ageing, drop in labour productivity growth rates. This is obvious. The overall demographic situation is very complicated. -- Vladimir Putin

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