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We encourage China to engage as a good global citizen and we are clear-eyed about where differences do lie. -- Julia Gillard
I think I'm a global citizen. My parents came from China, were educated in France and emigrated to the United States. And I think that opened up my mind to be able to live and work anywhere. -- Anna Sui
What I'd love to do is work with kids in the U.S. to raise their awareness and encourage them to be global citizens. We're all connected these days; we can listen to the same music as kids all around the world and share our ideas. -- Jason Mraz
During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not. -- Maya Angelou
I thought of myself as a global citizen. -- Eduardo Saverin
We have to be the best global citizens we can be. -- Thomas Friedman
When the world is in trouble, Australia responds. Australia is a good, global citizen. -- Tony Abbott
I was born in Brazil, I was an American citizen for about 10 years. I thought of myself as a global citizen. -- Eduardo Saverin
I am often asked what can people do to become a good global citizen? I reply that it begins in your own community. -- Kofi Annan
The world would be a paradise of peace and justice if global citizens shared a common definition of love which would guide our thoughts and action. -- bell hooks
You have to take ownership and leadership of tomorrow. For that to be possible, you have to strengthen your capacity and widen your vision as a global citizen. -- Ban Ki-moon
How great musicians demonstrate a mutual respect and trust on the bandstand can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every aspect of your life, understanding what it means to be a global citizen in the most modern sense. -- Wynton Marsalis
What comes forth from you as an artist cannot be controlled. But you have responsibilities as a global citizen. Your history dictates your duty. And by writing about black people, you are not limiting yourself. The experiences of African-Americans are as wide open as God's closet. -- August Wilson
Kate Otto, like so many in her generation, is committed to being a good global citizen and doing her part to make the world a better place. Everyday Ambassador is a refreshing approach which encourages collaborative work with focus, empathy, humility and patience to better affect positive change in communities throughout the world. -- Ann Veneman
I think of myself as a global citizen. -- Bill Gates
As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity. -- Wole Soyinka
To become a true global citizen, one must abandon all notions of 'otherness' and instead embrace 'togetherness'. -- Suzy Kassem
It's important to be a global citizen at the same time and appreciate different cultures and different people and different ways of life. -- Dakota Fanning
You know, I don't think of myself as anything like a 'global citizen' or anything of the sort. I am just a Nigerian who's comfortable in other places. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We don't see the global citizen as someone with no identity, but rather someone who has confidence and is proud of his culture and history - and... open to the modern world. -- Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned
President Nixon was a pragmatic strategist. He would engage, not contain, China, but he would also quietly set pieces into place for a fallback position should China not play according to the rules as a good global citizen. -- Lee Kuan Yew
The phrase "global citizen" always gets tossed around with my work, and part of it is that, clearly, talking about being a global citizen is the only way we can talk about participating in globalization without feeling like assholes. -- Anne Elizabeth Moore
Invest time in languages and intercultural awareness. Focus on becoming part of global citizenry. In exchange for the opportunity to participate everywhere/anywhere in the world you have the obligation to do something productive, which will improve the world. Develop a personal mission, a desire to leave personal legacy. -- C. K. Prahalad
We have started something called the Corporate Services Corps. Now, it was modeled after the Peace Corps from long ago, the 1960s. And the idea was in this modern day and age, how do you get IBM'ers around the world to be global citizens? You know, globally aware, contribute, understand how to work in that environment, but do it on scale. -- Ginni Rometty
Using cold facts and figures, leaders throughout the West must become more transparent with their citizens in explaining their decisions and their choices in global markets. -- Victor Ponta
The message from national security experts and citizens around the world is clear: The only way to eliminate the global nuclear danger is to eliminate all nuclear weapons. -- Michael Douglas
Learning from the American experience, governments around the world have developed national innovation policies and programs to accelerate their economic prosperity and to help their citizens and companies compete globally. -- Robert Hormats
We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world. -- Yuan T. Lee
As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level. -- Paul Wellstone
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
I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety? -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
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
Now, I do not, on any level, possess the expertise to argue about the science of anthropological global warming. Nor do you, most likely. This certainly doesn't mean an average citizen has the duty to do the lock step. -- David Harsanyi
Too often, governments are quick to use excessive force and even pervert the course of justice to keep oil and gas flowing, forests logged, wild rivers dammed and minerals extracted. As the Global Witness study reveals, citizens are often killed, too - especially if they're poor and indigenous. -- David Suzuki
A number of countries, including Russia and China, have put forward proposals to regulate aspects of the Internet like 'crime' and 'security' that are currently unregulated at the global level due to lack of international consensus over what those terms actually mean or over how to balance enforcement with the protection of citizens' rights. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital. -- Vandana Shiva

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