#Global Quotes

“I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.”

“Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.”

“Never could I advocate nonviolence in this country and not advocate nonviolence for the whole world.”

“We love and lose in China, we weep on England's moors, and laugh and moan in Guinea, and thrive on Spanish shores. We seek success in Finland, are born and die in Maine. In minor ways we differ, in major we're the same.”

“The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world - Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon - there are more Muhammads than anything else.”

“As long as there is poverty in the world I can never be rich, even if I have a billion dollars. As long as diseases are rampant and millions of people in this world cannot expect to live more than twenty-eight or thirty years, I can never be totally healthy even if I just got a good checkup at Mayo Clinic. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the way our world is made. No individual or nation can stand out boasting of being independent. We are interdependent.”

“We aren't going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.”

“Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race which no one can win to a positive contest to harness man's creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all of the nations of the world.”

“We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism.”

“As far as world war goes, there are really only two possibilities: either war provokes revolution, or revolution averts war.”

“All over this world people are standing up for freedom.”

“People of the world, unite and defeat the U.S. aggressors and all their running dogs!”

“Unless liberty flourishes in all lands, it cannot flourish in one.”

“All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'”

“The Family of Man is more than 3 billion strong. It lives in more than 100 nations. Most of its members are not white. Most of them are not Christians. Most of them know nothing about free enterprise or due process of law or the Australian ballot.”

“Look at South Africa, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East. They still have many problems, setbacks as well as breakthroughs, but basically changes have happened that were considered unthinkable a decade ago.”

“I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.”

“India is more of an aid recipient than a provider of aid.”

“Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.”

“The key thing you can do to reduce population growth is actually improve health.”

“Well the Global Fund, because of how well it's worked on not only AIDS, but also malaria and tuberculosis, I'd say it's well accepted. I mean, it's not politically controversial that this is a great humanitarian effort. But budgets are very very tight.”

“The US really has to get out in front. We are the biggest per person, by a substantial amount, greenhouse emitters, and we give the most foreign aid, not per person but in absolute.”

“Anyway, the US, as in most issues, is the best, has the best capability to lead, and really needs to lead. It doesn't [mean] that other countries won't pick different tacks and emphasize different things. In aggregate, they're almost half of the energy R&D. Europe, China, Japan - it's very important that they come along and contribute to these things.”

“Most poor people live in the poorest countries.”

“People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.”

“Whenever you have war, you often have more deaths because the medical system and the food system breaks down, than you have directly through violence.”

“The billion people who wake up every day trying to figure out if they have enough food to eat won't be at Davos.”

“China and the U.S. need each other very badly. Yes, we should argue about some things, but it's not an 'us versus them,' it's an 'us and them' type scenario.”

“My first big mission for UNICEF in Ethiopia was just to attract attention, before it was too late, to conditions which threatened the whole country. My role was to inform the world, to make sure that the people of Ethiopia were not forgotten.”

“Convergence of our views on global trade issues under the WTO and our common resolve to combat terrorism provide a valuable base for mutual understanding.”

“There has to be a global mission of human progress.”

“Medical costs are of concern, both in developing and developed countries.”