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Globalization is a fact of economic life.

We must create a kind of globalization that works for everyone... and not just for a few.

'Globalization' has become the great tag phrase, but when we talk about it, it's nearly always in terms of the global marketplace or communications technology - either data or goods that are whizzing around. We forget that people are whizzing around more and more. On them, it takes a toll.

Globalization is not a monolithic force but an evolving set of consequences - some good, some bad and some unintended. It is the new reality.

Globalization means we have to re-examine some of our ideas, and look at ideas from other countries, from other cultures, and open ourselves to them. And that's not comfortable for the average person.

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

We talk about globalization today as if it's some great big new thing, that we've all just discovered. But there's really nothing new about it.

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.