Bill Clinton Global Quotations

We have to show the benefits of democracy and globalization to ordinary citizens. If we don't put a human face on the global economy and we don't put a competence factor into local democracy, then both will eventually be rejected by ordinary people in Africa and throughout the world.

It will be good for our souls because global poverty is an affront and confronting the challenge is simply the right thing to do.

That whether you are British, American or some other nationality, the No 1 task is to move from inter-dependence -- which can be good or bad -- to an integrated global community in which there is a shared future, shared responsibilities, shared prosperity and, most importantly, shared values. . . . The only way we can live together is if we say the celebration of our differences requires us to say that our common humanity matters more.

Those same closed economies, isolated from the risks of the global economy, have also been isolated from its fullest awards.

The global economy is giving more of our own people, and billions around the world, the chance to work and live and raise their families with dignity.

You, the American people, have made our passage into the global information age an era of great American renewal.

Turning away from trade would keep part of our global community forever on the bottom.

We could reduce the future that we can build for our children if we respond to the challenges in the wrong way. Whatever we do we have to have a care for the security of our nation, the character of our people and the future of our children. We must respond in a way that is consistent with the larger obligation that we all have to build a more integrated global community.