Globalization as defined by rich
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.
– Jimmy Carter
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- In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and industry was very primitive. At the end of that century, we had men in orbit, we had been to the moon, we had people with cell phones and colour televisions and the Internet
- Thinking of that movie ‘The Artist’; if anyone ever needed to reach anyone, I’m just thinking they didn’t have cell phones, they didn’t have Internet, they didn’t have email, so I always wonder how it was back then where you had to be home if you needed to get a phone call; otherwise, people couldn’t
- The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. – Jimmy Carter
- The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. – Jimmy Carter
- In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, ‘That was the Internet Age.’ And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age. – Reed Hastings
- Woodstock happened in August 1969, long before the Internet and mobile phones made it possible to communicate instantly with anyone, anywhere. It was a time when we weren’t able to witness world events or the horrors of war live on 24-hour news channels. – Richie Havens
- Iraq is an unjust war. – Jimmy Carter
- You’re sort of programmed a certain way because of your environment. That’s all you know. But we don’t have that anymore because of the internet. Because of the internet we’re all communicating with each other all across the board, so you’re getting information from people all around the world, hitting a much more diverse slice
- “We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon.” – Jimmy Carter
- I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go swimming. – Jimmy Carter