Best quotes by James Wolfensohn on World

Checkout quotes by James Wolfensohn on World

• ‟ If you enter the World Bank office in Washington, D.C., you will see written on the left wall, 'The purpose of the World Bank is to fight poverty with passion.' I had it put up there because I wanted something that unites us as an institution.

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• ‟ I was deeply concerned then, and have become more concerned since, that unless we can deal with the questions of development and the questions of poverty, there's no way that we're going to have a peaceful world for our children.

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• ‟ We have three billion people, half the world's population today, living on less than two dollars a day.

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• ‟ The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality.

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• ‟ The poor people of the world tend to be the places that al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups can recruit.

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• ‟ Many people of my generation grew up in developed countries thinking that the world was divided into two parts and that there was a wall round the developed world. They thought that poor people had no relevance to us. What happened on September 11 was that anybody who thought there was a wall now knows that there is no wall.

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