James Wolfensohn Quotes
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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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As you look at the flow of Muslim fundamentalism, or fundamentalism in various areas and various religions, they all play on the people who have very little.
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You can't compete globally unless you have appropriate communication skills.
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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 have travelled in the country enough to know that the concerns of villages in Rajasthan will be very different from the issues in the villages of Tamil Nadu. Anybody who makes a general remark about India probably doesn't know India.
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Rebuilding Afghanistan is not going to be solved by pouring billions in. Getting rid of the Taliban does not rid us of the problems of fundamentalism and instability.
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So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty.