Global governance need not take a democratic form.

What we need is political leadership which can give guidance to the development of global governance. We need business leadership which goes beyond shareholder…

— Juan Somavia

It is obvious that humanity faces existential threats of a global nature. They are global in the sense that is not possible to deal…

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

When you look at good governance, you also need to look at how you approach the subject.

— Cyrus Pallonji Mistry

You need governance, but you also need a middle class, you need agriculture, they need to be able to export. I think that's probably…

— Sean Penn

You need a Democratic Party which is a grassroots party, which makes decisions from the bottom on up, not just from the top on…

— Bernie Sanders

Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means for molding…

— Albert Einstein

For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument Kyoto Protocol of global governance,"..."By acting together, by building this unprecedented instrument, the first…

— Jacques Chirac

The European Union will continue to fully support multilateral global governance based on international law, human rights, and strong international institutions.

— Federica Mogherini

Either the Earth System would undergo major phase transitions as a result of unchecked human pressure on nature's capacities and resources or a "Great…

— Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

Global governance is just a euphemism for global government.

— Jacques Attali

Neither transitions nor transformations will be manageable without novel forms of global governance and markets

— Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

Global governance needs recalibrating so it works in the public interest of all the world's citizens - not just for the few.

— Winnie Byanyima

Global governance cannot be limited to the crafting of instruments related to the promotion of democracy. A key component must be the creation of…

— Kamla Persad-Bissessar

We desperately need some new thinking today about systems of global governance. We're stuck with the same obsolete, ignore-the-earth institutions that were brough into…

— Jonathon Porritt

“The balance of power in the economy is shifting toward a small number of companies and very definitely away from policy makers and those…

— Haydn Shaughnessy