Government Quotes by Thomas Pogge

I think that many citizens understand how our system works, or rather, fails to work, for structural reasons. But who has the capacity and…

— Thomas Pogge

The massive corruption common in so many developing countries would be quite impossible if Western countries did not provide convenient opportunities to ship ill-gotten…

— Thomas Pogge

What we should do is require or at least permit innovators to license their green innovations free of charge in exchange for public payments…

— Thomas Pogge

You can get an ice-cold Coke for around fifty cents in most developing countries, not just in the major population centers, but at the…

— Thomas Pogge

I think one big improvement would be if we somehow made it cheaper and easier for developing countries to learn from the sad experience…

— Thomas Pogge

Purchasing power parities are not a reasonable method for comparing households across countries or currencies. The reason for this is simply that PPPs are…

— Thomas Pogge

The extremely low respect Congress enjoys among the population indicates that the citizens understand broadly what's going on. But the lack of a realistic…

— Thomas Pogge

One citizen, or a few, may be powerless if all the rest are determined to benefit from the imposition of unjust supranational rules. But…

— Thomas Pogge

Severe poverty is getting better by some measures, but it's also becoming ever more scandalous because it is now so easily avoidable.

— Thomas Pogge

To improve global health, it's not enough just to have a really good new product and to obtain marketing approval. You still need to…

— Thomas Pogge

We have the ability now to arrange global economic institutions so that poverty declines to a fraction of what it is now.

— Thomas Pogge

Dictatorial regimes often manage to keep themselves in power because they are recognized by foreigners as representing the state and its people, and therefore…

— Thomas Pogge

Drafts of domestic legislation must be published, debated and publicly voted on, which gives ample opportunities to civil society organizations and ordinary citizens to…

— Thomas Pogge

In the United States there are only two exceptions: banks have to report deposits they suspect to be related to either terrorism or drug…

— Thomas Pogge

Large companies are very good at solving extremely complex problems in a globally optimal way.

— Thomas Pogge