Today, you have 20 percent of the world controlling 80 percent of the Gross Domestic Product; you've got a $30 trillion (US) world economy, and $24 trillion of it is in the developed countries... These inequities can't exist. So if… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
If you're changing the status quo, whatever move you make is disrupting something else. — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
The future is in our hands. We are not hapless bystanders. We can influence whether we have a planet of peace, social justice, equity,… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about debt in most cases is that you have to pay it back. So if you build an overhang of debt,… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
The Bank had never used the word 'corruption' at all until I got there, and the reason for that was, as the general counsel… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
I'm not at all sure that Israel can determine what happens in Palestine, the Palestinian territories. — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
First of all, the people left, and they're now coming back. What we have to do is try and help them regain their lives, and the cause of the need for the immediate money is to establish some system of government. You must remember that Kosovo was never self-standing, and so we have to create that government structure, and that's,… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share
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… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
I saw it with my own eyes: Israelis and Palestinians, arm in arm, walking off together and clearly pricing how you could get your… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
Kosovo is an agricultural economy particularly. It also has a couple of good power stations that exported power, and the big cooperative which they had there in the mining field is no longer functioning. So there is no immediate employment available for people in the industrial sector. All that needs to be going. But you will remember that it is… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share
The issue of poverty is not a statistical issue. It is a human issue. — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
