The first thing that you need to deal with is the issue of equity and poverty. — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
What we need to do is increase the totality of money that is given to the poorest areas and then we can… — 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,… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
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… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
The issue of poverty is not a statistical issue. It is a human issue. — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
