Hard Quote by James Wolfensohn

The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality.

— James Wolfensohn

If you're changing the status quo, whatever move you make is disrupting something else.

— James Wolfensohn

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

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

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

I'm not at all sure that Israel can determine what happens in Palestine, the Palestinian territories.

— James Wolfensohn

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

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

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

In a democracy, you can be right and still lose power.

— James Wolfensohn

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

The issue of poverty is not a statistical issue. It is a human issue.

— James Wolfensohn