Bigger Quote by Paddy Ashdown

The great multinationals are unwilling to face the moral and economic contradictions of their own behavior - producing in low-wage dictatorships and selling to…

— William Greider

Large multinational corporations, often acting through their industry lobbies, exert a powerful influence on the formulation of domestic rules and on their application -…

— Thomas Pogge

Companies and capital operate internationally, often beyond the economic reach of any particular nation-state. People are pretty global, too, living lives that freely cross…

— Chrystia Freeland

Governments have been ceding power to big multinational corporations in the market. We see the manifest in a variety of ways. Where governments are…

— Noreena Hertz

Multinational companies exploit national differences to abuse their workers, to dodge their taxes and to 'regulation shop' as a means to avoid meeting their…

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

With the globalization, it's difficult for governments to impose decisions on private companies.

— Ehud Barak

Governments have budgets but no money, companies have money but no budgets.

— Shimon Peres

Developing countries often have hypertrophied bureaucracies, requiring businesses to deal with enormous amounts of red tape.

— James Surowiecki

Budgets can make or break reputations and governments.

— Priti Patel

In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world are free…

— Zygmunt Bauman

My observation on most people in national governments is that they have very little interest in and very little knowledge of the multinational institutions.

— James Wolfensohn

Sometimes, companies are better placed than politicians and governments to make change happen. That doesn't mean that they should not be held to account…

— Taavet Hinrikus