I have travelled in the country enough to know that the concerns of villages in Rajasthan will be very different from the issues in the villages of Tamil Nadu. Anybody who makes a general remark about India probably doesn’t know India. James Wolfensohn Read Quote
You need to have a secure Israel, which is very clear, and you need to have a Palestinian community that feels it can have hope. James Wolfensohn Read Quote
I’m not at all sure that Israel can determine what happens in Palestine, the Palestinian territories. James Wolfensohn Read Quote
My view is to try and not demonize the Palestinians. I’m not denying that there are Palestinians who fire rockets and do terrible things; I know that that happens. But to get a fundamental solution, you have to have hope on both sides. James Wolfensohn Read Quote
The interesting thing about debt in most cases is that you have to pay it back. So if you build an overhang of debt, it becomes more and more limiting in terms of the prospect that you have. James Wolfensohn Read Quote
So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty. James Wolfensohn Read Quote
You can’t compete globally unless you have appropriate communication skills. James Wolfensohn Read Quote
We have three billion people, half the world’s population today, living on less than two dollars a day. James Wolfensohn Read Quote
