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" Technology can be used to make people's lives easier, to reduce inequality, to facilitate inclusion, or to solve intractable global problems, but without dialogue and governance, it can be used against humanity - the choice on how we use technology is ours. "

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" Corporate greed, corporate bullying cannot be tolerated - it's time for a global rule of law to guarantee fair trade, rights, minimum wages on which people can live with dignity, and safe and secure work. "

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" Until you separate the speculative behaviour of the financial sector from the real economy and the financing of the real economy, then we are not going to see the kind of stability or the capacity to drive genuine, income-led growth as opposed to debt-fuelled, speculative behaviour. "

" Growing inequality is exacerbated by the companies who simply treat workers as commodities, and our governments are cowered by their demands to perpetuate this model of greed. "

" Politically, we have seen the impact of social media organizing people through the Arab Spring. "

" Globalization can be shaped to ensure that people matter. "

" As we contemplate a world which is still choosing to deploy technological innovation in a way that deepens inequality and divisions within and between nations, we need to set global foundations back on track. "

" Wealth is being generated off the back of oppression and abuse. "

" As universal a truth as the rising and setting of the sun each day, the global economy needs people. "

" If you put stimulus into an economy, you know there is a time lag in terms of depending where you invest it. If it's family transfers, it might be quick. If it's infrastructure, it might be two, three, five years. "

" Democracy is rarely easy, nor swift. "

" The concept of 'green jobs' or a 'green economy' is often attacked as the work of the Grimm Brothers by those wedded to the grim science of free-market economics. "

" Climate impacts hit working people first, and with extreme weather events, changing seasons, and rising sea levels, whole communities stand on the front lines. "

" We need investment in green economy infrastructure; public services, training and education; and a multilateral plan to create youth job opportunities. "

" Market-led globalization is leading to a race to the bottom, where efficiency and profit matter more than a fair share for working people. "

" Anyone who has lived in an area with high unemployment knows how it erodes social bonds, lowers the resilience of the unemployed and their families, and damages the prospects of the next generation. "

" Work has always been influenced by technology and will continue to be. "

" The corporate community understands the need for rules. Indeed, it argues for regulation to protect intellectual property, physical property rights, and contract law. So why does it oppose global regulation to protect people and the environment? "

" You'd never plan a career like I've had. "

" Limiting the destructive risk-taking by large financial firms and banks which are 'too big to fail' is needed. "

" Disproportionate corporate power over governments is giving license to the greed that denies workers even minimum living wages. It is also seemingly a license to allow the sheer brutality of treatment of working people at the base of the supply chains. "

" When women are expected to bear the burden of unpaid work, everyone loses. "

" Workers in Myanmar must have an effective remedy when their rights are violated. "

" Many communities are already devastated by poverty. Increasingly, that poverty is born of the greed of a global trading system. "

" We all eat breakfast in the morning, we all go to sleep at night, and we all want our kids to have opportunities that we didn't. "

" There is a great deal of sympathy amongst workers for the Occupy Wall Street movement. We understand their frustration. "

" What Qatar chose is a system where a worker is owned by his employer. When your employer forces you to live in squalor, makes you work longest hours in extreme heat, doesn't allow you to change jobs, doesn't pay your wages on time, abuses you physically and psychologically, you have no way out, you can't leave. You are trapped. "

" If people do not have jobs, they do not have a secure income, and they do not have a sense of security. "

" If multilateral institutions cannot bring about peace and the rule of law because of the vested interests of their members, then both national democracy and global governance will continue to be rocked by crises. "

" Democracy is becoming collateral damage in a world where global risks have been ignored or exacerbated by those with the power to act. "

" Banks don't come with an internal switch that says, 'Enough! Let's slow down a little.' Or, 'Let's just share this wealth around for the benefit of the community now.' That's the job of government. "