73 Quotes by Robert Zoellick

Rwanda is a landlocked country, but it hasn't stopped developing. They built a high-end tourism industry around the mountain gorillas.

The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take.

The Congress has had an uneasy relationship with banks and bankers since Alexander Hamilton. It took the United States until 1913 to set up a central bank. The Federal Reserve earned its hard-won independence over years of effort.

When I consider a problem, it is now instinctive for me to think about the institutions involved, the authorizing environment, possible coalitions, likely opposition, implementation, legal issues, resource dimensions, communications - and how the problem fits into a stream of other issues.

Since I came to the World Bank in 2007, I have argued that we must 'modernize multilateralism.'

It is much harder for economies to prosper if they cannot sell to, buy from, invest with, and even transit their neighbors. Landlocked countries with failed or failing neighbors can lose access to the world economy.

An empowered public is the foundation for a stronger society, more effective government, and a more successful state.

Great upheavals produce shock waves that widen cracks in political, economic, and security orders. Sometimes the old orders break. Yet it can be in the power of leaders and peoples to shape the directions of change.

It is clearly the case that programs in Europe and the United States that have increased biofuel production have contributed to the added demand for food.