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Quotes About Export

To accommodate the rapid influx of Europeans, entire cities were built on the outskirts of Cairo, far away from the indigenous population. The foreigners quickly took charge of Egypt's principal export of cotton. They built ports, railroads, and dams, all to implement colonial control over the country's economy. With the construction of their crowning achievement, the Suez Canal, Egypt's fate as Britain's most valuable colony was sealed. To pay for these massive
~ Reza Aslan
Its patriarchal society became one in which people were reduced to factors of production, with the whole system fueled by desire for export profits.
~ Karl Marx
There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.
~ Helen Thomas
I'd have all the cars made in the Carolinas, and I'd ban the ones made in China.
~ Hank Williams, Jr.
Revolutions are not made for export.
~ Nikita Khrushchev
since Roman times, Europe had been exporting gold and silver to the East: the problem was that Europe had never produced much of anything that Asians wanted to buy, so it was forced to pay in specie for silks, spices, steel, and other imports.
~ David Graeber
It's very important for folks to understand that when there's more trade, there's more commerce.
~ George W. Bush
Until they became the British Empire's greatest voyagers, indeed its greatest export, settling in odd places all around the world. And for that splinter of them that became my people, the Scots-Irish, this meant the Appalachian Mountains, their first stop on their way to creating a way of life that many would come to call, if not American, certainly the defining fabric of the South and the Midwest as well as the core character of the nation's working class.
~ James Webb
Too bad Americans can't export Awesome, because I have boxes and boxes of the stuff just lying around in my attic.
~ Jarod Kintz
It is in the U.S. interest to have a more prosperous neighbor to the south. Because if we cannot export goods, we will keep exporting people. And that's not what the U.S. wants.
~ Óscar Arias
We aren't leveraging this great economic engine, the strongest economy in the world. And yet we have this totally weak response. We import $500 billion a year more in products than we export.
~ Jennifer Granholm
When I look at how the banking world has changed and at the role Chinese banks, for example, play today, Germany, as an export-oriented economy, should be pleased to have a major global player in its camp.
~ Peer Steinbruck
From jazz, the blues, country and rock to Hollywood movies, culture has in many ways been our greatest export (or our most obnoxious one, depending on your point of view).
~ Joy Reid
Pakistan has accepted some security training from the CIA, but U.S. export restrictions and Pakistani suspicions have prevented the two countries from sharing the most sophisticated technology for safeguarding nuclear components.
~ Barton Gellman
Content that's generated out of America, whether it be film or music, has, in my opinion, much greater impact in sustaining our credibility and our place as a cultural capital. This is our great export.
~ Lyor Cohen
America exports its culture world-wide but with us they don't have to surmount a language barrier, and therefore they swamp us. While other European cultures are protected from erosion by their languages, ours is not.
~ Harry Enfield
LET US STOP IMITATING!!! Piracy and imitations of designs hamper the development and expansion of export trade. It is regrettable that there are quite a few cases of piracy in the People's Republic. Piracy injures the Chinese people's international prestige, causes the boycott of Chinese goods, and makes Chinese designers lose interest in making creative efforts.
~ Richard Condon
By 1870, investment in the US oil industry had reached $200 million, the equivalent of almost $4 billion today. Annual production in Pennsylvania alone totaled more than 4.8 million barrels. Only cotton accounted for more US export dollars.
~ Richard Rhodes
El nombre de Brasil llegaría más tarde, en el siglo XVI, cuando los primeros colonos empezaron a exportar un árbol que usaban los indígenas para extraer sus tintes y pintarse de aquella manera que tanto fascinó al oficial portugués, y que llamaron pau-brasil, por desprender un color rojizo al hervirse en el agua, lo que sugería las llamas de un fuego o las brasas del carbón ardiendo. De Terra do pau-brasil acabaría abreviándose a Brasil.
~ Javier Moro
Few anglophones realize that by keeping French words in the "upper stratum" of their discourse, they are granting French a lofty position in their language and culture. As they export English all around the world, French and its high status have become part of the package. It's one of the least-known explanations for the resilience of French today.
~ Jean-Benoît Nadeau
America's biggest export is media and I think that's a positive thing.
~ Aloe Blacc
Federal policy should not block those who are prepared to risk their own wealth to create an enormous energy export industry here in America.
~ Mike Pompeo
Between 1939 and 1945 you produced weapons and war equipment valued at thirteen billion dollars, 70 per cent of which you shipped to your allies. The same process is going on today in Canada's much larger and growing industry.
~ Arthur Hays Sulzberger
Where the West has intervened in African domestic affairs, such as it did in Libya 2011, the country became a cradle of extremism that exports weapons, jihadists, and ideology to the rest of Africa, the Middle East, and Europe.
~ Pete Hoekstra