Quotes About Globalization

You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country?

Toyota is doing a neat job coming in to the sport - no one ever thought that there would be a day when Toyota would participate in an American-made, American-born sport like Nascar but they're doing a fantastic job.

I am not a supporter of the rhetoric of, 'Dear, dear, the toys have got lead paint.' If I had a manufacturer in China that allowed that to happen, I'd fire them instantly.

One of the most important political and economic facts of this young century is that capital has been slipping the traces of the nation-state. Business is global; government is national.

We can pretend that China is not there. But China is there, and unless we put our economy on the right track, it is going to overwhelm us completely.

E-commerce is a powerful means to connect the unconnected to global trade.

The biggest single thing that has lifted people out of poverty is free trade.

In the long run, outsourcing is another form of trade that benefits the U.S. economy by giving us cheaper ways to do things.

Politicians of both parties told us that free trade with Asia and Latin America would spur economic growth, and maybe it did somewhere else. In our towns, though, factories continue shutting down or moving overseas.

I'm not opposed to free trade if it's fair trade. But I am opposed to bad trade deals.

Although more than 500 million maritime containers move around the world each year, accounting for 90 per cent of international trade, only 2 per cent are inspected. Strengthening customs and immigration systems is essential.

Mountains and oceans do not furnish any impassable barrier to the extension of trade.

Nonetheless, the developing countries must be able to reap the benefits of international trade.

I certainly believe that we gain through open trade and liberalisation.

Trade, tourism, cultural exchange, and participation in international institutions all serve to erode the legitimacy of repressive regimes.

People say free trade causes dislocation. In actual fact, it's the lowering of trade barriers that causes the dislocation.

The Bush Administration and the Congress have to stop ignoring this crisis in international trade. The longer we ignore it, the more American jobs will move overseas. It's just that simple.

People have looked at all sorts of effects of globalization and blamed trade. But it's lots of things.

We need no elaborate statistical proof that trade depends on prosperity in the industrial countries.

Trade is an integral part of our foreign policy.

A single economy makes the constant adjustments necessary to facilitate trade impossible.

Growing up, I had a sense of the importance of commerce and trade to everyday life. Our family lived in several countries, and I was fascinated by the free exchange of goods and services between individuals and companies - the way both parties could benefit.

I'm quite an advocate of free trade.

Free trade is the way to bring jobs and prosperity.