Quotes About Globalization

Trade has helped the economy grow. Simultaneously, a sizable number of Americans haven't shared in that bounty, and if we don't pay attention to their concerns, all the political favor for open markets will dry up.

The whole idea of having a free trade area when you have gyrating exchange rates doesn't make sense at all. It just spoils the effect of any kind of free trade agreement.

The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising the rest of the world to our standard and price, than by lowering the prices here to the standard of the Continent.

Our trade opens to all the world.

NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty.

Foreign trade clearly has been a reason why inflation has been low.

In this day and age when we do so much business in foreign trade, we need the ability to identify trace an animal very quickly, identifying where it came from - where it has been, and where it is at today.

Free trade should not mean free labor.

Likewise, free trade does not, as evidenced in CAFTA, mean fair trade.

American consumers benefit from free trade and investment.

To try to correct imbalances with trade restrictions is a grave error.

We were talking about really getting Europe on its feet. It was our hope that there would be a breakdown of trade barriers in Europe first, and then eventually a breakdown internationally, which would help increase trade with Europe.

I think bolstering free trade is a boon to the dollar.

While I believe firmly in open markets and free trade, I also believe an open market needs a level playing field.

Mexico is the only country in the world that has a trade agreement with United States and Canada, and at the same time has one with Europe. These are the two largest markets in the world. By the same token, Mexico has one of the most open economies.

The whole world is determined by trade - which is really the blood of the world. The driving force is everyone's desire to have a better life. How? By consuming. For countries, the 'Holy Grail' is economic growth.

Trade liberalization can be contagious, and the opening of markets regionally can spark progress multilaterally as well.

There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraints slow economic growth, the euro is not a reserve currency, and scoreless sports ties are boring.

Public protests against globalization - protests that occur by and large in the prosperous West - denounce free trade and the mobility of capital as instruments of exploitation and oppression.

There is no better form of trade a developing nation can engage in than to sell services provided by an educated population.

China has concluded that trade trumps all.

Free trade will go a long way toward alleviating poverty in Central America. Yet trade alone is not enough.

Happily, financial capitalism and free trade have not done away with national languages and literatures, as Marx rather too blithely hoped.

I believe in free trade. I don't support regulating trade prices between different regions. Our point of view is we don't want trade barriers between different countries.