Quotes About Globalization

You don't need to be within the single market to trade; it's not an issue.

The problem with regional trade agreements is you get picked apart by the first country. Then you negotiate with the second country. You get picked apart. And you go with the third one. You get picked apart again.

President Obama has been admirably pro-trade in public remarks, but there has been no progress in moving any new free trade agreements to expand exports abroad and create jobs at home.

People feel these job-killing trade agreements have really squeezed the middle class and caused lots of people to lose their middle-class status.

I think that the world is going to remain a very interconnected place. I don't think there's any getting away from that. The Internet has brought us closer together. I think cross-border trade is going to continue to grow substantially. I think there may be certain trade agreements that can be renegotiated, one way or another.

Trade agreements influence the standards, protections and regulations that shape the kind of society we live in.

Unless the trade deficit shrinks, the combination of the trade deficit and the interest and dividend payments to foreigners will grow ever more rapidly.

Trump will fail even in his proclaimed goal of reducing the trade deficit, which is determined by the disparity between domestic savings and investment.

It's rare to find an Indian who speaks Chinese. It's rare to find a Chinese who can speak any of the Indian languages. Neither of them at the trading level - I want to repeat this, at the trading level - can speak English, either.

I am convinced that China needs to be a strong trading partner with the United States long term.

We don't see any material impact of Brexit, either in the U.K. or in the neighbouring countries and the U.K.'s trading partners.

Russia and China, when they were communist-like adversaries, they didn't participate. They're participating now in the world with us. They're trading monetary instruments. We're buying and selling goods back and forth, trading oil and so forth.

I believe that currency trading should not be a business at all.

I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremost we're part of the global economy.

You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith, is a good notion, but we're all partially different - it's no good imposing systems on people that it doesn't suit.

Old ideas of not trading because 'they won't open their markets to us' miss the entire point of allowing goods to be imported into the United States - because we want and need them and because someone here believes that the good or service received in exchange for our dollars creates value for them.

Great growth in India doesn't mean great growth for India companies. It could mean better growth for companies that are trading with India.

China can and will be an invaluable trading partner to both the U.S. and the U.K.

This medal (the National Book Award) together with my American Express card, will identify me worldwide ... except at Bloomingdale's.

If you want to bring the people of this world together, you have to be willing to engage with countries that do not share our [western] democratic values.

We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together.

Most countries want to bring their people together and tear down physical, commercial and cultural barriers. Anyone who proposes separating them is out of line.

Because the planetary culture is becoming ever more closely knitted together all its parts are becoming co-dependent.

In the space age, man will be able to go around the world in two hours - one hour for flying and one hour to get to the airport.