Peter Blair Henry Quotes

So the American economy needs the world, and the world needs the American economy.

The basic idea was that if a country would put its economy as an integrated piece of the world system, that it would benefit from that with economic growth. I concur with that basic view.

We are only 5 percent of the world's population and 20 percent of the world's economy. We have to be able to trade in order to grow.

It's good for America when the rest of the world grows, because you can sell more to the rest of the world.

Economies that are open to trade grow faster.

[Foreign] Trade is necessary to modern comfort and prosperity.

We have at last awakened to the realization that foreign and domestic trade are not in separate water-tight compartments--that they flow through the same pipes and seek a common level. We cannot live by ourselves, shut off from the balance of the world, without working harm to our economic system that would require many years for repair.

New Zealand obviously is fully integrated into the global economy.

We understand that America's prosperity is bound up with the prosperity of other nations, including emerging market nations.

The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations.

If we didn't have the rest of the world growing, the United States economy would be in much worse shape than it is today.

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

All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.

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

The fact of the matter is that instead of going around the world and haranguing countries for engaging with China, the West should be encouraging its own businesses to trade and invest in these regions.

We have benefited greatly from the globalization of the economy in the last 30 years.

The North American Free Trade Agreement marked a fundamental change in the global trade scheme.

People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money.

We are particularly poor at the open economy issues.

If you look at national economies today, for example, the American economy, the European economy, the Indians, the Chinese, we're all tied together. If one of them sinks, the rest are going to sink with them and if one floats, the rest are lifted up. I find that very interesting.

The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states.

Britain is one of the world's most open economies. More dependent on trade than any other major country. Our success depends on our competitiveness and our competitiveness depends on raising our productivity, as our competitors are raising theirs.

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

We're part of a global economy whether we like it or not.

There is no way out of playing by the rules of the international economy if you wish to be a part of it.