Moon Jae-in Quotes

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.

Specifically, the U.S. holds strength. Its own context makes it a very competitive country, but I believe that if we recognize how interdependent the U.S. with its neighbors from the North and the South, we are part of NAFTA, a trade agreement.

I am a very big proponent of opening the borders with India. Most of our trade is done through unofficial channels. Why not open the trade?

In the U.K., we have always been an open, trading nation, enriched by our global links. Contemporary patterns of migration extend this tradition.

I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade of each becomes more valuable to the other.

In a complex and challenging time, the road of isolationism and protectionism may seem broad and inviting — yet it ends in danger and decline.

International economic cooperation has delivered benefits to the United States and other countries that would have been impossible to attain otherwise.

We were able to sign free trade agreement with Europe at a time when people tend to be closing off.

There are no regions in the world as reciprocally integrated as Latin America and the Caribbean, and Europe.

I think of the world as geographical regions, and it excites me to think about the opportunity that Europe can have if we consider it to be the 500-million-people region that it is.

With all the globalisation that has taken place, countries are a lot more interdependent and therefore 'coupled.'

The U.S.-Mexico border has often been described as an open wound. NAFTA was expected to heal it, albeit through a long, slow, and imperfect scarring process, by creating a basic framework for cooperation between the two countries.

We applauded and endorsed the One Belt, One Road initiative and we are proud that together with China, we are implementing its flagship mega project - China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.

I think it is important that we should be on the side of keeping borders open with respect to trade and movement of factors of production.

Trade transcends party lines here in Washington, and it unifies stakeholders across the globe.

The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.

The Eurasian union is a project meant to preserve the identities of nations and the historic Eurasian community in the new century, in a new world.

The main concept is that of an international solidarity expressed in practice through worldwide division of labor: free trade is the principal point in the program of internationalism.

We live in a global village. No country can live in isolation of others like Robinson Crusoe.

The global community has become irreversibly interdependent, with the constant movement of people, ideas, goods and resources.

We feel no isolation. But, having said that, I want to emphasise in particular that we do not want to go to extremes and abandon the European and American directions in our foreign economic cooperation.

There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.

It is in my heart that I believe most strongly that our future is within a reformed E.U. - not least because we now live in a global marketplace.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

The more we can open the border [with the US] the more we can develop.