Brian Behlendorf Quotes

But, we have had the debate in our country now for a number of years as to whether or not free trade agreements are good for economic growth and economic opportunity in creating jobs and lifting people out of poverty.

I believe there is no other way to create decent livelihoods for the world's poorest people than to connect them to global markets as producers, and on fair terms.

Build a global economy that will lift up—and not drag down—our people and all the people of the world.

Globalization and technical change are the guarantee of our future prosperity. And reversing on that will not only make things worse, but it will make things worse for a very large number of people around the world who have benefitted - people in China and India who have been dragged out of the most awful poverty.

China is a BRIC country. BRIC country means Brazil, Russia, India and China. This emerging economy really is helping the revival of the world economy.

China's development benefits other countries.

Today, being the biggest developing countries in the world, China and India are both committed to developing their economy and raising their people's living standards.

The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.

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

Free trade should not mean free labor.

In May 2007, congressional Democrats and the Bush administration agreed to a plan to include environmental and international labor standards in upcoming trade agreements.

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

We may believe in the state's responsibility to alleviate the crushing poverty that afflicts 40 percent of Latin America's population, but most of us also affirm that there is no better cure for that poverty than a stronger, more globally integrated economy.

I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.

Global poverty is falling faster today than at any time in human history.

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries

We have got to put a human face on the global economy.

Africa has no time to lose. The global economy is fast leaving our continent behind.

Free trade is good but not as good as fair trade.

A vicious circle of increasing emigration resulting in a smaller domestic market depleted of initiative and skill, and a reduced incentive … to undertake and organize the productive enterprises which alone can provide increased employment opportunities and higher living standards…. Protectionism, both in agriculture and industry would have to give way to active participation in a free-trading world.

Young people in the third world can participate in global security if they also can participate in global prosperity.

This globalization is lifting up hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. The Left needs to see that.

If governments start to go it alone on trade, it will become harder, not easier, to generate the jobs and rising incomes that angry electorates want.

We want trade agreements that aid development and increase prosperity, growth and productivity at home and in our trade partner countries.

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