Anna Lindh Quotes

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.

America wins when we trade and export and import.

The United States cannot achieve significant economic growth without expanding exports.

The U.S. and China need to take steps - mostly individually, sometimes together - that will have the mutually beneficial effect of supporting and sustaining economic growth.

The developing countries must be able to take a more active part in trade negotiations, through technical assistance and support from the developed countries.

We aren't leveraging this great economic engine, the strongest economy in the world. And yet we have this totally weak response. We import $500 billion a year more in products than we export.

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

The United States is a nation located in the global economy, and we get enormous, enormous benefits from dealing with foreigners.

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

The trade deficit is the capital surplus and don't ever think of having a capital surplus as being a bad thing for our country.

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

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

Japan rose from the ashes of World War II as a 'trading state,' the model for export-led growth. It is not clear that the old export model of growth will be sustainable in a more 'balanced' global economy that does not rely so heavily on the U.S. consumer.

We are determined that our nation shall cease to be a burden on other countries but shall contribute positively to world prosperity, while observing fully the fair trade practices in international commerce.

The leaders of the world's largest economies agreed during the November 2008 G20 summit not to create barriers hindering global trade and capital flows. Russia shares these principles.

Don't make such a big deal out of this trade deficit…. In the United States you cannot find anybody to produce such labor-intensive products and it will be more expensive if you were to import such products from other countries and the regions than China. Only China is in the best position to produce such products, and this is also beneficial to China because this has provided job opportunities to China.

Wealthy nations cannot grow richer unless they have customers beyond their border.

In order to have the benefits of free trade, you must have full employment in the trading countries.

The key to our economic prosperity depends on increasing our contacts with Asian traders.

In the long run, trade works for America.

Trade never balances. It hasn’t since 1776.

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.

Trade creates jobs.

Increased trade is crucial to a balanced plan for stimulating growth and job creation on both sides of the Atlantic.

I do believe that international trade agreements benefit both nations, always.