Bill Clinton Quotes

Growth at home depends on growth abroad.

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

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

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

Britain has always been at its most successful when it's a trading nation.

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

Considering our luxury, and our great expense of foreign wares here at home, we could not have grown rich without other dealings in the world.

Trade never balances. It hasn’t since 1776.

The largest annual U.S. trade deficits since 1980 have been accompanied by the largest annual job-creation numbers in recent memory. The reason is simple: stronger economies tend to have stronger currencies, and the increased economic activities in these stronger economies and exchange-rate differentials lead inevitably to trade deficits

China has become the export destination of preference for most of the world.

The farmers in America who are raising wheat and beef and cotton, and the great multitudes engaged in manufacture, depend for the rewards of their labor largely upon the orderly continuance of purchase, consumption and payment by the people of other countries. It would be a real misfortune to the American breakfast table if Brazil ceased to produce coffee and Cuba ceased to produce sugar and China ceased to produce tea.

[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.

It so happens that because all the economies are strongly inter-connected and aggregated, there is trade that is happening not just from China to the rest of the world, but from the rest of the world to China as well, and that is going to continue.

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

China is not looking for a trade surplus but wants to import more French goods.

But I think we need the international market.

Because I come from a place like Jamaica, which is a small, open economy, I viscerally get the importance of the global economy.

The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets.

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

The popular notion is that imports are bad and exports are good.

When you lower trade barriers and level the playing field, you create a mutual pool of wealth.

May our exports be so great, and our imports so small, that the balance of trade may be in our favor.

We are the greatest trading country in the world because we have the greatest exportation of the growth and product of our land and of the manufacture and labor of our people; and the greatest importation and consumption of the growth, product, and manufactures of other countries from abroad, of any nation in the world.