Economic Cooperation Quotes

Solidarity and competitiveness are the two sides of a European coin.

Economic diseases are highly communicable. It follows, therefore, that the economic health of every country is a proper matter of concern to all its neighbors, near and distant. Only through a dynamic and a soundly expanding world economy can the living standards of individual nations be advanced to levels which will permit a full realization of our hopes for the future.

The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another.

Our diaspora provides a platform for a stronger relationship between India and ASEAN countries.

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

As President Obama clearly said just a few months ago, China must play by the international rules, the international trading system from which they've benefited so much.

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.

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

Russia is Germany's most important neighbor in the East, and it will remain so.

I am very friendly with the people of India, and corporates are also a part of that.

As Foreign Minister, I worked to strengthen the cooperation with Israel, and now, as Chancellor, I have more opportunities do this.

America's relations with complex Middle Eastern states such as Egypt are often difficult.

If the Chinese can't buy U.S. products, they'll buy them from European countries and then develop stronger economic ties with France and Germany and perhaps side more with those countries when international issues flare up.

I have learned some core lessons along the way. Among the most important, I have become a firm believer that a strong geopolitical relationship can be born out of a strong economic relationship, which often begins with trade.

The Chinese go around with lollipops in their pockets. They have aid. They have friendship deals. They build you a Prime Minister's office or President's office or Parliament House or Foreign Ministry. For them, trade is an extension of their foreign policy.

America needs Pakistan more than Pakistan needs America…. Pakistan is the pivot of the world, the frontier upon which the future of the world revolves

Europe will be the most important economic power in the world.

There are roughly 22,000 Palestinians working side by side with what you call settlers in factories and malls in the West Bank. If you work together, you start understanding each other.

I want to go get trade agreements because if America walls itself up, if we address sort of an economic fortress America, we will lose.

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

I want to stay in the European Union which is the best trade deal we could possibly have, but we need to call out racism.

We cannot open our markets to countries that do not open their markets to us.

Trade is the key to the economic outlook in Britain and the E.U. Many corporate chieftains joined large bank CEOs and the fearmongering IMF to suggest that the E.U. will deal harshly with Britain if it leaves and stop all trade. That's mutually assured destruction - MAD.

There are so many problems in the E.U. that several countries are warming up to the idea that after the single currency, a deeper integration could also be created.

What we should be doing in the EU as a whole is more economic integration in the single market, rather than less.