Jakaya Kikwete Quotes

Openness has been vital to Asia's fast growth in the past and it will continue to be crucial for the area's further development.

Serbia is open for business.

Canada is open for business.

I know the value and significance of trading opportunities and have seen myself from Americas to the Far East the power of trade and open markets.

Trade is the all-but-forgotten weapon in the battle against poverty, but it can provide more help to the poor than aid can.

We seek to move from aid to trade.

We have neglected industry and commerce just as we have neglected every other opportunity of progress.

The biggest single thing that has lifted people out of poverty is free trade.

I believe that trade is essential for economic growth and development around the world, but I also believe that trade is imperfect.

Opening markets abroad through trade agreements is especially important for American small businesses and manufacturers to enhance growth and job creation.

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

Through trade reforms, Latin American countries can boost their competitiveness in markets for goods and services.

Through the SITA initiative, we are building bridges between India and East Africa by taking Indian companies to these countries to see with their own eyes what the opportunities are.

Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.

While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.

Booming cities, and the provinces and states in which they are located, are driving forces in economic growth today. Consequently, they constitute the new frontier in America's international economic policy.

There is no good reason for our cattle producers to have such limited market access. Our beef is the best in the world, and we need to be allowed to reach global markets.

I want to initiate a bilateral agenda that helps Mexico and the U.S. together compete with the world better, especially with the economies of Asia and the Pacific.

And one of our points of continuing conversation with our trading partners is the urgency of their taking steps to remove barriers to their improved growth performance.

Free trade has been one of the tenets of the modern Mexican economy, and it's through competition and free trade that we will continue to advance.

Free trade, far from protectionism, is the path that we should take to make Latin America a thriving actor in the global economy.

This is my first visit to Africa, a region where President Bush has voiced a deep passion for fostering and encouraging economic development, investment and trade.

Haiti is open for business!

The absence of significant development aid has only increased the importance of trade for Central America's future.

I am going to be announcing today that we will have a business delegation come to this country sometime in the future where we will bring businesses from America to Morocco to show them the vast business opportunities here.