Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Quotes

America is very important economically. It's certainly, by far, the most important country in the world.

China became an economic power with few equals. By 2010 China gad overtaken Japan as the world’s second largest economy in terms of GDP, China’s transformation consistently drew one ideas beyond it shores.

We are in a global economy whether we like it or not. And we believe - I believe - that America should be at the table writing the rules of the global economy instead of China.

Now, many Americans fear that China might grow too strong ... I'm more worried that America might be getting too weak. It's not bad for the United States if other nations have a strong economy. One fewer hungry-mouthed country wanting us to take care of it and its people is great news. If they have money, maybe they will buy the things we innovate and make.

With our trade deals we are always second. You can pick any country and they're eating our lunch and making us look bad and so we're going to change that.

If you put all the European countries together, we are the biggest economy in the world.

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

All Nations endeavor to get the [foreign] Exchange as much as they can on their side.

For the first time since the 15th century, China is becoming a major economic power.

The U.S. and Japan are scared of us catching up, and they will do anything to contain China's development …

The biggest challenge is clearly China, in the years 2035 and beyond. I mean, the size of the country, its economy, and everything - they're - it is a big strategic competitor for the entire Department of Defense and country.

All Americans should be concerned about the potential for China to replace the United States as the most important economy in the world.

Provided that the City of London remains, as it is at present, the clearing-house of the world, any other nation may be its workshop.

You have companies over in different countries where they devalue their currency and they make it impossible for American companies to compete.

In democratic countries, the most important private organizations are economic. Unlike secret societies, they are able to exercise their terrorism without illegality, since they do not threaten to kill their enemies, but only to starve them.

Japan became an imperialist country in many ways, but that was much later, after it had already made big progress. I don’t think Japan’s wealth was based on exploiting China. Japan’s wealth was based on its expansion in international trade.

The rapid rise of the People's Republic of China as a military and economic power is challenging the status quo.

America's in deep trouble. We don't know what we're doing when it comes to devaluations and all of these countries all over the world, especially China. They're the best, the best ever at it. What they're doing to us is a very, very sad thing.

China is very important. The future growth of China, China's influence is bound to rise.

I've been all over the world. I've dealt with foreign countries. I've done very well, as an example, tremendously well dealing with China and dealing with so many of the countries that are just ripping America. They are just taking advantage of us like nobody's ever seen before.

Whoever controls the flow of Persian Gulf oil has a stranglehold not only on our economy but also on the other countries of the world as well.

China is now expected to surpass Japan as the 2nd richest country in the world. They could become the richest, but that's only if we pay them the money we owe them, and that's not going to happen.

Putin is going to be considering the United States his number one enemy no matter who our president is - and no matter who's elected, that isn't going to change. I think Putin is loving the media saying he's got all this power, 'cause they're a Third World country outside of their military.

We have to make sure America writes the rules of the global economy, and we should do it today while our economy is in the position of global strength, because if we don't write the rules for trade around the world, guess what: China will.

America is stronger than Russia. Our economy is 16 times larger than the Russian economy.