Stephen Harper Quotes

In a global economy where our economies and supply chains are deeply integrated, it's not even possible.

I think essentially if you look at British public debate around the issues of our interconnectedness with the global economy you do not find a ready audience, of any large scale, for pulling up the shutters.

I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremost we're part of the global economy.

The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations.

I want a trade that is not trickle-down trade, but trade that recognizes we're in a global economy.

A truly global economy, as opposed to the multinational economy of the recent past, will require concessions of national power ... that seemed impossible a few years ago and which even now we can but partly imagine.

Russia exists in the context of open global economy and is a part of it

There are legitimate concerns and anxieties that the forces of globalisation are leaving too many people behind - and we have to take those concerns seriously and address them. But the answer isn't to turn inward and embrace protectionism. We can't just walk away from trade.

We have benefited greatly from the globalization of the economy in the last 30 years.

People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money.

Globalization has produced a new of level of interdependence among us. The economy and multinational supply chains do not abide by political boundaries. A computer ordered in Brazil is designed in California and assembled in several other countries. Economic integration was the first strong evidence of a new era.

One by one, trade and investment barriers will continue to be swept away by globalization, like leaves on an autumn day…The new challenge will be less to regulate relations among national economies, than to establish the rules and structures of a transnational economy.

Local and national politics have now become irretrievably global because their economies are locked into the global system.

Trade never balances. It hasn’t since 1776.

Globalization punctures borders.

We’re not at the endpoint of globalization but somewhere near the starting line.

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.

Globalization can be a great opportunity.

We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.

In a regime of Free Trade and free economic intercourse it would be of little consequence that iron lay on one side of a political frontier, and labour, coal, and blast furnaces on the other. But as it is, men have devised ways to impoverish themselves and one another; and prefer collective animosities to individual happiness.

We had much freer trade in the 19th century. We have much less globalization now than we did then.

We live in a world community, and economic contact has partly contributed to that. It’s also the case that economic opportunity opened up by economic contact has helped to a great extent to reduce poverty in many parts of the world.

Globalization is a fact, because of technology, because of an integrated global supply chain, because of changes in transportation. And we're not going to be able to build a wall around that.

The world economy is not yet a community--not even an economic community...Yet the existence of the "global shopping center" is a fact that cannot be undone. The vision of an economy for all will not be forgotten again.