Jo Ann Emerson Quotes

Whatever the scenario, the dynamism of developing nations, their demographics and competitive power are great sources for superiority.

China has, without doubt, become an economic superpower.

That is what has happened to the United States in the international economic scene. We have deteriorated into a debtor status so that we are now dependent upon the kindness of strangers. That is not where the world's leading power should find itself.

If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.

Unless we rise to the challenge, instead of American youth being able to live the American dream, the Chinese will fulfill their dream of overtaking America.

Sometime in the future - 25, 50, 75 years hence - what will the situation be like then? By that time the Chinese will have the capability of delivery too.

When I came to the Senate in 1997, the world was being redefined by forces no single country controlled or understood. The implosion of the Soviet Union and a historic diffusion of economic and geopolitical power created new influences and established new global power centers - and new threats.

U.S. companies rely on the European market for more than half of their global foreign profits.

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

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.

China and India are the success stories; rapid growth in large countries is an engine that can make a colossal dent in world poverty.

Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself.

The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain - are in the middle class.

The reality is that nearly 80 percent of the world's purchasing power lies outside the United States, and if we don't tap those markets, others will.

We're living through the twilight of American economic dominance.

What people recognize is that there's a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of China, the rise of India, the rise of the Soviet Union and our loss militarily going forward.

With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers.

This [Asia, Australia & New Zealand] is going to be the world't largest market. If we're not there setting the rules, then somebody else is.

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

We don’t like to call ourselves an empire but in the process of becoming the richest country the world has ever known we have dominated many other people.

In the economic competition, in the technological competition, we are competitors; we are not allies.

… great contest for commercial supremacy.

A nation is a superpower not just because of its military strength.

Probably the biggest thing about the shaping of our future is that it won’t be shaped in the United States.

America has been dominant in the last 200 years, China has been dominant in 1800 of the last 2000 years.