James A. Garfield Quotes

So the American economy needs the world, and the world needs the American economy.

The increase of riches and commerce and commerce in any one nation, instead of hurting, commonly promotes the riches and commerce of all its neighbors.

We're so interdependent, and what one country does is such an important part of what happens in the global economy.

The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.

If you look at national economies today, for example, the American economy, the European economy, the Indians, the Chinese, we're all tied together. If one of them sinks, the rest are going to sink with them and if one floats, the rest are lifted up. I find that very interesting.

Commercial interests survive longer than strategic interests. When countries do business together, they stay together.

Because of the economic crisis, China and the United States are bound together. This is a totally new phenomenon, and nobody will fight for ideology anymore. It’s all about business.

Whichever country we are talking to, we are concerned with economic cooperation, how to deepen our mutual dependence, how to find new areas of win-win.

The U.S. - E.U. economic relationship dwarfs America's economic ties with China.

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.

We can't return to the 19th century, draw up our drawbridges and say, we don't have anything to do with each other, Germany will not work with the Netherlands, the UK will not work with France. That's ludicrous. We are condemned to work with each other.

The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets.

Nor in truth, can Forreign Trade subsist without the Home Trade, both being connected together.

Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade.

As economic globalization gathers momentum, China and the United States have become highly interdependent economically. Such economic relations would not enjoy sustained, rapid growth if they were not based on mutual benefit or if they failed to deliver great benefits to the United States.

The world is a place that is so interconnected that what happens in another part of the world will impact us.

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.

We're part of a global economy whether we like it or not.

No interest can divide two peoples connected only over vast tracts of sea; the relations of commerce will form a chain which, if not eternal, will be of long duration.

I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade of each becomes more valuable to the other.

For weal or for woe, the peoples of mankind are knit together far closer than ever before..

[Foreign] Trade is necessary to modern comfort and prosperity.

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.

Companies like yours have got to do business with Japan [because] that country must be economically sound.

Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.