Robert Gilpin Quotes

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.

There is no way out of playing by the rules of the international economy if you wish to be a part of it.

U. S. [world] leadership has endured, in part because American principles are embedded in the international economic framework.

I think globalization has been really good for America.

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.

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.

As I constantly remind Canadians, there isnt really a Canadian economy anymore. It is a global economy.

Globalization is now no longer an objective but an imperative, as markets open and geographic barriers become increasingly blurred and even irrelevant.

In this new world economy, national boundaries are increasingly becoming obsolete.

Take a look at NAFTA, one of the worst deals ever made by any country having to do with economic development. It's economic un development as far as America is concerned.

The political boundaries of nation-states are too narrow and constricted to define the scope and activities of modern business.

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

The nation that leads the clean energy economy will lead the global economy.

The ongoing internationalization of the economy is confronting the labor movement

Mexican exports worldwide benefit the U.S. economy because of their high percentage of U. S. content.

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.

The U. S. is not the Boss, not the Boss any longer.

We are only 5 percent of the world's population and 20 percent of the world's economy. We have to be able to trade in order to grow.

New Zealand obviously is fully integrated into the global economy.

Policymakers, elected and unelected, need to be ever-mindful that the U.S. economy does not exist in isolation.

There is no question that our security and prosperity will be increasingly tied to the Asia Pacific. If America doesn't set the rules of the road for trade in this region, other nations will.

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

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.

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

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.