Jose Manuel Barroso Quotes

The good thing about the IMF is there is no European politics involved.

The IMF acts on the mandate of the international community.

The IMF is set up to deal with liquidity crises.

The stability of global financial markets is a public good. If governments fail to protect this public good, then those who suffer are the working people of the world whose jobs, whose homes, and whose standard of living depends on it.

By the way, the European Union Member States together - even the euro area Member States together - are by far the biggest contributors to the IMF.

The Federal Reserve places great importance on our relations with the Bundesbank. Few such relationships have been as important, over the decades, in promoting financial stability and prosperity around the world.

Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling, in hosting the G20 summit and in the budget, must display the same boldness in tackling the instability at home that they do in promoting a worldwide answer to the global meltdown.

The more there is a European solution to a theoretical, but possible, problem in the markets, the less we will have to talk about an I.M.F. solution.

As an economist specializing in the global economy, international trade and debt, I have spent most of my career helping others make big decisions - prime ministers, presidents and chief executives - and so I'm all too aware of the risks and dangers of poor choices in the public as well as the private sphere.

The International Monetary Fund is the doctor to sick economies.

… international confidence is the foundation stone of international credit, and international credit is essential to international trade.

The prestige of the international financial institutions rates less than zero.

In general, global economic growth supports Russian economy.

The job of the Central Bank is to worry.

There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth.

I started out in public service in 1998 after the Asian financial crisis of '97.

Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.

I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis.

I hope that the United States would cooperate with the partners to reduce its debt. The debt is a problem. The debt is with you, but unfortunately, the debt is not only with you but with us and with the rest of the world because we all, one way or another, are dependent on the dollar.

It is the policy of the federal government to use all resources at its disposal to make our financial system stronger.

The realities of the modern global economy require government to play a substantial role in ensuring the national and economic security of the people.

I've lived to see key parts of my research absorbed in textbooks and in central banks around the world. And some finance ministries, too.

Our economy is increasingly dependent on the success and integrity of the financial markets.

There are still deep-seated structural problems that threaten the economic balance in the world: Between the United States and China, for example, but also within Europe. We have taken a few steps toward taming the financial markets, but we haven't come nearly far enough to rule out a repetition of the crisis.

You know, I think of the global economy as an inverted triangle, resting on the shoulders of the American consumer. And if the American consumer cannot have enough disposable income in order to maintain a standard of living that creates more opportunities generation after generation, that's bad for everybody.