Stephen Harper Quotes

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

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.

International economic cooperation has delivered benefits to the United States and other countries that would have been impossible to attain otherwise.

We cannot talk about trade without talking about China.

The North American Free Trade Agreement marked a fundamental change in the global trade scheme.

The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states.

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.

The best way to help countries around the world is to help them with trade.

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

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

Increased trade is crucial to a balanced plan for stimulating growth and job creation on both sides of the Atlantic.

The United States is a nation located in the global economy, and we get enormous, enormous benefits from dealing with foreigners.

What we should do is promote trade in the world, not try to stifle it.

Britain has always been at its most successful when it's a trading nation.

Trade is critical to us all - it ensures we have what we need to live, that the NHS gets the equipment it needs to save lives, and that developing countries can prosper.

Trade and globalization are here to stay.

Our business thrives on free and open global trade.

It's important to focus on how we can strengthen international trade.

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

Mountains and oceans do not furnish any impassable barrier to the extension of trade.

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

The U.S. and China need to take steps - mostly individually, sometimes together - that will have the mutually beneficial effect of supporting and sustaining economic growth.

Our trade opens to all the world.

Iowans do understand the importance of breaking down barriers and increasing international trade.

Now, what produces a want of demand? A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.