Lisa Murkowski Quotes

The key to our economic prosperity depends on increasing our contacts with Asian traders.

But Australia faces additional regional and global challenges also crucial to our nation's future - climate change, questions of energy and food security, the rise of China and the rise of India. And we need a strong system of global and regional relationships and institutions to underpin stability.

We are considering various ways of making use of our oil and gas downstream industries. This is to be complemented with the import of oil and gas from other sources as raw materials.

Caterpillar exported $20 billion of goods in 2011, all by American hands and American workers, to all over the world. In order to do that, we have to create jobs in all those countries that we export to, to be able to sell there.

Expressing the thoughts of my comrades, I suggested, among other means, the organization of an international information service on inventories, on production, and on the needs of the various countries for raw materials.

Nonetheless, the developing countries must be able to reap the benefits of international trade.

The United States cannot achieve significant economic growth without expanding exports.

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.

The U.K. wants and needs closer trading partnerships with African nations - and Africa needs much more capital.

America's trade policy has an enormous impact on the economic well-being of the American people and the strategic interests of the United States.

When we can export American energy to markets around the world, the president will also be able to use it as an important tool to increase our global leadership and influence, advancing our global agenda and helping to keep our citizens safe.

As a continent, I think there are opportunities for Asia to accept imports of Wyoming coal.

India has large proven reserves of gas that remain unexploited.

It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available to the Labor Government, but the oil revenues were just coming in when Labor fell in '79.

Because I come from a place like Jamaica, which is a small, open economy, I viscerally get the importance of the global economy.

We are determined that our nation shall cease to be a burden on other countries but shall contribute positively to world prosperity, while observing fully the fair trade practices in international commerce.

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

I think every country has to recognize its competitive advantage and liberate its strengths to be a partner in global trade, and that's the only way you can survive and succeed.

I am convinced that China needs to be a strong trading partner with the United States long term.

Free trade is very important if we respect equality among nations.

Countries are effectively paid deference in direct and indirect ways if they're huge oil suppliers.

Most of the well-developed world - Australia, Western Europe - they develop their resources base, they inventory it, they develop it, and they view it as a good source of jobs and revenue. We are a country that for too long has taken affordable energy for granted.

India will, in the next two decades become a major power and if it fails to do that external pressures will break her up

Wealthy nations cannot grow richer unless they have customers beyond their border.

Our international trade relations, though vastly important, are in point of time and necessity, secondary to the establishment of a sound national economy. I favor as a practical policy the putting of first things first.