Oscar Munoz Quotes

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

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

We should be doing more business with China. We should be better connected to the Chinese economy.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

China is not looking for a trade surplus but wants to import more French goods.

But I think we need the international market.

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

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here.

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.

I was quite ready to accept certain restrictions on the United States. After all, there was a great dollar shortage. It was quite clear that the more prosperous Europe became, the more business there would be in the United States.

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

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.

Growth at home depends on growth abroad.

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

The whole experience of the last 20 years of government trading in commodities, credit and shipping has demonstrated that it is alive with international friction and threats to peace …. The long view should be to restore international trade to free enterprise.

When you lower trade barriers and level the playing field, you create a mutual pool of wealth.

In the long run, trade works for America.

[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.