Mac Thornberry Quotes

Our engagement through international economics, trade, these trade agreements, is vital and is linked to our national security. This is a lesson we learned from the '30s, it is a lesson we learned post-World War II, and it plays to our strengths.

Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries.

National security must include international economics as it became clear that the U. S. economy was powerfully affective by economic policies in dozens of other countries.

Geo-economics may replace geo-politics as the driving force in international relations.

We are in a global economy whether we like it or not. And we believe - I believe - that America should be at the table writing the rules of the global economy instead of China.

The U.S. will lose its status as the superpower of the world financial system. The world will become multi-polar.

I don't expect the U.S. and China to get into a trade war simply because I think there are good people on both sides who realize that that's not in either economy's interest.

We can pretend that China is not there. But China is there, and unless we put our economy on the right track, it is going to overwhelm us completely.

We're living through the twilight of American economic dominance.

Economic security is a very important part of foreign policy.

China's growth and stability is a vital issue for all nations.

A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.

A U.K. vote to exit the European Union could have significant economic repercussions.

The chief job of foreign policy today is helping to figure out the rules for the global economy and defending each nation's interests within it.

I think Obama and the economists around him have a very sophisticated understanding of both globalization and the technology revolution and the impact they're having on the world economy and they way they're creating these winner-take-all spirals.

Trade is part of our national security.

We cannot talk about trade without talking about China.

Real power in the modern world is determined by a nation's economic capabilities, not just the nuclear warheads it stores.

The bigger the world economy, the more powerful its smallest player.

Our light-speed, globally connected economy has led to the rise of a new super-elite that consists, to a notable degree, of first- and second-generation wealth.

If you look at it ideologically, I would say Brexit is not something that probably is good for the world.

If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.

If the E.U. allows itself to be priced out of the world economy, the next generation will not get jobs, living standards will decline, and the Union will lose the popular consent of the people of Europe.

People say free trade causes dislocation. In actual fact, it's the lowering of trade barriers that causes the dislocation.

We don't want to repeat the unintended consequences that surfaced following the NAFTA agreement.