Toshihiko Fukui Quotes

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

The largest annual U.S. trade deficits since 1980 have been accompanied by the largest annual job-creation numbers in recent memory. The reason is simple: stronger economies tend to have stronger currencies, and the increased economic activities in these stronger economies and exchange-rate differentials lead inevitably to trade deficits

International borders are as uninteresting to large business as the equator.

We all have to think about the emerging markets.

Our trade opens to all the world.

Money is just something to be circulated.

I think bolstering free trade is a boon to the dollar.

We have to remember we're in a global economy. The purpose of fiscal stimulus is not simply to sustain activity in our national economies, but to help the global economy as well, and that's why it's so critical that measures in those packages avoid anything that smacks of protectionism.

There's a lot of companies that profit from a weak dollar.

The benefits from a world currency would be enormous.

It's a tough problem that a company faces once they branch out beyond one set of offices in California into that big bad world out there.

U.S. exports to China have more than quintupled since China entered the WTO and have grown more quickly than imports. In fact, China is America's fastest-growing export market.

Unless the trade deficit shrinks, the combination of the trade deficit and the interest and dividend payments to foreigners will grow ever more rapidly.

But I think we need the international market.

The leaders of the world's largest economies agreed during the November 2008 G20 summit not to create barriers hindering global trade and capital flows. Russia shares these principles.

In the U.S., we didn't have scale, and without scale, it's difficult to operate.

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.

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.

Do all that … the increase of trade should require.

Surging global trade creates new security risks that will require new global safeguards.

The need to promote the adoption of a global currency as a vital element in the integration of the global economy is self-evident.

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

We are a trading nation, and we are trading with Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Ireland.

New Zealand obviously is fully integrated into the global economy.

We are going to continue to run a business, and we are going to continue to meet the supply and demand that's out there.