Keir Starmer Quotes

The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.

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.

What is the greatest of our common obligations? It is Imperial defense. What is the greatest of our common interests? It is Imperial trade.

We need to remind ourselves that Europe will be our biggest trading partner for the next several decades and probably beyond, so getting the deal with Europe right should be our primary focus.

Maintaining a positive working relationship with Mexico's leadership will also be crucial to increasing communication and trade. I plan to personally maintain those relationships.

I do not doubt that there are many countries that will wish to trade with the U.K. post-Brexit, but understandably they will wait to see what the U.K.'s ultimate relationship with Europe will be.

India's difficulties in negotiating an FTA with both the ASEAN and E.U. are a reminder of the importance of multilateralism.

There is not a single country in the world that is not interested in doing business with China. And no one is seriously concerned about human rights. But Africans are criticized for wanting to do business with China.

The E.U. imports more agricultural goods from developing countries around the world than does the U.S., Canada and Japan, combined.

Russia and China, when they were communist-like adversaries, they didn't participate. They're participating now in the world with us. They're trading monetary instruments. We're buying and selling goods back and forth, trading oil and so forth.

To be influential in tomorrow's world, to defend our values and our development model, France needs Europe and Europe needs France.

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

For the European Union, Russia is as important politically and economically as China is to the U.S.

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

The adult way to run a business is to run it more like a country. They have disputes, yet they've actually been able to have huge trade with each other. They're not sending bombs at each other.

A key U.S. initiative in this trade war must be to develop reliable trading partners in the world.

The more we can open the border [with the US] the more we can develop.

I would say to every nation on earth, by treaty, your people shall trade freely with us, and ours with you ...

U. S. [world] leadership has endured, in part because American principles are embedded in the international economic framework.

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

When E.U. governments are able to agree on political and economic policies, they will remain a superpower to influence the Americans, the Russians, Indians and Chinese over the coming decades. Britain on its own would resume the decline which continued through most of the 20th century.

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

I want us to move as quickly as we can towards a free trade deal between the U.K. and the U.S.A. that would be good for both of us. That would also send a signal to the European Union that there's a bigger world outside of the European Union, and Britain can manage just nicely.

Whichever country we are talking to, we are concerned with economic cooperation, how to deepen our mutual dependence, how to find new areas of win-win.