Christine Lagarde Quotes

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

[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.

We cannot talk about trade without talking about China.

The rest of the world really likes our stuff pretty well. It's just we buy so damn much of what they produce.

In a global economy where our economies and supply chains are deeply integrated, it's not even possible.

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

It's good for America when the rest of the world grows, because you can sell more to the rest of the world.

The farmers in America who are raising wheat and beef and cotton, and the great multitudes engaged in manufacture, depend for the rewards of their labor largely upon the orderly continuance of purchase, consumption and payment by the people of other countries. It would be a real misfortune to the American breakfast table if Brazil ceased to produce coffee and Cuba ceased to produce sugar and China ceased to produce tea.

New Zealand obviously is fully integrated into the global economy.

As to our trade and economic relations with China, they are growing more and more diverse each day, something we have worked on for a long time with our partners from China.

As I constantly remind Canadians, there isnt really a Canadian economy anymore. It is a global economy.

In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899)

We spend trillions of dollars to travel around the world, but it's in everybody's interest that we have a better framework, and not just for the United States but for the entire world, in which to operate and trade.

After all, China is our largest trading partner. As I said, country-wise, Russia trades the most with China. That is my first point.

Mountains and oceans do not furnish any impassable barrier to the extension of trade.

I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremost we're part of the global economy.

Our trade opens to all the world.

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

It is in all our interests that the arteries of global trade are kept free, open and running.

We have benefited greatly from the globalization of the economy in the last 30 years.

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

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

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

We're part of a global economy whether we like it or not.