Helmut Kohl Quotes

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

The single currency should allow the European Union, and therefore France, to balance its monetary strength with the United States. It should help us adjust to the development of China.

A common currency imposes on us a duty to cooperate more on policy.

I don't want to have one currency for all North America.

I think there are going to be more countries joining the euro.

Integration is the most important asset Europe has, and the key component to European integration is the euro.

The only way to have several currencies from divergent nations lumped together is if they are culturally close, such as Germany, the Netherlands and Austria. If they aren't, it simply can't continue to work.

A national currency, with the Euro as a common currency - that wouldn't bother me.

We're so interdependent, and what one country does is such an important part of what happens in the global economy.

I'm a firm believer in the monetary union.

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

We must stress that the euro has been beneficial to the European Union because, otherwise, in this context of international turmoil, every country would have to devalue their currencies.

If the Scottish people decide to opt for independence, it would not be a good idea for Scotland to maintain a very rigid link to the pound.

If we have a common currency, the main regulator for policy in the country is the fiscal policy.

The euro is a vital issue for Germany. There is no other country that derives as much benefit from the common domestic market and the monetary union as Germany.

The participation of our country in the eurozone is a guarantee for the country's monetary stability. It is a driver of financial prosperity.

The benefits from a world currency would be enormous.

I was sure we would never see the adoption of the Euro. Countries giving up their currencies for a common tender was, it seemed to me, completely out of tune with currency being a carrier of people's cultural identity, celebrating national heroes and events, as it had been for hundreds of years.

We've got to demonstrate why European unity and integration, our vast single market, our single currency, equip us with the strength to embrace globalization.

There are plenty of ways countries may come together without having a single currency.

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

Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.

The age of economic relations as the primary arena for interactions between states is already upon us.

I think we have a thriving economic engine between not only the U.S. and Mexico but the U.S. and many, many other countries.

The euro is a sickly premature infant, the result of an over-hasty monetary union.