Robert Mundell 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.

A global economy requires a global currency.

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

We have the EURO as a currency, which means a lot. It has not just stabilized the situation in Kosovo politically and economically, but also facilitated the direct contact that we have with Europe.

I was quite ready to accept certain restrictions on the United States. After all, there was a great dollar shortage. It was quite clear that the more prosperous Europe became, the more business there would be in the United States.

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.

Nothing is more vital to our supremacy as a nation and to the beneficent purposes of our Government than a sound and stable currency.

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

In a global marketplace with its increased insecurities and - indeed often - volatility and instability, national economic stability is at a premium, the precondition for all we can achieve, and no nation can secure the high levels of sustainable investment it needs without both monetary and fiscal stability together.

Nations with a common currency never went to war against each other. A common currency is more than the money you pay with.

Countries themselves need to do everything possible to remain in the euro zone.

The whole idea of having a free trade area when you have gyrating exchange rates doesn't make sense at all. It just spoils the effect of any kind of free trade agreement.

The more there is a European solution to a theoretical, but possible, problem in the markets, the less we will have to talk about an I.M.F. solution.

Our membership of the euro is a guarantee of monetary stability and creates the right conditions for sustainable growth. Our membership of the euro is the only choice.

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.

Low and stable inflation in many countries is an important accomplishment that will continue to bring significant benefits.

The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability.

The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany.

Greece has given Europe the opportunity to fix a defect in the euro zone, that is the fact that we did not have a fiscal union. Now steps have been taken to begin that process. And there is more solidarity from nation to nation, and that is a good thing. That has been Greece's gift to Europe.

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.

I can confirm that Poland should become a eurozone country, and not just because of the treaties that have been signed, but because I consider it of strategic interest both for Poland and the E.U.

Well, I think the global economy is in the position for continuing good growth with inflation well in check.

But I would bet that the euro continues to exist and that its importance as a global currency will likely increase.

Not even a superpower can hold onto its economic sovereignty if it fails to get its fiscal house in order, and no one needs a well-regulated international economic order more than the United States.