Michael Crichton Quotes

There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.

As an American, you appreciate the importance of our security alliance, the importance of the economic ties between our two countries, and while I knew of the two bonds between our two people, until I came here, I didn't really appreciate how deep the people-to-people connections are between the American people and the Japanese people.

Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding.

I'm a great admirer of the Trump change of mind about China and making an ally out of China instead of screaming about their trade.

Trade accords had been a staple of the post-World War II world, providing a mechanism for economic growth, development, and association with friends and allies, and a means of reining in would-be adversaries who otherwise would have little incentive to act with restraint.

We need more and more engagement with China rather than isolating it more and more.

Iowans do understand the importance of breaking down barriers and increasing international trade.

Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family.

For decades, Japan has been a friend and reliable trading partner with the United States, and I anticipate that relationship will prosper.

To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world.

China and the U.S. have a very symbiotic relationship which will not decline any time soon. There are more shared interests as compared to shared differences and for this reason relations will continue to be good.

[Commenting on Japan:] Our destinies have become inseparable .... Our future together will have much to do with the future of the world.

I would rather have indissoluble ties of righteous trade promote international friendship than all the compacts ever written in the world.

Commerce is a teacher and a pacificator. It gives mankind knowledge one of another. Reciprocity of trade promotes reciprocity of friendship. Good trade insures good will. … and wherever we secure just and fair commercial relations with other nations, we are sure to have with them friendly political relations.

There must of course always be separate interests of different nations which their governments are bound to maintain, but there are also common interests in which all civilized nations share. These common interests arise from the interdependence of civilized peoples and they are a product of developing civilization.

Americans always see China through the looking glass, and I think it's about time - with technology and of the growing economic relationship between these two countries - I think it's natural and better for all of us to have a better understanding of each other.

I have learned some core lessons along the way. Among the most important, I have become a firm believer that a strong geopolitical relationship can be born out of a strong economic relationship, which often begins with trade.

There are no regions in the world as reciprocally integrated as Latin America and the Caribbean, and Europe.

Japan and Hawaii already have strong economic, cultural and education ties, and we intend to build upon those ties and relationships as we look toward the future.

Creating a structure for mutual prosperity requires lowering regional and transnational barriers to facilitate the flow of goods and promote people-to-people interactions.

China trading with its neighbours and building infrastructure brings only benefits.

I think that the world is going to remain a very interconnected place. I don't think there's any getting away from that. The Internet has brought us closer together. I think cross-border trade is going to continue to grow substantially. I think there may be certain trade agreements that can be renegotiated, one way or another.

A China that trades extensively with the U.S. and its Asian neighbors will think twice before it pursues any policy that would place those relationships at risk. Likewise, trade between India and Pakistan could contribute to the normalization of ties between these long-estranged neighbors.

Trade transcends party lines here in Washington, and it unifies stakeholders across the globe.

In the 1990s and the first decade of the 21st century, regionalism was seen as a building block of globalisation.