Peggy Johnson Quotes

Emerging markets are hugely important.

I call America our emerging market. They find it very amusing when I said that.

Shaping the future is what drives me. Since I left politics, I'm very much interested in emerging markets.

China, with its large emerging middle class, is among the big beneficiaries of globalization.

China is a BRIC country. BRIC country means Brazil, Russia, India and China. This emerging economy really is helping the revival of the world economy.

We see China as a large market opportunity with similar cyclical economic cycles that occur throughout every economy.

Nonetheless, the developing countries must be able to reap the benefits of international trade.

Filipino businessmen must have the ability to compete freely in the global economy.

The global realignment is accelerating the migration of growth and wealth dynamics from the industrial world to the larger emerging economies.

Africa needs access to markets.

Booming cities, and the provinces and states in which they are located, are driving forces in economic growth today. Consequently, they constitute the new frontier in America's international economic policy.

Looking beyond the emerging markets, it is important not to lose sight of the growth opportunities that exist in the developed regions.

Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.

The basic idea was that if a country would put its economy as an integrated piece of the world system, that it would benefit from that with economic growth. I concur with that basic view.

The developing countries must be able to take a more active part in trade negotiations, through technical assistance and support from the developed countries.

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

The major economies are not American anymore. They are Asian and South American.

China should be another United States from an economic standpoint. Beijing should be another Silicon Valley.

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.

Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness - or Europe will fetch up in a no-man's land between the rising economies of Asia and market-driven North America.

When the developed grow fast, the developing grow fast, and when the developed slow down, the developing slow down.

The reality is that nearly 80 percent of the world's purchasing power lies outside the United States, and if we don't tap those markets, others will.

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

The key to our economic prosperity depends on increasing our contacts with Asian traders.

Economic cooperation makes the American people and others around the world more prosperous and secure.