Bill Clinton Quotes

The best way to help countries around the world is to help them with trade.

Our system will prevail but it must be tested by talk and trade.

More and more we must build our foreign policy around commerce.

National security must include international economics as it became clear that the U. S. economy was powerfully affective by economic policies in dozens of other countries.

[N]o real leader can aspire to champion both the logic and the morality of free trade without confronting the practice that undermines both: currency manipulation.

I don't know how to handle all the trade talks.

The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our level of prosperity, it is time for them to catch up to our level of openness.

I don't expect the U.S. and China to get into a trade war simply because I think there are good people on both sides who realize that that's not in either economy's interest.

China has concluded that trade trumps all.

So in terms of the global economic footprint, let's just say China within the next decade and a bit is likely to emerge as the world's largest economy. Obviously its foreign policy and security policy footprint increases and that creates both challenges and opportunities for us all.

A key U.S. initiative in this trade war must be to develop reliable trading partners in the world.

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

Of what do we complain? A total incapacity, produced by the foreign policy, to purchase, at any price, necessary foreign objects of consumption.

Isolationism has been a calamity.

Our nation has moved from the cold war to the trade war.

Geo-economics may replace geo-politics as the driving force in international relations.

Dollar Diplomacy

American policymakers have a choice to make in trade relations with China. They can side with the importers and outsourcers, and stand by passively as China takes advantage of its WTO membership and access to the U.S. market, abusing its own workers and artificially undervaluing its currency in order to undercut American workers and domestic manufacturers. Or they can take a stand for American jobs and act now to ensure that China plays fair in the global economy.

Because of the economic crisis, China and the United States are bound together. This is a totally new phenomenon, and nobody will fight for ideology anymore. It’s all about business.

Mexican exports worldwide benefit the U.S. economy because of their high percentage of U. S. content.

Engaging the foreign state in trade agreements and concessions with the intent of enhancing moderate social elements will concomitantly strengthen the economic and military power of the challenger.

In an interdependent world …, the idea that American can have of the blessings of globalization but none of the burdens doesn’t add up.

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

The most important relationship in the world is the U. S. - China relationship.

If the United States disengages from many issues confronting the international community it will be replaced.