Stephen Harper Quotes

Back in those days, in the fifties and sixties, countries had balance of payment's deficits or surpluses, those were reflected much more than today in movements of reserves among countries.

The rest of the world needs the US economy and financial system to recover in order for it to revive. We remain at the center of global economic activity with financial and trade ties to every region of the globe.

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

If you look at national economies today, for example, the American economy, the European economy, the Indians, the Chinese, we're all tied together. If one of them sinks, the rest are going to sink with them and if one floats, the rest are lifted up. I find that very interesting.

There is no way out of playing by the rules of the international economy if you wish to be a part of it.

We've gone through rounds of tax cutting and rounds of tax increases in modern U.S. history. We haven't really had a big igniting of a trade war belligerence since the Depression era, and that's not an era that we want to repeat.

A single economy makes the constant adjustments necessary to facilitate trade impossible.

We got into a recession because the global economy went into the recession and we're a big exporting nation.

I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.

There's a lot of companies that profit from a weak dollar.

For the only way in which a durable peace can be created is by world-wide restoration of economic activity and international trade.

Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for the benefit of the country.

Since our economy is closely allied with that of foreign countries, not one of us can be indifferent to what consequences these disturbances can have at home and abroad.

We need the Chinese to - you know, spend more, save less - consume more and not be so focused on exports. There are big changes we need in the world.

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.

We are particularly poor at the open economy issues.

In order to address world economic imbalances, countries around the world should make joint efforts to adjust their economic structure.

I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world.

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.

All Nations endeavor to get the [foreign] Exchange as much as they can on their side.

[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.

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

In general, global economic growth supports Russian economy.

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

When a population saves a lot, the funds are invested outside the country as well as inside. If the Japanese invest in the United States, it pushes their exchange rate down and makes their manufacturing more competitive.