Lee Hsien Loong Quotes

The U.S. and China need to take steps - mostly individually, sometimes together - that will have the mutually beneficial effect of supporting and sustaining economic growth.

I fully support global commerce.

Globalization has very materially improved the standard of living in the Unitied States... as it has for those countries that have chosen to operate with free trade…. Although none of us likes our competitors, competition has greatly improved our standard of living.

[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.

We need fair and free trade.

You must stand up for multilateralism. You must make trade great again.

How can we have 'freer' free trade? Let's get real, for God's sake.

Protectionism has never been an answer, will never be an answer. We need trade. We need trade agreements worldwide.

We are beginning to see the benefits of global consolidation.

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.

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

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

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

If you interview world leaders, everybody will say they are for free trade. But what they mean by it and what they do when they say they are pro free trade, you have to watch and see.

We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.

I want to go get trade agreements because if America walls itself up, if we address sort of an economic fortress America, we will lose.

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.

Twenty-seven member states cannot even organise a takeaway curry, let alone what they are going to do on free trade deals with the rest of the world.

Our engagement through international economics, trade, these trade agreements, is vital and is linked to our national security. This is a lesson we learned from the '30s, it is a lesson we learned post-World War II, and it plays to our strengths.

It's important to focus on how we can strengthen international trade.

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

The fact is that co-operation between independent countries - to our mutual advantage - is the way of the modern world.

President Obama and I recognize the importance of strong economic engagement for the continued growth of both the Philippines and the United States.

The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations.

The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to adapt to them.