Robert E. Rubin Quotes

The European conflict shall not be continued by economic war after the military operations have ceased. British policy shall be directed toward promoting free commercial intercourse between all nations …

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.

The people who are banking on Oriental trade are bound to be disappointed. The United States cannot compete with foreign countries until we can manufacture products at a lower cost, which means cheaper labor

Experience has shown that the trade of the East is the key to national wealth and influence.

Too much of British business and industry feels similarly secure in the warm embrace of the European single market and is failing to recognise that today's great export opportunities lie in the developing world, particularly in Asia.

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

The only way in which a European union, embracing Britain but excluding eastern Europe, could become economically healthy would be develop the closest sort of trading relationships either with this hemisphere or with Africa.

Free trade would place our farmers and workers in competition with peasant and sweated labor products.

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

Trade agreements are what you make of them.

Growth at home depends on growth abroad.

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

Can you have a free trade agreement with a country that isn't free?

U. S. troops keep European markets open to us. If those troops weren't there, those markets would probably be more difficult to access.

The largest annual U.S. trade deficits since 1980 have been accompanied by the largest annual job-creation numbers in recent memory. The reason is simple: stronger economies tend to have stronger currencies, and the increased economic activities in these stronger economies and exchange-rate differentials lead inevitably to trade deficits

It must become a nation of free traders, which would throw open its ports to the world, and prove to European nations that the colonial system of restriction and monopoly was founded on delusion

China has become the export destination of preference for most of the world.

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

The farmers in America who are raising wheat and beef and cotton, and the great multitudes engaged in manufacture, depend for the rewards of their labor largely upon the orderly continuance of purchase, consumption and payment by the people of other countries. It would be a real misfortune to the American breakfast table if Brazil ceased to produce coffee and Cuba ceased to produce sugar and China ceased to produce tea.

[Foreign] Trade is necessary to modern comfort and prosperity.

Companies like yours have got to do business with Japan [because] that country must be economically sound.

More than 95 percent of the world’s customers live outside the borders of the United States.

A trade war between the U.S. and China would hurt both countries, but there is reason to believe that the U.S. has more to lose. Today, 80% of global trade comprises international supply chains,” she writes. “Declining trade costs have allowed firms to splinter their production lines geographically, with goods processed and value added in multiple countries along the chain. If China threw a handful of sand in the gears of these chains, it could disrupt entire production networks, doing serious damage to the U.S….

We all have to think about the emerging markets.