Charles A. Kupchan Quotes

Globalization has benefited middle-income less than either richer or poorer countries.

It's not our business for the United States to sort out the other fellow's economic problems. We've got enough of our own.

No nation, rich or poor, democratic or authoritarian, can escape the fundamental economic imperatives of the global market. No nation can escape its discipline. No nation can avoid its responsibility to do its part

Trade never balances. It hasn’t since 1776.

We have at last awakened to the realization that foreign and domestic trade are not in separate water-tight compartments--that they flow through the same pipes and seek a common level. We cannot live by ourselves, shut off from the balance of the world, without working harm to our economic system that would require many years for repair.

We do not wish to open your ports to foreign trade all at once.

Instead of saying that globalization is a fact, that it's inevitable, we've also got to demonstrate that while the growing interdependence of the world economy is indeed a fact, it's not uncontrollable.

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.

Nearly every one of the foreign financial crises of recent decades has led to an increase in the U. S. trade deficit.

The countries of the Middle East have been losers in the age of globalization, out of step in an age of free markets, free trade, and democratic politics.

The economy controls the politicians far more than the politicians control the economy.

In the field of economy, for instance, we … members of the developing world follow the currents of globalization, with conditions set by the rich countries, and at a speed dictated without our slightest input.

It’s no surprise that a global economy creates a global class conflict…. All markets create classes and class conflicts.

We are in a global competitive world. And in the future it will be even more, and more, and more global.

A liberal economy doesn’t mean opening wide the doors for imports.

Although globalization is inexorable, its benefits are not.

The developing countries are scared out of their wits now, because they don’t understand what they’re being forced to sign. The agreements are going way outside the trade issues and involve a helluva lot of things like your access to oil, your access to intellectual property and capital controls…. When I looked through the investment agreements, it was worse than reading my insurance policy for the fine print. I couldn’t make anything out of it, and I’m a reasonably informed person, a pretty smart economist as they go.

Driven by globalization and technology our country and our economy is becoming different every day.

We can’t influence other countries’ decisions if we send them a message that we’re backing away from trade.

The forces of global integration are a great tide, inexorably wearing away the established order of things.

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.

There isn’t that much that Washington can do to effect the economy.

Local and national politics have now become irretrievably global because their economies are locked into the global system.

No nation can control its own destiny. They are played off against each other in the global economy.