Import Dependence Quotes

Our strategy should be based on indigenisation and import substitution. The government must provide opportunities for domestic companies to participate in sectors in which the country continues to depend on imports.

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

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.

The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure.

You cannot buy an American telephone, TV set or VCR. This is a part of America that has gone abroad and will never come back again.

Wee must ever observe this rule; to sell more to strangers yearly than wee consume of theirs in value

As the U.S. is import-dependent, this will translate into higher domestic prices.

I have worked out that I am virtually Chinese, because everything I own is from China.

Americans like buying American vs. buying from Chavez or buying from the Middle East.

There are people with vested interest who do not want us to reform our energy sector so that we remain dependent on imports. All reform moves are resisted. Bureaucrats are hesitant to take bold decisions.

Despite the vast expanse of shoreline in this country, more than 90 percent of the seafood Americans eat is imported.

70 percent of India's imports of oil and oil products are imported from abroad. There is uncertainty about supply. There is uncertainty about prices. And that hurts India's development.