Economic Integration Quotes

• The establishment of free trade agreements can be a critical and progressive step towards greater economic integration, and continues to become more valuable in an increasingly global world.

  Dan Kildee

  Agreement, World, Steps

  "The U.S. Can’t Afford to Include Japan in the TPP" by Dan Kildee, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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• For the first time ever we are capable of removing abject poverty, illiteracy and the diseases of poverty from the human condition. The current intensification of global economic integration has demonstrated that there is enough knowledge, technology and capital to bring development to all the people of the world.

  Clare Short

  Technology, People, Development

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• At a time when the European project is facing challenges, it's especially important to show the benefits of economic integration by continuing to invest in our people and working to reduce inequality, both within and across our countries.

  Barack Obama

  Country, People, Challenges

  "Read President Obama's Comments Urging Donald Trump to Stand Up to Russia". time.com. November 17, 2016.

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• The idea of African brotherhood is often just a cover-up for laziness. We must see what is achievable in our circumstances and evaluate all decisions. In terms of regional economic integration, sentimentality is not enough. We really have to be frank and honest.

  Benjamin Mkapa

  Ideas, Decision, Brotherhood

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• Some even believe we (the Rockefeller family) are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.

  David Rockefeller

  Family, Believe, Evil Government

  David Rockefeller (2011). “Memoirs”, p.368, Random House

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• What we should be doing in the EU as a whole is more economic integration in the single market, rather than less.

  Nick Clegg

  Should, Whole, Economic

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• Over the past eight years, the United States has worked hard to deepen partnerships across the region and across South-east Asia in particular. We're now a part of the East Asia Summit and we have a strategic partnership with Asean. At the US-Asean Leaders Summit I hosted earlier this year in Sunnylands, California, we agreed to a set of principles that will shape the future peace and prosperity of the region, from promoting innovation and furthering economic integration to addressing transnational challenges like global health security and climate change.

  Barack Obama

  Past, Eight, Years

  Source: www.straitstimes.com

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• Well, as I said, you know the issue of Greek debt, they've grasped the principle of debt reduction. I think most people would argue that probably more needs to be done on that front, and they've just begun to take the first steps to accepting that there's going to have to be much closer economic integration in Europe.

  Vince Cable

  Thinking, Europe, Issues

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• The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor, which privileges the rights of investors and lenders, those of people being incidental. In accord with this usage, those who favor a different form of international integration, which privileges the rights of human beings, become "anti-globalist."

  Noam Chomsky

  Rights, People, Favors

  Interview with Sniježana Matejčić, June 2005.

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