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"So the American economy needs the world, and the world needs the American economy."
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"Most agree, whatever their party political position, that the West can and should open its agricultural markets more fully to the products of the poorer countries of the globe. They are agricultural societies that need our markets more than our charity."
"It says something about this new global economy that USA Today now reports every morning on the day's events in Asian markets."
"In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies."
"Russia should support globalization. The Internet can develop in Russia in a very speedy way."
"We may freak out globally, but we suffer locally."
"The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations to cheaper locations overseas."
"The world is getting so small. Young people are mobile; they want to travel around the world. When you travel around the world, you exchange culture, you want to make friends, you want to exchange things."
"When you live in the United States, with the roar of the free market, the roar of this huge military power, the roar of being at the heart of empire, it's hard to hear the whispering of the rest of the world. And I think many US citizens want to. I don't think that all of them necessarily are co-conspirators in this concept of empire. And those who are not, need to listen to other stories in the world - other voices, other people."
"Contagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it's a phenomenon of globalization."
"Globalization means standardization. The very rich and the very poor must want the same things, but only the rich can have them."
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"We have seen a strong increase in oil prices and up to this year we see that the world has been able to absorb that."
"And then you might decide that the country can just spend maybe years or decades to regain that credit, or maybe give that county the support, the financial support that the market is not willing not do."
"I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty."
"We believe that the Federal Reserve has to carry on with a progressive increase in interest rates as a consequence of the American economy."
"We have believed for many years, much earlier than anyone else was talking about this issue, that it was in the interest of China to evolve to a more flexible exchange rate system."
"We would certainly encourage the Italian government to put forward an ambitious agenda of reform."
"Most cases, I would say, in a huge amount of cases, countries that have worked with us and have used our financial facilities have come out quick... more quickly and in a better shape from a crisis than would have come out otherwise."
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