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"The E.U. imports more agricultural goods from developing countries around the world than does the U.S., Canada and Japan, combined."
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"Our "Make in India" initiative is not intended for only manufacturing for the domestic market or import substitution. It is as much about making world-class products and services for the whole globe."

"Capitalism without Bankruptcy is like Catholicism without Hell."

"Employment is the biggest form of slavery."

"Civilization transformed man from a food gatherer to a gatherer of pieces of paper: diplomas, employment contracts, money, etc."

"CAPITALISM: If everything worked without need of repair, upgrade or replacement, then peaceful minds and prosperity would prevail among the masses rather than just the few who control markets."

"The ways by which you may get your money almost without exception lead downward. To have done anything by which you earn money 'merely' is to be truly idle or worse. If the labourer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.. If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure that for me there would be nothing left worth living for.. You must get your living by loving."

"Money is representative, and follows the nature and fortunes of the owner...The farmer is covetous of his dollar, and with reason. It is no waif to him. He knows how many strokes of labor it represents. His bones ache with the days' work that earned it. He knows how much land it represents - how much rain, frost and sunshine. He knows that, in the dollar, he gives you so much discretion and patience, so much hoeing and threshing. Try to lift his dollar; you must lift all that weight. In the city, where money follows the skit of a pen or a lucky rise in exchange, it comes to be looked on as light."
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"The economy is not an abstraction. The economy consists of people, and it will only grow if people feel secure and are reasonably free."

"But our system of regulation must keep up with this. If it fails to keep up, it will hold back economic expansion. We need financial market regulation that works at national and European level."

"European investment in Texas alone exceeds all U.S. investment in China and Japan put together."

"It is not viable for one country to demand a right to increase and upgrade its nuclear weapons capabilities while asking others to eliminate theirs."

"States can be deterred by the fear of retaliation; non-state organisations cannot by deterred at all."

"Indeed, American companies make three times as much profits from their investment in one E.U. country, Ireland, than they do from all their investments in China."

"The E.U. is more than just a trade organization or a common market; it is a guarantee of democracy, freedom, justice, and human rights. Nations cannot stay in the E.U. if they do not respect these guarantees."

"We can demonstrate, by our own example, how E.U. freedoms, including the freedom of nationals of other E.U. countries to come and work here, has enabled us to expand our economy."

"If the EU and the US can cooperate successfully on regulating financial markets, everyone else will follow."

"U.S. companies earn more from their investments in the EU than in the rest of the world combined."
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