Chrystia Freeland

I know Russia well.

— Chrystia Freeland

Assad is not the greatest ally to have.

— Chrystia Freeland

In a globalized economy, jobs no longer need a passport, but workers do.

— Chrystia Freeland

There are no bad seats at the cabinet table.

— Chrystia Freeland

I really believe in hoping for the best and preparing for the worst.

— Chrystia Freeland

In practice, getting rid of crony capitalism is incredibly difficult.

— Chrystia Freeland

In America, we have equated personal business success with public virtue.

— Chrystia Freeland

I have always liked hanging out with people and talking to people.

— Chrystia Freeland

People don't just want to be rich and successful, they want to be good.

— Chrystia Freeland

Social media now make it easier to organize protest movements, even - or perhaps especially - in authoritarian regimes.

— Chrystia Freeland

The irony of the political rise of the plutocrats is that, like Venice's oligarchs, they threaten the system that created them.

— Chrystia Freeland

I am a very strong supporter of our government's view that it is important to engage with all countries around the world…

— Chrystia Freeland

The triumph of economic liberalization has coincided with a sharp increase in income inequality.

— Chrystia Freeland

We in Canada are not going to say Muslims are worse than Christians or are worse than Jews or are worse than…

— Chrystia Freeland

Worrying about the poor is one thing. To contend that equality is necessary for growth is an altogether different and more radical…

— Chrystia Freeland

I think of myself as a Russophile. I speak the language and studied the nation's literature and history in college.

— Chrystia Freeland

Reagan's legacy is so powerful because he identified the state as the central issue in American politics.

— Chrystia Freeland

Our light-speed, globally connected economy has led to the rise of a new super-elite that consists, to a notable degree, of first-…

— Chrystia Freeland

Urbanites may picture farmers as hip heritage-pig breeders returning to the land, or a struggling rural underclass waging a doomed battle to…

— Chrystia Freeland

Talking about income inequality, even if you're not on the Forbes 400 list, can make us feel uncomfortable. It feels less positive,…

— Chrystia Freeland

Western investment is usually assumed to walk hand-in-hand with the democratic values of its home countries, and indeed, opening an economy to…

— Chrystia Freeland

Our battle over the size of the state overlooks a problem that is just as important and that may be easier to…

— Chrystia Freeland

A general charge of crony capitalism is easy to make. But dividing the 'bad' crony capitalists from the 'good' innovative entrepreneurs is…

— Chrystia Freeland

Individual nations have offered their own contributions to income inequality - financial deregulation and upper-bracket tax cuts in the United States; insider…

— Chrystia Freeland

I do think that there is both a very powerful sense of entitlement and a kind of bubble of wealth which makes…

— Chrystia Freeland

My late mother moved back to her parents' homeland in the 1990s when Ukraine and Russia, along with the thirteen other former…

— Chrystia Freeland

The hollowing out of the middle class. That's not just about capitalism or the structure of taxation. That is also about the…

— Chrystia Freeland

“A 2011 OECD report showed that, over the past three decades, in Sweden, Finland, Germany, Israel, and New Zealand--all countries that have…

— Chrystia Freeland

When I was a kid in junior high, I had an assignment to discuss how to rescue poor people in India. I…

— Chrystia Freeland

Twitter-lutionaries are good at toppling regimes, but in the Mideast and North Africa, they're losing out to the Islamists, who've built protest…

— Chrystia Freeland

I see social mobility and equality of opportunity as really successful Canadian values.

— Chrystia Freeland

The chief job of foreign policy today is helping to figure out the rules for the global economy and defending each nation's…

— Chrystia Freeland

Plutocrats worldwide have readily understood the advantages of evading the burdens of the nation-state.

— Chrystia Freeland

We recognize that NAFTA is a three-country agreement, and we need a three-country negotiation.

— Chrystia Freeland

Fancy GPS systems and space-age tractors are what most excite the farmers I know and astound their city friends.

— Chrystia Freeland

What is interesting is that, although it is framed as a war between the elites and Main Street, the Tea Party is…

— Chrystia Freeland

Slavery is America's original sin and was the great global injustice of that age.

— Chrystia Freeland

My respect for politicians has increased. It's hard work - even hard physical work.

— Chrystia Freeland

If you believe in democracy, than you can't trash it by being cynical about the people who do democracy: the politicians.

— Chrystia Freeland

Sometimes who is going to be taking care of all of my kids on any given day is more complicated than any…

— Chrystia Freeland