Global Quote by Azim Premji

In the '80s and '90s we started to have economic problems because society became more conservative. So we didn't have the wherewithal for expanding…

— Hugh Hefner

The international institutions go around the world preaching liberalization, and the developing countries see that means open up your markets to our commodities, but…

— Joseph Stiglitz

The global policy shift toward neo-liberalism that took place during the 1980s and 1990s was supposed, according to its proponents, to bring a convergence…

— Noreena Hertz

Whatever market for manufactured goods emerged in colonial and dependent countries did not become the "eternal market" of these countries. Thrown wide open by…

— Paul A. Baran

Trade liberalization can be contagious, and the opening of markets regionally can spark progress multilaterally as well.

— Roberto Azevedo

The notion dies hard that in some sort of way exports are patriotic but imports are immoral.

— David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech

During the boom years of the 1990s, globalization emerged as the most significant development in our national life. With NAFTA and the Internet and…

— Noah Feldman

The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country.

— George W. Bush

It was good to launch the economy in the '50s. Japan did this; China did this; even South Korea did this. All the East…

— Jairam Ramesh

I certainly believe that we gain through open trade and liberalisation.

— Peter Mandelson

It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.

— Oliver Stone

I'm not so sure we've influenced the general market. But I'm not sure we're trying to do that.

— Linda Johnson Rice