Around Quote by David Starkey

France and Germany have the manufacturing and skill base which is useful to us. France is our dependable strategic partner.

— Narendra Modi

France desperately needs to work on its competitiveness and attractiveness.

— Alain Dehaze

With their endless vacations and pint-sized workweeks, Europe can't produce enough of anything - including more Europeans - to save themselves from doom. So…

— Denis Boyles

We have to diversify our economy. We have to create jobs. We have to focus on education, more training programmes.

— Ali Bongo Ondimba

We don`t have a manufacturing base. We don`t have a middle-class jobs growing at all. All we have is a few rich people and…

— Chris Hayes

Low-wage jobs have gone offshore. We need to innovate to stay competitive.

— Jeanne Shaheen

“France had the intellectual foundations for modern industry without the commercial and financial complements.”

— Thomas Sowell

I really believe in U.S. manufacturing and U.S. exports, but we have to have a level playing field.

— Bill Foster

We need an economy that fosters and encourages competition and innovation.

— John Hickenlooper

We also have to match the skills with the needs of the economy... I think we are losing the plot because we are continuing…

— Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

We have to walk on two legs. We have to create conditions in which manufacturing and services - the economy outside agriculture - move…

— Manmohan Singh

I believe we can do much more to adapt to the structural changes in the global economy, get high-end manufacturing back here, set up…

— William J. Clinton