20th century Quote by William J. Clinton

You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.

— Wayne Swan

We have to recognize that the reason that the global order that we've enjoyed and almost take for granted over the last several years…

— Condoleezza Rice

“Eventually, however, the fact that many once-poor places like Hong Kong, South Korea, and Singapore achieved prosperity through freer international trade and investment became…

— Thomas Sowell

If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the…

— David Korten

The fact is that during the post-1989 heyday of globalization optimism, political and business elites did not think enough about the prospect - plainly…

— Arancha Gonzalez

What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power…

— Hans Rosling

Where the foreign exchange is not available, we are cutting down our operations. For example, we had a vegetable oil refinery; we have shut…

— Aliko Dangote

We had much freer trade in the 19th century. We have much less globalization now than we did then.

— Milton Friedman

Making the most of global trade opportunities does not mean transitioning to a low-tax, deregulatory, 'Bargain Basement' economy. It means developing a robust Industrial…

— Barry Gardiner

There are people who just haven't done as well in a globalized economy.

— Chris Alexander

Moreover, for decades we have been prone to far greater swings in the economic cycle than our continental counterparts. It has been boom and…

— Tony Blair

I think that over the last few decades, we have seen better economic outcomes than in the past.

— Martin Feldstein